Re: [OT] Digital camera recommendation - for kids!

["Paul" <paul.britton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I bought my 7 yr old daughter a Vivitar Vivicam 3350 from Asda,for the
princely sum of £9.99! She is extremely pleased with it.
It is VGA (640x480) resolution, with 8MB internal memory.

I have heard good things about the 20 quid(ish) ones from Tesco's, not sure
of the spec, but I know they take SD cards, and I know of one that has
survived a drop test from 2000feet as part of a rocket payload that had a
chute deployment failure!!

HTH

PaulB



----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon McCaughey" <simonmcc@xxxxxxx>
To: "UK Home Automation List" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 8:50 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Digital camera recommendation - for kids!


I am trying to buy a digital camera for my 7year olds birthday, and I
am overwhelmed by the array available.

My criteria :
- cheap  (discontinued is good - we like eBay)
- small   (something small enough to pop into his pocket)
- LCD viewfinder (optional..)

He has one of those tiny el-cheapo cameras at the minute, you know the
VGA type of ones, and he loves it - I'm really wondering if I'd be
better buying a ~£20 one of those, so that if it breaks / gets lost
then it is easily replaced. Or should I go ~£60-80 and get a
reasonable 4MP camera....?

Any suggestions?

thanks

Simon