Took Arthur and his friend Finlay to the Transport museum. Fantastic. Afterwards kept them entertained by letting them play with my camera. These are some of the shots they took. They had a whale of a time. Why isn't someone making a cheap digital camera for kids? They're great kids products. They get instant results - looking at the pictures they just took, they don't have to peer, one-eyed through a viewfinder (which they find quite hard) and they can take as many as they want without having to worry about paying to get them developed. Wouldn't have to have bags of megapixels, resolution's not a priority, would have to be fairly rugged, wouldn't need zoom and stuff, would have to have an LCD thing. Other than that, should be quite do-able at a reasonable price
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Posted by: Russell Davies | August 31, 2004 at 02:38 AM
Interesting your remark Russel. The other day I was talking with an account about this kidz mobile pack (7-11 years) we're working on and I commented that more than the java games the kids could download, it really would be interesting to focus on the incorporated camera this Nokia/Siemens mobiles have. At this age kids have a tremendously curious and being able to shot pics about everything they find amusing it's a great way of stimulanting their imagination.
Posted by: the hidden persuader | September 03, 2004 at 07:16 PM
Interesting your remark Russel. The other day I was talking with an account about this kidz mobile pack (7-11 years) we're working on and I commented that more than the java games the kids could download, it really would be interesting to focus on the incorporated camera this Nokia/Siemens mobiles have. At this age kids are tremendously curious and being able to shot pics about everything they find amusing it's a great way of stimulanting their imagination.
Posted by: hidden persuader | September 03, 2004 at 07:19 PM
There are some pretty cheap digital cameras around these days.
I remember about 20 years ago watching Tomorrow's World when they showed a video camera for kids that shot film on an audio casette tape. It was only black & white but I got quite excited thinking they'd be in the shops one day. I'm over it now.
Posted by: Gabrielle | September 09, 2004 at 01:23 PM
We just got a new digital camera so I thought it might be a good idea to pass the old one to Olly (6) since he loves taking pictures. It lasted about four minutes and is now in a bowl on the kitchen counter in about twenty pieces (tiny springs, plastic beads, ball bearings...). They're going to need to toughen them up a bit. Otherwise, an absolutely sound product idea!
Posted by: Steve Bowbrick | September 12, 2004 at 10:26 AM
By the way, the B&W audio cassette camera was called Pixelvision and made by Fisher Price and it lives on - there's a festival for Pixelvision film-makers later this year: http://www.indiespace.com/pxlthis/
Posted by: Steve Bowbrick | September 12, 2004 at 10:30 AM