Getting Your Kid Into Digital Cameras

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 digital cameras. 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...

bennyong 21.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of VTech Kidizoom Camera Pink

vanguard Camera case

Advantages: cheap price, safe and durable, waterproof, and camera protective
Disadvantages: Made in china, available in black only.

...background to Vanguard until I started to write this review I had no idea who they were. I searched online and read a few reviews about the company. The company specialise in manufacturing Camera bags, Binoculars, Tripods and Cases for guns to name a few products. The companies customers include major Camera manufacturers. vanguard Camera Case for a Camera case it is a low priced entry level Camera Case used to hold, store and allow the user to move around with a Camera inside the Pouch. The Camera Case is black coloured throughout. The Case has the Vanguard's logo encased on the closing part of the Pouch. Also the material is polyester and I suppose that it is good that it is not made from leather as the leather in the summer weather reacts to the heat. This Camera Case also adheres to the international quality...

costas1234 12.05.2008 (31.05.2009) · Read review
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Review of Vanguard LIMA 6B Case Camera

The Abbie Proof Camera!

Advantages: Keeps kids amused for ages, great range of features, very tough and durable
Disadvantages: Batteries run out quick, picture quality not great

...a look on there for it. Anyway, I found a very durable looking Fisher Price Kid Tough Digital Camera in pink (brand new in packaging) being sold for £50, £10 postage on top. Not bad as £60 is what they sell for in the shops anyway. A week later and it arrived?.I kept it hidden from my daughter at this point as it wasn't yet Christmas. When she was safely tucked up in bed I decided to have a look. - THE TECHNICAL BIT These are it's features - 1.3" Backlit colour LCD screen 8MB of memory built in Facility to add an SD card for extra memory if required USB Lead to connect to a computer to upload and print photos Two eye viewing holes Two handle grips Automatic Flash Navigation via symbols (easy to understand for kids) WHAT I THOUGHT Well, I was impressed with the features especially the navigation, this meant my 3 year old...

shortnsweetlauraloo 21.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Fisher-Price Digital Camera

Solid built DSLR Camera

Advantages: Very good value now that it costs under £500
Disadvantages: Fast shooting is quite slow at 3fps

...This DSLR camera was over £1000 when it first came on the market. Now it is under £500 and it is a bargin of a DSLR for the money. It shares a body with the Nikon D200. Because of this it can be used with Nikon Lens' and D200 accessories. It uses Compact Flash memory, and has a cache ram for 7 shots. The camera is quite big, heavy and bulky so is not the best of cameras for taking on holiday etc. But the quality of the pictures is excellant. It can be used as fully automatic and basicly just point and shoot but for the best results I've found that the manual settings (if you can be bothered using them) gives the best results....

jegb 04.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro

Caught on Camera

Advantages: Help prevent accidents
Disadvantages: Big fines

...Speed cameras are one of the best inventions ever thought up, it is just a shame our councils and police can not put them to better use. The sole purpose of out friendly little Gatso should / was originally to deter speeding and therefore cut the number of accidents involving excess speed. I live at the bottom of a fairly large hill, which happens to be a major through road. Halfway up the hill is a primary school, because of the nature of the hill and the fact at the top of it, it changes from national speed limit to 30mph I have personally witnessed 1000's of car coming down the hill at 40mph plus, why is there not a speed camera there I will never know. Leicester City council have recently announced they are doubling the number of speed cameras in the county, they also announced where they will be situated, I feel that is...

jmorley99 27.05.2002 · Read review
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Review of Speed Cameras

Belkin 2-Port KVM Switch With Built-In Cabling

Advantages: Advantages: Cheap, all in one solution
Disadvantages: No manual overide or audio support

