August 28, 2005
Dumbed-Down Digitals
Trevor also received a kids digital camera for his aforementioned birthday. I'm always wary of these entry-level cameras because they tend to make it hard to play with the image files outside of their proprietary softare. I once had a camera that would only make images in some never-before-heard-of file format which could not be converted to anything resembling and editable file. That camera has been banished to the kitchen junk drawer.
I was pleased to find that the kiddie camera spits out plain old .jpg files -- good for anything. The photo quality is a little grainy, but hey, he's seven. Nothing so horrible that I can't Photoshop it a bit:
And it comes with kid-friendly download/edit software as well as a slideshow-maker and games which make jigsaw puzzles out of your pictures. Not bad.
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I can hardly believe that he is seven!
ye gods.. time sure does have a way of slipping by.............