Best Digital Camera for a 3 Year Old?

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My quite precocious three year old daughter has become interested in
taking photographs. I am willing to experiment and get her a digital
camera of her own (I shoot film, but for obvious reasons feel she
should not). Does anyone know of a digital camera that is very easy to
use, maybe with nothing more than a viewfinder and a big button. Or
possibly with the ability to set it on 'super-auto' mode. The Barbie
camera requires a serial port which my computer does not have, and it
looks particularly lousy. I'm perfectly willing to spend a few hundred
bucks, and would buy one used if it has what I'm looking for.

Any advice? Thanks

-Josh

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On 19 Jul 2005 13:16:35 -0700, "Josh" <jayelwin@gmail.com> wrote:

>My quite precocious three year old daughter has become interested in
>taking photographs. I am willing to experiment and get her a digital
>camera of her own (I shoot film, but for obvious reasons feel she
>should not). Does anyone know of a digital camera that is very easy to
>use, maybe with nothing more than a viewfinder and a big button. Or
>possibly with the ability to set it on 'super-auto' mode. The Barbie
>camera requires a serial port which my computer does not have, and it
>looks particularly lousy. I'm perfectly willing to spend a few hundred
>bucks, and would buy one used if it has what I'm looking for.
>
>Any advice? Thanks
>

You could pick up a second hand digital camera, say, around 1.3 mega pixels, for around $30 these days.

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Maybe something like this
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.ht [...] v_XSG10001

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Josh wrote:
> My quite precocious three year old daughter has become interested in
> taking photographs. I am willing to experiment and get her a digital
> camera of her own (I shoot film, but for obvious reasons feel she
> should not). Does anyone know of a digital camera that is very easy to
> use, maybe with nothing more than a viewfinder and a big button. Or
> possibly with the ability to set it on 'super-auto' mode. The Barbie
> camera requires a serial port which my computer does not have, and it
> looks particularly lousy. I'm perfectly willing to spend a few hundred
> bucks, and would buy one used if it has what I'm looking for.
>
> Any advice? Thanks
>
> -Josh

I started my kids (5 and 8 years old now) with a few disposable cameras
- $4 for each camera and $4 for developing. One kid enjoyed it, and now
has a cheap Kodak CX7300 3 Mpixel fixed focus which she loves and uses
regularly. The other didn't maintain an interest and now is on to other
things - and I'm only out $20 to find this out.

At 3 years old, I'd kind of wonder whether the interest is less in
photography and more in doing what her parents are doing.... but hey,
it's your nickle....

ECM

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Josh wrote:
> My quite precocious three year old daughter has become interested in
> taking photographs. I am willing to experiment and get her a digital
> camera of her own (I shoot film, but for obvious reasons feel she
> should not). Does anyone know of a digital camera that is very easy to
> use, maybe with nothing more than a viewfinder and a big button. Or
> possibly with the ability to set it on 'super-auto' mode. The Barbie
> camera requires a serial port which my computer does not have, and it
> looks particularly lousy. I'm perfectly willing to spend a few hundred
> bucks, and would buy one used if it has what I'm looking for.
>
> Any advice? Thanks
>
> -Josh
>

You should be able to find a simple 2or 3mp camera that can use AA
batteries, and take pretty good pictures for about $50. Suggest Kodak
for the beginner.


--
Ron Hunter rphunter@charter.net

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"Josh" <jayelwin@gmail.com> wrote in news:1121804195.869326.295670
@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

> My quite precocious three year old daughter has become interested in
> taking photographs. I am willing to experiment and get her a digital
> camera of her own (I shoot film, but for obvious reasons feel she
> should not). Does anyone know of a digital camera that is very easy to
> use, maybe with nothing more than a viewfinder and a big button. Or
> possibly with the ability to set it on 'super-auto' mode. The Barbie
> camera requires a serial port which my computer does not have, and it
> looks particularly lousy. I'm perfectly willing to spend a few hundred
> bucks, and would buy one used if it has what I'm looking for.
>
> Any advice? Thanks
>
> -Josh
>


I have an older Kodak DX3500 that I have turned my 3yr old nephew loose
with several times. He has a blast and actually gets a few good photos.
The key here is it is a very siple point and shoot. No zoom, fixed focus
2.2 megapexel camera.

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I bet it was a Kodak Pocket Instamatic 20 ???
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> Mike wrote:
> > I have an older Kodak DX3500 that I have turned my 3yr old nephew loose
> >with several times. He has a blast and actually gets a few good photos.
> >The key here is it is a very siple point and shoot. No zoom, fixed focus
> >2.2 megapexel camera.
>
> My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic that came as a promotion
> Kodak and Scott paper towels offered around 1972. You got it for about
> $1 shipping, plus several proof-of-purchase things from paper towel
> rolls. It was a very bare-bones Instamatic - but very sturdy and great
> to learn on and see if you even were interested in photography beyond
> the take-pictures-of-family level.
>
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