...stops autoscanning and lets you use the currently selected PC. The Belkin claims support for scrolling mice but I did find sometimes one PC would start up without recognising this facility if it wasn't the currently selected one when booting up and in extreme cases, wouldn't recognise the keyboard and mouse at all. Previous KVM's I've used send the PC fake 'There's a keyboard and mouse here' messages when not selected and it seems this unit does not, which is a pity. Conclusion The Belkin 2 port KVM is a well built unit that works nicely and provides a great way to save desk space and the cost of a second monitor, keyboard and mouse. The long leads are useful and despite the niggles with scrolling mice and the lack of manual switch. I'd say this unit is worth considering at this price if you can live with those shortcomings...

ilaskey 21.03.2007 · Read review
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Why I think, Speed cameras don't work

Advantages: Reduces speed temporarily, If used properly reduces accidents and deaths.
Disadvantages: Propaganda, Revenue raising, Being lied to and Targeted.

...already on heavy goods vehicles, I have seen schemes put forward where cars can be controlled by satellites but I feel that is too extreme. # Target areas that NEED to be targeted, Schools, Built up areas, pedestrian crossings, villages, accident blackspots, crossroads - if people get caught in these cases then I have no sympathy. Abolish plans to put in speed cameras in any other area. # Increase the amount of speedhumps which has proved to be the only method of controlling speed effectively - of course only if they are implemented safely which isn't always the case. # Target peoples driving skills rather than cracking down on speeding like banning hands free mobile phones which distracts drivers and also making it an offence to tailgate - this could be enforced much the same way as speeding. Another way is to make driving courses...

WormThatTurned 02.10.2002 · Read review
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Review of Speed Cameras

SPEED CAMERAS - A MONEY MAKING SCAM?

Advantages: Preventing accidents? saving lives?
Disadvantages: Making money?

...your car to work in the future, it could cost you a fortune. Not that anyone would attempt to! Naturally speaking though, speed cameras can reduce accidents and prevent deaths on the roads. This will only happen if they are in suitable places. To clarify matters: YES - Speeding is stupid YES - Limits are there for a reason YES - Doing a higher speed will increase the risk of killing someone YES - There should be speed cameras NO - They should not be in places where there aren't schools or non built-up areas. What do you think? Many thanks to Mr John Lockett, the webmaster of www.ukspeedtraps.com, for suppling the pictures for this review....

mdstone 25.11.2003 (10.12.2003) · Read review
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Review of Speed Cameras

WARNING New Cameras

Advantages: For short distance lower drivers speed
Disadvantages: Encourages dangerous driving

..."Speed cameras have their limitations...but when these matters can be overcome they will be a sure winner for raising revenue". The Metropolitan Police magazine, Metline, March 1999 Edition I saw this quote on the ABD (Association of British Drivers) website (www.abd.org.uk), I feel it shows how the role of the speed camera on our roads is changing. When cameras were introduced people were upset, the press frequently commenting that this is the first step towards the sate becoming “Big Brother”. The government promised that the cameras would only be used in proven accident blackspots and this went some way to pacifying the public. There were also numerous television campaigns showing the hazards of speed (though at least one campaign featured a child that had been killed on a pedestrian crossing rather than due to...

kingsanj 20.06.2001 · Read review
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Review of Speed Cameras

A very impressive, well built, high spec camera

Advantages: compact, great lens, big viewing screen,easy to use, good battery life
Disadvantages: occasional background noise in pictures

...Slim, sleak design. This camera is very well built with good features including very nice zoom lens. Other positives include large clear bright screen,easy to use interface and a solid feel, everything from the flap that covers the sockets to the zoom control button. In terms of picture quality it's very good. The auto focus is one of the best I've used. It also has a sturdy shot feature/image stabliser which makes it even easier to take good photos. A problem I found in other cameras is using the display i sunlight, this isn't as much of a problem with this camera. It has a feature for improving the display when you're holding the camera up high, enabling you to still see the display. The anti-red eye feature works well. The battery life is very good, although it's too new to say exactly how long this is.Negatives of the camera include...

jennyf16 02.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX33