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| Thread ID: 45093 | 2004-05-10 00:10:00 | OT: digital camra on TV (Infomercial) | robsonde (120) | Press F1 |
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| 235444 | 2004-05-11 15:25:00 | Hello Bruce, Have a look at this www.dse.co.nz 1.3 Megapixel,16MB internal memory, movie mode etc, cost $89.00 inc GST Regards Alan |
Alan Cottrell (624) | ||
| 235445 | 2004-05-11 22:51:00 | >Ummm.... Bruce, even the toys I give my 6-9 year old children don't survive the experience. The terms "CF card slot / USB port" and "children" are mutually exclusive. :^o But it is just a matter of design. My kids break stuff too, but there's some toys - the well designed ones -- the haven't. You can build a digicam, including one with CF slots and connection ports -- if you start from the assumption it has to be designed for small, sometimes violent hands. The problem with cheap digicams is that they are mostly designed for adults, and are cheaply manufactured at the same time, so they are inf act more likely to break in a child's hands than an more expensive camera. I want someone to take on the challenge of packaging the necessary stuff in a rugged package, with the usually fragile bits so designed that they are either extremely rugged or extremely flexible, and do it all for sub-$200. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 235446 | 2004-05-12 03:02:00 | The biggest trouble is that to sell at less than a hundred, they have to be produced for less than about $25 or so . This means "cheap"production -- thin plastic case, etc -- and mass production . If the market was there, I'm sure some manufacturer would be making kid-proof cams in titanium cases . But they wouldn't be $100 . So we get expensive fragile "adult" cameras, and we get cheap fragile lower specification cameras . USB connectors are fragile . CF cards and other memory devices are fragile, small and easily "lost", and expensive . As soon as you add the one of those you've doubled the cost . I think a <$100 camera is best treated as "what it is" . Why don't you organise a test for the magazine, Bruce? Ask the manufacturers/agents for sub $100 cameras which are kid-proof . You've got an expert tester . You will then choose one to buy from the survivors(if any) . ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 235447 | 2004-05-12 08:22:00 | My kids have had this "Little Tikes" brand cassette player for years - since the first one was a toddler. Its survived everything they could through at it (or everything they could throw it against). Part of the fragility of CF slots and USB connectors is how exposed their actual construction is. And xd or SD card would be better I guess. I guess I'm still reluctnant to pay $100-$150 for a cheapo camera because I'm sure it wouldn't last to get $150 worth of use out of it. So I'd probably pay $250-$300 if I was sure I was getting a solid product. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 235448 | 2004-05-12 23:39:00 | Why is it that the little childrens toys that last for donkey's years always seem to be made out of a plastic that feels like its about to crumble in the palm of your hand, yet it can stand being thrown across the room? Why should an entry-level Digital Camera have a CF slot at all? 16MB is enough to take over a hundred photo's at 800x600 res, and that's good enough for on-screen and some printing too. You can squeeze about 30 photos at 3mp onto my Creative PC-Cam 650, and that's got 16MB built-in. The question is: Is there a Market? If yes, then it asks a new question: Who is going to capitalize on this? I know MANY children between the age of 7 and 14 who could save pocket money and paper-run money for a bit and get $99 if thats what an entry-level camera cost them that was going to handle being left in a school bag that gets thrown about a bit. *Chilling_Silence goes off in search of ways to make his millions.... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 235449 | 2004-05-13 00:26:00 | >Why should an entry-level Digital Camera have a CF slot at all? 16MB is enough to take over a hundred photo's at 800x600 res, and that's good enough for on-screen and some printing too . You're proably right . I'm just loath to see a camera limited to that kind of thing, no matter how cheap it is . And kids like printing their pics out on A4, (at least mine do) so they'll want to shoot at the max res possible . |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 235450 | 2004-05-13 03:32:00 | Jaycar have these in their latest Cat. $49.95 100k resoltion - 352 x 288 - storage for 80 pics, 20 in Hi ? Res. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
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