Childrens Digital Camera – Do We Still Need Them?
Posted by Kiddo on 8th February and posted in Childrens Birthday Presents, Christmas Gift Ideas
There never seems to be a wrong time to get a childrens digital camera in my opinion. It always makes for a great Christmas gift or surprise treat from Santa if your children haven’t even considered it as a present. It can also make for a nice birthday present for just about any youngster in the family.
However with all the modern day technology making all digital cameras smaller or having better cameras included with a mobile phone is buying a childrens digital camera worth it these days?
When you consider what a childrens digital camera is and start to compare the functions and statistics of the camera with other digital cameras you have gone too far. You have missed the point of what a digital camera is to a child. It’s something that is similar to what their parents have and something they will mimic you doing, putting a camera to your face and saying ‘smile’. For this reason I do still think a chilrends digital camera is worth it but it should be bright and colourful, it should be rugged and the most important point it should be cheap. Let’s face it any toy played with long enough is going to come a cropper sooner or later so why pay a fortune when it could soon be in the recycling pile. It shouldn’t be bought because of its wonderful functions or it’s in built memory capacity, these are all superfluous to what it really is, it is a child’s toy.
When your children reach seven or eight (maybe older, maybe younger, depending on your opinion) the camera that they want, and more often than not get, couldn’t really be called a childrens camera. In fact it will most probably be called a mobile phone with a camera inbuilt. For me however I still prefer giving digital cameras as Christmas gifts. It’s not that the cameras attached to mobile phones are poor, although they often are; it’s more of an attempt to get them interested in something as a hobby. Photography is something I have done as a part time thing for many years and I’m saddened to see the subject reduced to a mobile phone. So whenever I get the opportunity to buy a gift for one of my children or any of the children in my extended family I often buy them a camera. So for me there is nothing wrong about buying a childrens digital camera as long as it’s something that benefits the child and their development.
I’ve never bought any of those over priced childrens digital camera things like a Fisher Price or VTech. I’ve always just gave a real digital camera as a gift. There doesn’t seem much point in paying a lot for what essentially is a funky coloured digital camera.