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First Digital Camera for a Child Hi everyone - I'm looking for recommendations for a first digital camera for a child. She's 8, so I'm looking at point-and-shoots. A zoom would be nice. I know there are some with 10x zooms out there. It should be easy to operate, but maybe with room to grow, but looking for quality as well. Durable as well - as 8-year-olds will tend to drop things. Thanks for all your help! -K
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John C. Schwentner |
Hi, as a dad, I can say with some truthfulness that a 10x zoom is going to be too sensitive for an 8-year-old to hold steady. The more zoom, the more sensitive the camera is to movement. Probably, since it is a first camera for a child, let the money do the shopping. Look for a point-and-shoot type that also is TTL (through the lens focus and view) and you can usually find about a 3x in the hundred dollar range. They are pretty much all automatic, so you won't have to worry about correct exposure and focus. Use the Web search under price, and/or at least 2 megapixel.
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Susan Sande |
Right now the Sony DSC-P52 are on sale in the $129 range. I'd like to suggest it. I bought one for my son (17 at the time) when it first came out. Pretty good optics, small body. Photo quality beat the heck out of the Sony V-1 I bought based on the photos coming out of the 52. (sold the V1 pretty quick). I would not suggest buying less than a 2mp or an off brand. You get what you pay for and if your daughter decides she doesn't want to use it, you might as well have a camera that you can use.
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Robert Brosnan |
I bought my daughter a 2 mp camera for her 9th birthday. It is a Vivitar 3650. I purchased it at Walgreens for under $50 after the rebates. It only has digtal zoom (3X) but it takes good pictures and seems durable. It only has a LCD screen no optical viewfinder. It uses AA batteries (2) and SD memory.It is a good camera to start at a reasonable price from a well known company.
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Robert Brosnan |
I bought my daughter a 2 mp camera for her 9th birthday. It is a Vivitar 3650. I purchased it at Walgreens for under $50 after the rebates. It only has digtal zoom (3X) but it takes good pictures and seems durable. It only has a LCD screen no optical viewfinder. It uses AA batteries (2) and SD memory.It is a good camera to start at a reasonable price from a well known company.
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Robert Brosnan |
I bought my daughter a 2 mp camera for her 9th birthday. It is a Vivitar 3650. I purchased it at Walgreens for under $50 after the rebates. It only has digtal zoom (3X) but it takes good pictures and seems durable. It only has a LCD screen no optical viewfinder. It uses AA batteries (2) and SD memory.It is a good camera to start at a reasonable price from a well known company.
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Robert Brosnan |
I bought my daughter a 2 mp camera for her 9th birthday. It is a Vivitar 3650. I purchased it at Walgreens for under $50 after the rebates. It only has digtal zoom (3X) but it takes good pictures and seems durable. It only has a LCD screen no optical viewfinder. It uses AA batteries (2) and SD memory.It is a good camera to start at a reasonable price from a well known company.
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Scott Pedersen |
No zooms at all. I bought a Dimera a few years ago for 40 bucks new. It has a fixed lens on it and is capable of making small photos you can email. Think it was 600 by 400 pixels something like that. Only control on it was the shutter. And it was kind of large so small hands could handle it easily That would be a perfect kid camera. However it had weird sized and expensive battery in it. Try this. Go to Tiger Direct and look at the under 1MP cameras but find one that takes 2 AA batterys so you can use a charger.
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