Product Description

Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital Camera - Blue comes with built-in auto flash, wrist strap, and camera compatible with Windows 2000/ME/XP/VISTA and Macintosh 1.3 interpolated Mega Pixels or 640 x 480 resolution for 4" x 6" prints - WAS just 640 x 480 resolution, 8 MB built-in memory stores up to 60 pictures, which depends on resolution and USB cord for computer connection SD memory card slot for increased storage capacity, SD sold separately.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23052 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Fisher-Price
• Model: L8341
• Released on: 2007-05-24
• Dimensions: 8.46" h x 7.48" w x 3.11" l, 1.21 pounds

Features

• This product is a re-stage of the Kid-Tough Digital Camera J8028.
• 1.6" color LCD preview screen (WAS 1.3") Dual-handle grips Two-eye view finder. Compatible with Mac - Comes with built-in auto flash, wrist strap, and Camera compatible with Windows 2000/ME/XP/VISTA and Macintosh
• 1.3 interpolated Mega Pixels or 640 x 480 resolution for 4" x 6" prints (WAS just 640 x 480 resolution)
• 8 MB built-in memory stores up to 60 pictures (depending on resolution) & USB cord for computer connection
• SD memory card slot for increased storage capacity (SD card sold separately). Do not use "high speed" SD card or SD card with a capacity higher than 1GB.

Amazon.com Product Description
Let your children show you the world through their eyes with the Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital Camera. This innovative toy is a real digital camera designed to be sturdy enough and simple enough for kids as young as three years of age to use. This digital camera is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Children's Technology Review's 2006 Editor's Choice, and the Parents Magazine 2006 Best Toys of the Year.

Simply plug the camera into your computer and download the pictures. View larger.

Fisher Price's kid-tough construction makes this digital camera sturdy. View larger.

Designed for Little Hands
The Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital Camera provides a great outlet for your children's creativity and offers them a fun, simple introduction to both photography and digital technology. Featuring the trademark Fisher Price "kid-tough" construction, this fully functional digital camera is sturdy enough and safe enough for small children. It's also designed to make picture-taking as easy as possible for little ones, with big, easy-to-use control buttons and a two-eye view finder. Dual handgrips make a steady shot easier for little hands to manage. The camera also has a 1.6-inch color LCD display, just like a grown-up's camera, where pictures can be viewed instantly. Your children can take pictures at the park or zoo, or, thanks to the automatic flash, their next party.

Works with your Home Computer
The camera has 8 megabytes of memory, which can store up to 60 pictures. You can purchase larger memory cards to increase the memory. Once your child fills up the memory card, simply plug the camera into your computer and download the pictures for printing or for using in photo art programs. The camera includes 1.3 interpolated megapixels or 640-by-480 resolution for 4-by-6-inch prints. It is compatible with Macintosh and with Windows 2000 or later. The camera requires four AA batteries; it comes with one lithium CR2032 battery.

What's in the Box
Blue camera, USB cord, lithium CR2032 battery, and wrist strap.

From the Manufacturer
This product is a re-stage of the Kid Tough Digital Camera J8028. The Kid Tough Digital Camera is the first preschool appropriate digital camera that is tough and easy enough to stand up to typical, rough preschooler use. The camera has a larger and improved viewing area - now 1.5" color LCD preview screen which allows kids to instantly see the picture they've taken and view or delete previous shots. The camera comes with an improved picture image resolution of 1.3 Mpixel and has the ability to toggle to the original .3 resolution if the ability to hold more images on the on board memory is more important. The camera features dual handle grips which are ergonomic to preschoolers' hands for ease of use and 2-eye viewing that makes it easy for kids to look through the viewfinder. The durable design of the camera protects the camera and screen. The feature set includes: 640 x 480 resolution for quality 4 x 6 prints, 8 Mb built in memory, SD card slot for increased storage capacity, easy navigation menu, USB cord for computer connection, digital camera software CD, built-in flash, and a wrist strap.

Customer Reviews

Worth buying
We bought this without expecting too much (after having problems with a cheaper camera), and this is a good camera for young children 3+

What's good?
- physical Design makes it easy to look through and hold, robust construction,
- Simple contols, kids easily learned the User Interface and how to take photos. Has simple sounds as well that accompony power on/off, shutter
- the one we bought took a standard 128MB SD card which provides heaps of storage for photos of this size
- no PC drivers required - mounts as a standard USB storage device

Needs improvement:
- picture quality - its OK, but very basic. Sort of 1MP phone quality.
- rear display - fairly poor, but workable.
- Some troubles getting it detected by WinXP on our notebook, but with repititon it worked

Overall:
- Great learning toy for the kids to figure out what photography is. They copy what adults do, and this is a great way to learn. They have learnt if you take lots of pictures, you have to sort through them and delete the cruddy ones. How to compose a photo. And they learn about composing photos and what photos look like if you just press the shutter button at any time.

The picture quality is only part of it - it is the overall experience that matters. The simple User Interface and durable design mean that this is a toy that kids should get some life out of. Reccomended (though a higher picture quality version would be nice!).

Note: - there is a high quality mode which needs to be turned on. Press both arrow keys and press the shutter button which turns on a cross hatched pattern symbol in the lower left of the display. Pictures instead of being 640 x 480 are 1280 x 960. I don't know whether this is a higher quality or just interpolated, but it looks worthwhile having.

Great Camera for the Little Ones
After spending a lot of time researching digital cameras for little kids, we decided on the Kid Tough camera. The downside to buying a camera rugged enough for a young child is that the resolutions are terrible. At least the KT camera rates at 1 megapixel, unlike several others that have .3 megapixels which is borderline pointless. Because of the lower resolutions, the pictures are comparable to cell photo photos, but that's been perfectly peachy for us so far.

There is no question that the camera is rugged - it has already been dropped about 20 times and still works like new. Hooking it up to my Mac or my husband's PC has been very easy (although be aware the creativity software is PC only).

Here are the negatives:

1. The flash is way too bright, and it overexposed almost every photo. We fixed this by taking a small square of a paper towel and placing it over the flash with a piece of clear packing tape. It works beautifullly as a diffuser.

2. The delete button is too easy for little kids to hit. In future versions, FP should make it very difficult for little kids to delete pictures. Let mom and dad do the deleting.

3. Would it kill any of these manufacturers to make software Mac compatible?

All in all, I would definitely recommend the camera to any parent looking for a rugged camera for their toddler/young elementary aged kids.

Great camera for little kids
We bought this camera for our son's 3rd birthday. He had an old camera of ours that didn't work so he was excited to have his own, especially since it worked. It's a very cool and simple to use camera. Within about 5 minutes of opening it and looking at it with dad, he understood what the buttons did and was clicking away taking pictures. It's super easy to upload the pictures onto our computer and the picture quality is much better once loaded onto the computer.
Another cool thing (that I didn't notice when I bought it) is the binocular eye piece. I think it would have been hard for him if it wasn't.
This is a great camera - it's very cool to see what he takes pictures of and especially those everyday things that you can now see from a 3-year-old's perspective. If you have a kid who is even a little interested in pictures and photography I think this is a must have!!