Disposable Digital Camera

[AlaskaMOM]

I hope there's someone here that knows what I'm talking about.
I was thinking about getting my kids the Kodak or CVS digital disposable cameras for our upcoming trip, but I have a couple of questions before I but any. I know with the CVS camera you need to take the camera to a CVS pharmacy to be developed, and it costs you to print the pics as well as the pic CD. With the Kodak it costs a little more for the camera, but you get the picture CD for free with the purchase of the regular prints.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Does Disney sell these cameras on property?
And if they do about how much do they cost?
How does having a camera like this get "developed"? and does DW do this? and about how much?and how fast can it be done? (like 1 hour photo?)

And if you've ever tried this before, how'd you like it?

Thanks so much for any advice.

 

[allyn]

i think the disposable digitals are too expensive. they are like $20 plus expensive processing and only take 27-30 photos. that's for the cvs camera. the kodak disposable "digital" is just a film disposable with pre-paid picture cd.

we ended up buying film disposables for my daughter on a recent trip to the world. if you buy them at target or walmart they are only about $5/ea, and the processing at costco including a cd is under $8 (i think, i can't quite recall).
costco does high-resolution scanning from film now at no additional charge. but the photos still aren't that great. (although i can't imagine the photos from a disposable digital are very good either).

i'm really looking for a cheap kids digital camera with reasonable resolution. it has to be easy to use but also indestructible. my daughter dropped her cameras several times. of course the lightweight film disposables didn't break. the fisher-price camera would be ok but it is a lousy 640x480. disney's $50 camera is the same (and doesn't look very sturdy). ditto for disney's $80 3MP camera.

 

[ukcatfan]

i'm really looking for a cheap kids digital camera with reasonable resolution. it has to be easy to use but also indestructible.

I could be wrong, but I don't think that items exists yet. If durability is the most important feature, look for a fixed focal length camera. The zoom mechanisms are easy to break. Have you considered a neck strap to help with accidental dropping? That way if it is dropped, it does not hit the ground.

Kevin

 

[allyn]

I could be wrong, but I don't think that items exists yet. If durability is the most important feature, look for a fixed focal length camera. The zoom mechanisms are easy to break. Have you considered a neck strap to help with accidental dropping? That way if it is dropped, it does not hit the ground.

i'm only looking for a fixed lens camera. my daughter is very young and i want a camera that is very simple to operate. we would consider a wrist strap but my wife would probably consider a neck strap a choking hazard.

 

[JR6ooo4]

maybe do the neckstrap around the neck and under one arm to be less of a hazzard.
would that work?

Mikeeee

 

[ukcatfan]

i'm only looking for a fixed lens camera. my daughter is very young and i want a camera that is very simple to operate. we would consider a wrist strap but my wife would probably consider a neck strap a choking hazard.

Please do not take offense at this, but I don't think you will ever find the camera that you want. That is an extremely small market segment and there is no reward for them to develop one. It could happen, but I believe the FP one is your only choice right now. It might be better for you to just get the better camera and monitor usage. I don't think you said how old you child is, but if choking is still worried about, then your daughter may be young enough to have plenty of resolution with 640x480. My 5 yo. sometimes takes pictures, but she is only interested in seeing it on the LCD. She never looks at her pics when she gets home.

Your child's safety is your business, but I see thousands upon thousands of kids at WDW with the pin lanyards that are only about 3-4 yo.

Kevin

 

[allyn]

i think you're right that the camera i am looking for doesn't exist. so i will probably have to settle for one of the obvious choices like the FP or the disney pix click or max. in cameras not targeted toward kids, it seems to be getting harder to find cameras without optical zoom, even below the $100 price point.

my daughter is almost 3.5. something you said really struck a chord. she loves taking pictures but, at least from the disneyworld trip, wasn't really interested in looking at the photos after we got home. hmm. more to think about.

 

[ukcatfan]

I believe the FP and $49 Pix Click have decent LCDs. I have heard that it is almost too easy to delete a pic on the FP. It is just one button and there is not a confirmation step. You press it and it is gone.

BTW... I have three daughters 13, 9, 5 My oldest is really getting interested in taking pics, but I don't think she really wants to learn the details yet. She goes to high school next year and I am hoping the school she gets has a photography class. She is also interested in the yearbook staff.

Kevin

 

[seashoreCM]

Lots of disposable cameras called "digital" are really just film cameras where the (ordinary) processing purportedly includes digital enhancement and gives you a CD.

About the real disposable digital cameras, most of them are but 640x480 (about a third of a megapixel) and some don't have digital viewfinders and some won't let you delete any but the last shot you took.

Unfortunately I cannot recommend any kind of camera for a child who has not attained the level of maturity to not simply snap everything in sight.

Before buying a camera just for a photography course, get the teacher's recommendation. For some courses (those emphasizing the artistic part of photograph) you might not need anything fancy, while other (more technical) courses may need a camera with a lot of manual settings.

Disney hints:
http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

 

[allyn]

Unfortunately I cannot recommend any kind of camera for a child who has not attained the level of maturity to not simply snap everything in sight.

with a digital camera i don't see a downside to snapping everything in sight.