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Nice Camera for Kids, None Exists

May 13, 2008
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Today's short trip to Vietnamese afternoon tea: My son was carrying my Rollei 35SE camera with a Lomo LCA leather carrying case. Instead of just viewing the result of a digital camera, he seems to start getting interested in all those cameras sitting in the glass case in our living room. So I picked one and allowed him to carry it for me.

Son Holding Polaroid

I was looking at my glass case full of analog cameras and he asked "may I get that one?" So I pointed to a plastic camera and he said "no no, that one". "This?" I said pointing to yet another plastic camera, "no the big one". He aimed at the biggest, a Polaroid Highlander. It was too heavy for him to hold up to eye level so finally I laid it on sofa for him to play with the shutter. After 30 seconds playing with the shutter he switched his attention to the flash unit. "What's this?" he said. "It's supposed to be a flash unit but we don't have the bulbs here so it doesn't work." Then he made canon firing sounds by clicking on the switch. Time to go afternoon tea, that's when I shortened the strap of the leather case to fit his size and made him carry a Rollei compact for me.

Tonight I searched on the net and found some cameras for kids. But none of them looks good enough. All but super colorful and weird shapes like game controllers. Why don't they make some classic looking digital cameras with colorful shells? I hate to see game controllers invading into a kid's world.