Your kid can be a photographer as early as three years old! Daddy Troy reviews the ten main features parents should look for when buying your kids their first digital camera. Some of these features include durability, camera memory, and the interface. He looks at a kids camera from VTech and also a Fisher Price camera. Turning your children into photographers is a great way to teach them creativity. They'll likely also capture great family images and create wonderful memories. DadLabs Gear Daddy ep. 236.

Daddy Troy: Welcome back to Gear Daddy. I’m your host Daddy Troy and in this episode I will list the top 10 things to look for when you’re buying your kids first camera. Kids as young as 3 years old can actually start using a digital camera. Today I have two models. One is by Fisher Price and one by Vtech that specifically designed for that age range. Now realize they have about as many bells and whistles as the adult cameras do so it’s worth knowing 10 things to look for when you go to buy one.
Now the top 10 really isn’t a top 10 today, it is merely 10 things to look for when you actually buy one of these cameras. Since it is there your kids first camera, realize that durability is really, really important. The kids are going to be carrying it around with them everywhere. They’re gonna drop it on the concrete and these cameras like babies actually bounce. They are very soft on the outside kind-of soft rubber-like material. They’re really sturdy all one piece, no moving parts to go in and out. So durability, number one thing when buying your kids first camera.
The size of the screen on the back is really, really important for an early photographer. He or she has some near misses some successes and it's really important for him or her to be able to evaluate what pictures they’ve just taken. It turns out kids do not use the screen as much as they do the actual viewfinder to take pictures. So look for cameras that have two eyes rather than one.
And there’s two types of memory in these cameras, internal memory and there's also external memory like an SD card that you put in. First thing you want to do is check internal memory in case you do not have an SD card for the camera. Internal memory ranges 8MB, 16MB the more you have the more pictures the kid will take and I promise you they’re gonna fill up the camera pretty quick.
How accessible or inaccessible is the USB port. Some cameras have this little spring-loaded device that allows you access that keeps the kid from getting in there with their little fingers. Some cameras actually require you to take off the back, which is a total pain.
Some of them actually have other things on them like games. May not be the best thing, I think from a dad's perspective who is a photographer, a kind of want my kid to actually be out there taking pictures but for your family maybe it works.
Some cameras have a port where you can plug your camera right into your TV for instant gratification.
The interface is pretty important, now remember a three-year-old is using this thing and he or she has never used a camera before so they are not familiar with things like reviewing pictures or deleting pictures but the interface on the back, Fisher-Price has four basic buttons. See the Vtech right here has a few extra buttons that then again kids pick these up pretty quickly.
If you don't have the instant off button you’re gonna waste a lot of batteries.
Okay so that's 10 things to look for when buying your first camera. This is a camera by Vtech, it's about $30 bucks and this camera is by Fisher Price, and it's about $50. One last thing, I was really surprised how much I started loving the pictures my son was taking. In fact, he's taken one of my favorite pictures of all time of my daughter who is now two; my son’s five. So there is a huge value edge beyond the toy value of things. You’re teaching your kid to be creative. You can organize family events around using the camera like a photo safari or the best thing you get great pictures of your family.
We’ll see you next week on Gear Daddy.