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Do not buy and especially do not buy from Mead Enterprises]. I don't usually write negative reviews for products unless they really stink. First off, it doesn't come with a memory card which, for almost $100.00, it should. I now have to take her memory card out of her camera, put it in my digital camera to upload and then put her memory card back her in her camera. They sell inferior products but yet we have to pay a re-stocking fee. Not to mention my daughter's disappointment that the camera never worked right. It will not upload to a computer via usb cable, not sure why. She takes hundreds of pictures (now that we have the memory card), but YOU CAN'T UPLOAD THEM.
WELL, this really STINKS. Anyway, nuff said. I have already filed a claim with Amazon for this piece of garbage. What's most annoying is that my daughter loves this camera (she got for Christmas). As I have stated, I have already filed a claim, but I am going so far as to contact Fisher Price directly as I am that annoyed and I will also discuss this merchant's restocking fee of %20.
Take it from me -- you'll have buyer's remorse if you shell out for this complete waste of money. I bought this camera for my child over two years ago and am STUNNED that this product is still on the market. Seriously, you can not make out a thing once you've snapped a pic. You'd end up keeping the same number of photos: NONE (since you can't make out a thing on the Kid Tough one) and it would be a whole lot cheaper. This camera is truly a worthless piece of garbage. I agree with all the other reviewers who say that durability is meaningless when the photos this camera produces are as foggy as pea soup. You might as well take a kleenex box, cut a hole in it and paint it pink.
The camera did satisfy my son who just loves to take picture after picture, with no delay. All in all, this is a fun toy, but I'm glad that I received it as a gift instead of shelling out my own money. However, he still prefers to use my camera over his. Your child can take pictures by looking through the eyepiece or on the screen (the screen is like an adults' screen where you see the image as you are taking the pic); however, the image is very grainy unless you are very close to the object. It also eliminates the finger in the way problem.
We received this as a gift, so now I can answer my own questions. All of the pictures can be deleted very easily, so if your child is attached to any particular pics, download them as soon as possible. He doesn't really care much about image quality. I tried buying him an older digital camera, but it was way too heavy, so he won't use it. When looking for a camera for my 3-yr-old, I could not find any entries that answered the questions that I had.
The same goes for playing the pictures back -- very grainy unless close-up. This camera is very light weight and easy for little hands to hold.
You have to constantly buy batteries. But my 4 year old daughter likes it and feels independent with it, so it serves its purpose. The pictures comes out blurry and it take 4 AAA batteries. I will probably in a year spend more on batteries than i did for the camera itself.
It might as well just be a block of wood painted to look like a camera. Most the time it's hard to even tell what she took a picture of. This camera is very durable, but the pictures are so bad who cares. My daughter desperately tries to make use of it, but gets depressed every time she sees what kind of pictures it actually produces. I guess Fisher Price put so much effort into making it tough they forgot that it was actually supposed to function as a camera.
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