Advantages: Features Like Any Regular Digital Camera Disadvantages: 16 MB Internal Memory and No Zoom Capabilities
No digital camera review on CIAO would be complete without a few entries about cameras designed for kids. After all, kids are almost universally enthusiastic about taking pictures. And parents with a love of photography often pass down their passion to their children. But digital cameras are not always kid-friendly, due to fragile construction, price, or complicated menus and buttons. The newest trend in children's electronics is a group of digital cameras made especially for small children. These cameras are easy to hold, come in bright colors that kids love, and have many of the same features as grown-up digitalcameras. Kids love them.
The VTech KidiZoom Digital Camera is one of the top digital cameras for kids. This camera was made with fun in mind. Kids like the KidiZoom's large LCD screen and the onboard photo editing options ...
Advantages: Very high quality pictures for both print and web work. Disadvantages: The bundled software that comes with it has a very Fisherprice feel about it.
After reading many reviews on Amazon and amateur camera sites about the different types of hobbyist level digitalcameras, I decided to buy one of these.
The camera itself has a metal casing and so has a sleek feel and look to it. It's very light weight and compact making it very easy to carry around in a handbag or while, (and most importantly) taking pictures! I found that it took only 5 - 10 minutes to get the camera working from out of the box. It was so simple, I didn't take that much notice of the manual.
When starting up the camera, it isn't slow like they digital cameras of yesteryear. Its ability to capture anything in an instant is one of it's many advantages. The photos it and you produce are very high quality, as I found out the other day when I had some printed off at home.
The only downside is the bundled software ...
I bought this camera from marks and spencers for £279.99.
This camera is great due to all the features that it has. It has a great 12x optical zoom, which even at 9x or 10x zoom, the pictures look quite clear and well taken photos. It has a good image stabilisation feature which allows you to take photos even if the object of person is moving very fast.
Its battery life is quite good compared to most ordinary cameras which allows you to take 250 photos on average. It is a 10.1 megapixel camera which has a very high number of pixels for each picture, and I can say this is definitely so when I upload my pictures onto my laptop as the pictures are VERY clear and they still look good when zoomed in by half the size of the picture. ...
Product Information for "Unibrain Fire-i Digital Camera" »
Image sensor
Type
CCD 1/4"
Lens construction
Focus Adjustment
Manual
Interfaces
Computer Interface
IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
Manufacturer's product description
Fire-i Digital Camera is the best FireWire Color Digital Camera available for home/office applications. Its superior VGA picture quality and lightweight housing clearly distinguishes it from other FireWire or USB cameras.Several cameras can be daisy-chained and viewed simultaneously on a PC, via Unibrain's Fire-i Software and the camera's two FireWire ports. Fire-i Software allows the user to monitor one or multiple cameras locally or remotely (via Internet). At the touch of a single button, the user can store snapshots or live video-stream, change and adjust all camera settings for each and every camera connected.Fire-i Digital Camera is ideal for monitoring applications, video conferencing, and home or office surveillance.