Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5 in Toys & Games
• Brand: VTech
• Dimensions: 3.35" h x 2.40" w x 5.32" l, .79 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

Take pictures, make videos and play games on this sleek, easy to use and ultra tough digital camera! Capture images using the viewfinder and flash, preview on the 1.8" colour LCD screen then use the creative workshop to edit photos! Link up to the TV or computer to view and edit photos or watch videos. In-built games can be played on-the-move or via a TV. Interchangeable faceplates included for personalisation. 16 MB memory can be expanded with SD card (sold separately). Includes carry strap, CD-Rom and cables to link to PC and TV.

Suitable for ages 3+

Box Contains

• 1 x VTech Kidizoom digital camera
• 2 x interchangeable faceplates
• 1 x PC installation CD-ROM with additional features in the Photo Editor
• 1 x AV cable
• 1 x USB cable
• 1 x Wrist strap
• User's manual

Customer Reviews

My son loves this camera!
I read the reviews on this camera before buying it and decided that durability and ease of use were more important than picture quality - not least because it was to be a present for my 4yr old, but his 2yr old little brother was bound to use it, so it had to be tough enough to cope with a toddler. We opened and experimented with it before giving it to our son, so we knew how to get decent images (Hold it still, make sure there's plenty of light - natural if possible - and don't get too close), and could coach him.

My son is utterly delighted with it. Both boys have taken decent pictures with it, and my 4yr old was familiar with the main functions within minutes. he can snap away with it and has produced a lovely record of his typical day, and what interests him. He's never had a computer console, so he's just as pleased with the (very basic) games as with the camera.

It is only really camera phone quality, and you get the best results with natural light, but I remember my first camera being much more fiddly to use and giving poorer results. My son is more interested in taking photos and knowing he has them than actually reviewing them so he has yet to notice that I delete the less successful ones!

My only gripe is the batteries. We are using duracell and getting a decent battery life from them, but rechargeable ones would be so much easier (and cheaper) to use. The memory cards are pretty cheap, so it's worth getting one to avoid losing photos when the batteries go.

I wouldn't get one of these for an older child who could be trusted to look after a proper camera, but for a pre-schooler (especially one with younger siblings), it is just the job.

Terrible picture quality. Just buy a real camera!
My five year old daughter is a dab hand at taking photos with our camera and mobile phone. She was very keen on a camera of her own for Christmas and so we picked the Kidizoom and are ever so disappointed with it.

The picture quality is just appalling. Shots are all blurred and tiled. We tried the camera out ourselves but fared no better than our daughter. The cheapest of disposable cameras takes a better picture than this. We have never considered it worth while printing a picture and our daughter has lost interest in the camera.

We contacted V Tech to complain about it and (after two e-mails)they wrote back and said "the camera is not intended to provide the same quality pictures as a commercial digital camera". It is rated at .3 megapixels compared to 5.0 - 8.0 on an adult camera. The point of this camera is its durability. To be fair, V-Tech did offer that we could return the product and obtain credit against another VTech toy.

The price of this camera wasn't that of a cheap junky toy. We expected this camera to actually take photos worth having. Would it cost VTech so much extra to manufacture this camera in such a way that it could take a proper photograph?

And a final minor gripe, although it is called "kidizoom" it has no zoom feature.

A friend's child had a Fisher Price kids camera and its photos are equally poor, so the message has to be to buy the child a real camera when they are old enough not to drop it!

Shockingly bad picture quality
I just bought this for my 2 1/2 year old daughter to take on holiday. It looks solid enough and has some nice features. The first thing you notice though is how slow the screen update is, it looks about 2 frames a second. So even for an adult getting a decent shot is tricky. The pictures themselves are of a quality I've never seen from a digital camera. Something probably on par with the first camera phones in bad light. Pictures are grainy and quite a lot are blurred. If I'd seen the quality of this thing before I'd bought it then I wouldn't have bothered. However, my 2 year old seems to like it.