We have a new camera in the house…

greenpeagreenpea Registered Users Posts: 880 Major grins
edited December 14, 2006 in The Big Picture
My mother in law is heading out of town for the holidays and so she gave my 3 year old daughter her Christmas present early. The present was a new camera! I have to admit, I was surprised to find out that Fisher Price makes cameras. I like the concept though: super durable, super easy to use, big pink plastic camera, with LCD and super high res 640 X 480 images!

Here’s the camera she got

I’m sitting at work right now, and I can’t wait to get home and see what soft of things a 3 year old takes pictures of!
Andrew
initialphotography.smugmug.com

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange

Comments

  • k2c1959k2c1959 Registered Users Posts: 123 Major grins
    edited December 13, 2006
    camera
    greenpea wrote:
    My mother in law is heading out of town for the holidays and so she gave my 3 year old daughter her Christmas present early. The present was a new camera! I have to admit, I was surprised to find out that Fisher Price makes cameras. I like the concept though: super durable, super easy to use, big pink plastic camera, with LCD and super high res 640 X 480 images!

    Here’s the camera she got

    I’m sitting at work right now, and I can’t wait to get home and see what soft of things a 3 year old takes pictures of!
    you may be surprised what these little tykes will take. i bought my grandaughter a 4mp ps kodak camera when she was 2, she is almost 5 now and every weekend she is at my house, she fills the memory card (512gb) taking pics. she actually has taken some really good candid shots. i think you may be surprised. just let her have total control and if she is like my grandbaby,she will surprise you when you least expect it...lol..rolleyes1.gif
    Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away......

    " I wasn't born in Oklahoma, but I got here as fast as I could! "


    http://k2c-ridge.smugmug.com/
    Member NAPP
  • JimMJimM Registered Users Posts: 1,389 Major grins
    edited December 13, 2006
    We bought the Fisher Price one for my 4 year old nephew. Now he'll be just like Uncle Jim! I am very excited to give it to him!
    Cameras: >(2) Canon 20D .Canon 20D/grip >Canon S200 (p&s)
    Glass: >Sigma 17-35mm,f2.8-4 DG >Tamron 28-75mm,f2.8 >Canon 100mm 2.8 Macro >Canon 70-200mm,f2.8L IS >Canon 200mm,f2.8L
    Flash: >550EX >Sigma EF-500 DG Super >studio strobes

    Sites: Jim Mitte Photography - Livingston Sports Photos - Brighton Football Photos
  • StormdancingStormdancing Registered Users Posts: 917 Major grins
    edited December 13, 2006
    JimM wrote:
    We bought the Fisher Price one for my 4 year old nephew. Now he'll be just like Uncle Jim! I am very excited to give it to him!
    Not to horn in on your thread.
    This photo was taken by my then 3 year old son. I cleaned up my Kodak DC200 - a whopping 1 mp that I bought in 1998. Paid a fortune for that puppy. He's all excited with his new camera and says "Daddy Look What I Got!!!!!!!!!!!" Snap
    73610052-M.jpg

    Pretty good for a 3 year old. Laughing.gif
    Never mind the goofy Daddy.....
    Dana
    ** Feel free to edit my photos if you see room for improvement.**
    Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if
    no birds sang there except those that sang best.
    ~Henry Van Dyke
  • greenpeagreenpea Registered Users Posts: 880 Major grins
    edited December 14, 2006
    Stormdancing wrote:
    Pretty good for a 3 year old. Laughing.gif
    Never mind the goofy Daddy.....

    I use to have a Kodak DC260 that I also paid a fortune for, although that ended up with a friend. This Fisher Price camera isn't quite 1mp, but its built like a pink tank, and very easy to use. The lens is fixed at f/2.8 iso 60, it says in the manual that the lens is 4.8mm (I doubt that though).

    I think some of my daughters best work were the pictures of her feet from her car seat...

    116750864-L.jpg
    Andrew
    initialphotography.smugmug.com

    "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange
  • StormdancingStormdancing Registered Users Posts: 917 Major grins
    edited December 14, 2006
    Haha that's cute! Austin has taken a lot of those kind of pictures. He's 4 now and pretty well has the hang of getting things in the picture. Laughing.gif Question is what are those things??????
    We will be taking a trip to Florida over the holidays and he's taking his camera.

    Man that DC200, I thought I was hot back then. Changed my life. Married my two favorite hobbies - photography and the computer. Ooooo I was in heaven and never looked back. My poor Canon 35mm.
    Dana
    ** Feel free to edit my photos if you see room for improvement.**
    Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if
    no birds sang there except those that sang best.
    ~Henry Van Dyke
  • mr peasmr peas Registered Users Posts: 1,369 Major grins
    edited December 14, 2006
    Hah. at least @ around 1MP, if she takes millions of photos, it wont take up much room in your puter!

    I didnteven know FS made cameras, how much do they run for?
    I bet they'd make like photos like a digital-Holga.
  • dragon300zxdragon300zx Registered Users Posts: 2,575 Major grins
    edited December 14, 2006
    mr peas wrote:
    I didnteven know FS made cameras, how much do they run for?

    Retail is $70 us MSRP.
    Everyone Has A Photographic Memory. Some Just Do Not Have Film.
    www.zxstudios.com
    http://creativedragonstudios.smugmug.com
  • greenpeagreenpea Registered Users Posts: 880 Major grins
    edited December 14, 2006
    mr peas wrote:
    Hah. at least @ around 1MP, if she takes millions of photos, it wont take up much room in your puter!

    I didnteven know FS made cameras, how much do they run for?
    I bet they'd make like photos like a digital-Holga.

    My daughter now has her own section on my smugmug site, so she can take as many pics as she wants! :D

    It is kind of a digital holga, although much sturdier. The camera is clearly built for abuse and ease of use, not for image quality (think basic camera-phone pics). On the Fisher Price web site the camera lists for $70, however my mother in law got it on eBay. I figure for $70 I could have gotten her a pretty nice p&s, but then she wouldn't have used it because it wouldn't have been so easy to use and it wouldn't have been pink.

    Tonight (if weather permits) my daughter and I are going to go out and take pictures of Christmas lights together.
    Andrew
    initialphotography.smugmug.com

    "The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange
  • StormdancingStormdancing Registered Users Posts: 917 Major grins
    edited December 14, 2006
    Too bad you can't take a 3rd person so they could get a shot of the two of you getting a shot of the lights. That would be cute.
    Dana
    ** Feel free to edit my photos if you see room for improvement.**
    Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if
    no birds sang there except those that sang best.
    ~Henry Van Dyke
Sign In or Register to comment.