Buying a digital camera for your kids

John Watson at photodoto.com has a colorful article about buying a digital camera for your kids.

"The bigger problem with the Fisher Price camera and all other “made for kids” cameras is that the actual camera is utter crap (”made for kids” really means “made for landfill”). 640×480 resolution interpolated to 1.3 megapixels gives you images that look vomited rather than photographed."

I have to admit that we bought the Fisher-Price Kids camera for Cole about a year and a half ago. We were interested in seeing things from his point of view. While he has fun taking pictures and having people pose for him from time to time, the actual pictures he takes are barely viewable and are not good enough resolution to print. The article has several affordable recommendations of a number of "real" digital cameras that are suitable for kids (here is the one he picks for his kids).

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(via parenthacks.com)