Digital Concepts Kidz Cam Digital Camera Kit

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Summary: If it were possible for plastic to eminate the odor of...
Review: ...barnyard droppings, surely that would be the scent of this product.

Within moments of being removed from the protective sleeve my angel child had severed the battery door off the back in a permanent fashion.

All will not be lost if I can build a robot warrior, using this camera as an optical sensor array, to take vengance on those who would pass such miserable products off on unsuspecting folk.

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Summary: Horrible product! Don't buy this camera!
Review: Bought this camera for my 6year old for Christmas. It is simply trash. There is not one good thing I can say about this product or Sakar's Customer Service. Already have sent mine back!

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Summary: Trashed my hard drive
Review: I bought one of these SnapKids cameras for my kids for Christmas. They were thrilled and quickly shot a bunch of pictures. I installed the software to my Windows 2000 SP4 system following the instructions. I downloaded the pictures. All seemed fine, until I tried to access other files on my computer. I got a "disk error" message. Since nothing worked at that point, I figured I'd better reboot and try again.

CheckDisk started up immediately, with error messages about corrupted file tables. It was unable to recover much of anything. In fact, the entire hard drive had been trashed. After hours with various disk utilities, I was able to recover a few files. I lost months of digital photos (taken with my Nikon not with this thing), captured video, our budget files, basically everything.

Installing this camera's software was the only change I made. As a professional computer tech and programmer, I'm quite sure that this software was the cause of the problem not some other chance coincidence.

I've returned the camera to where I bought it. Getting the $20 back hardly makes up for the lost photos of my kids, video of my daughter's first words, and so forth.

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Summary: Horrible camera
Review: I bought this camera for my 8 yr old daughter and it did not work. I had trouble even trying to get the camera to turn on and stay on. I was unable to download any of the images either. I did not expect a whole lot for 20 dollars, but I expected it to, at least, take pictures. It could'nt even do that. Thumbs way down for this product.

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Summary: Big waste of money. :(
Review: I bought two of there for my 6 and 7 yr. old boys for Christmas. This camera is looks and feels like it'll break easily. I'm just waiting for one of my boys to drop it and have to throw it away. The battery case in the bottom won't stay shut and all of the pictures are lost when the batteries come out. There is only one "mode" button to change from high quality to high quality, etc. It's confusing for my kids...actually it's not all that easy for me either. lol It doesn't have an off or on button, it just turns itself off, which means that every time the boys turn it back on they have to scroll thru the options before they are able to take a picture. It's also very easy to accidentally erase all of their pictures. (It's happened more times that I can count.)
Now for the picture quality: POOR!! Even in the high quality mode, not one of the their pictures is worth making a print of.
I am so disappointed in this camera. I wish I hadn't wasted my money of these!

It's an okay camera for kids to learn how to take pictures with, without wasting film and it'd probably be worth $10 (shipping included) but not a penny more.



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Summary: Breaks easily
Review: I bought two of these cameras, one for each kid. They got the cameras on Christmas Day and took about 10 pictures. The next day my son dropped his on the floor (about a foot drop onto hardwood) and now it doesn't work. A camera marketed to kids ought to be more durable than that.

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Summary: Lasted just a few hours
Review: I purchased two cameras for my children. The first didn't work right out of the package. It wouldn't let me set the mode properly and wouldn't take a picture. The second stopped working properly a lttle later that day. I could set the mode but my children had trouble understanding it. Neither camera would turn on at all after a few hours and I thought perhaps the automatic shut-off wasn't working and I changed batteries, but this did not solve the problem. I, too, am returning this product.

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Summary: Absolute TRASH - stay away from this camera!!
Review: My wife purchased this camera at Christmas for my 5 year old who has developed an interest in taking pictures.

Unfortunately, this camera did not take a single successful photograph -- or at least I couldn't find any on the camera using the horrible software and drivers that came with this dreadful product. Luckily, I was able to deinstall the software before it totally trashed my computer.

Find a low-resolution digital camera that is sturdy and affordable instead. You should be able to find a older Kodak digital camera on eBay that will be much easier for your children to use and will even take flash photos (unlike this simple "toy" model).

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Summary: Digital Camera good software, poor quality
Review: The Camera itself is very durable and would withstand a drop making it good for child usage. The software makes it very easy to upload photos and manipulate them and children would have a lot of fun with the different options available on the program. The webcam mode is simple to use, however it's hard to take pictures while using that mode. Now for the negative, the viewfinder doesn't line up even close to the photo, when you look through the view finder; the bottom of the photo is cut off quite a bit compared to what was seen. The photo quality is shoddy at best. Things that are smooth look grainy; the slightest movement causes the entire photo to blur to unrecognizable. And even without movement, the pictures are hard to make anything other than blurry or out of focus.

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Summary: DON'T BUY THIS CAMERA
Review: What a total piece of junk, of course the kid received it as gift with no receipt...It worked for almost 15 minutes for 20 bucks.