Give any child a camera and they will love snapping dozens of pictures of anything and everything, because children are naturally curious and creative.
You can now introduce your child to photography with the latest generation of kids digital cameras. These cameras are specially designed for little fingers and come with a host of technologies, yet are still simple and fun to use.
My 7 year old daughter loves taking her digital camera with her wherever she goes, and whether she takes good or bad photographs doesn’t matter to her, as long she is having fun.
Kids digital cameras are available in a variety of vivid and more subdued colors depending on the child’s age. Manufactures are allowing kids as young as three, to enter the world of the digital age with their fantastic offerings.
If it is your childs first camera, realize that durability is really important as they will carry it around everywhere, and the camera is going to be dropped on hard and soft flooring. But don’t worry as most kids digital cameras are designed to be hard wearing and are often waterproof.
Kids digital cameras are available at various prices, which are targeted at different age groups. As your child grows they can start to transition from a kids camera to more sophisticated model.
Okay so where do you start, which digital camera is best for your child?
To be honest there aren’t that many good digital cameras for kids, many of them on the market are very poor quality so watch out! Below are the top 3 kids digital cameras which will go down a treat with your kids this Christmas.
1. Vtech Kidizoom Plus digital camera 
(for ages 3 – 7) is very rugged and easy to use, with grips on the sides and large buttons which are great for kiddies little fingers and hands. The Vtech Kidizoom Plus camera has a 1.8 inch color screen, and a two eye viewer for taking photos.
What is really great about this camera is that not only can kids take photos, but also shoot video footage and the camera includes five challenging and fun games. The camera has a built in flash, which makes it easier for your child to take well lite pictures. The Vtech Kidizoom Plus image resolution is only 0.3 megapixels, which means the picture quality is not the best. But this camera is aimed at mini photographers between the age of 3 and 7, and for them its more than enough for exercising their creative urges, and documenting the wonders of everyday life. The camera has 256MB of built-in memory allowing for around 500+ photos or ten+ minutes of video.
One great feature that your child will enjoy is that they can connect the camera directly to the TV, using the included A/V cable which will enable them to view their movies and photos on the big screen.
As you can see from the picture above, the camera comes in blue and pink.
This kids digital compact cameras is highly recommend, click here for more information.
2. The Fisher-Price Kid-Tough Digital Camera (for ages 3-7 y), has been one of the best selling kids digital cameras for sometime. It’s tough, waterproof, has big rubberized grips and large buttons perfect for little hands. When I say waterproof, I mean that it can be be dropped in up to three feet of water for 30 minutes, and still come out ready to snap away.
This camera will survive drops, falls, throws, and every other sort of kid damage.
When taking pictures kids can either use the live view on the 1.5-inch color LCD preview screen, or look through the two-eye viewer.
The Fisher-Price Kid-Tough Digital camera has a built in 64 MB memory chip, which will store up to 500 pictures. If your child wants to take more photos then a SD card can be inserted.
Two image resolution settings, 0.3 and 1.3 interpolated mega pixels let the kids take plenty of pictures, and make 4 x 6-inch prints. Like the Vtech Kidizoom Plus camera the image quality is not the best, but as I mentioned earlier this camera is aimed at mini photographers between the age of 3 and 7, and for them it’s more than enough. The Fisher Price Kids Tough Digital camera comes in Blue and Pink.
Unfortunately the kids cannot view their photos on the TV like the Vtech Kidizoom Plus camera, but the kids can still easily transfer the photos to a computer via the supplied USB cable. Another downfall is that this camera eats the batteries, so rechargeable are advised.
It’s a great camera but I do prefer the Vtech Kidizoom Plus camera, as it has better features than the Fisher Price camera.
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3. Nikon Coolpix L19 8MB digital camera can be used by children 8 years old and over, and is one of the best selling 8MB cameras on the market. Nikon have always been renowned for quality, and the Coolpix L19 is no different. This is the camera that my daughter uses, and even though she is only 7, takes some great photos with it. However, I would really only recommend children 8 years old and over using this camera, if they have never used one before. This camera is light, very easy to use and the quality of the pictures are excellent.
The Nikon Coolpix L19 has some great features including motion detection, which automatically detects subject movement and adjusts the shutter speed and ISO to compensate for camera shake, and minimize image blur. The Nikon Coolpix L19 will also automatically fix red eye, has a built in flash, will detect faces then fire the shutter when your subject smiles, it will even warn you if they blink. The camera has a bright 2.7 inch led screen at the back. If the budding photographer wants to be more creative, then the Coolpix L19 has many other exposure modes including Landscape, Portrait mode, and Close-up to name a few. At the moment my daughter just leaves it on the auto mode, which means all she has to think about are which pictures she wants to take.
Below are more features of the Nikon Coolpix L19:
* 8.0-megapixel resolution for photo-quality prints up to 16 x 20 inches
* 3.6x optical Zoom-Nikkor glass lens
* 2.7-inch high-resolution LCD screen
* Capture images to SD/SDHC memory cards (not included)
The Nikon Coolpix L19 is the next step up from the cameras above, and will take kids images to another level. Whether your child is 8 or 12 years old, they will love messing about with this camera.
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