Check out this camera I bought

March 6th, 2008 by Not Martha

Only this one isn’t mine! LOL ~ Lucas got a camera this weekend when we went to Best Buy. He’s been wanting one for awhile and after all his hard work to get on the honor roll how could I say no? Besides that he had a gift card! He is so in love with his little camera, he took like 500 pictures already. No, that’s not an exaggeration!

disney camera pix pirates of the caribbean

If I recall correctly the Disney Pix Max Pirates of the Carribean III Digital Camera holds 200 pictures, and he’s emptied it twice already and it has pictures on it again, not quite full again.

I made a folder on my flickr account for some of his pictures, titled By Lucas. That gives me two little budding photographers now, Dylan and Lucas both have their very own cameras.

His first picture he took with the camera was a self portrait;

He spent all day taking pictures of Ethan and testing things out since Ethan is a little ham and doesn’t mind;

And then off to the park to show off his new camera to his friends and get some pics;

And my Wordless Wednesday post yesterday? He took that one too -lol- Is that cheating?

The pictures taken outside definitely come out better than the ones he takes in the house. I mean it’s not going to take professional Branson real estate photos or anything, but for a 9 year old that just wants to snap pics of his friends and pets it’s pretty darn good!

Who knew that three little megapixels could bring such joy? Lucas is happy he has a camera to call his own, I’m happy it didn’t cost me a small fortune! And actually looking around online I think Best Buy might have made an error tagging their shelves, online the camera Lucas has is showing prices of $70 and more, and we got it for $40-ish. I know it’s called “best buy” but their prices usually aren’t that great -lol- I think we got it for the mid-range price since there are different models. Anyhow…

So far I’m happy with the purchase as I am with most Disney gear purchases. It’s got a tough case, it came with everything he needed, and it even includes a kid friendly easy to use photo editing program, which we haven’t played with yet. I’ll let you know how that goes too. It has some cool features on it though, you can add borders and Disney characters to your pictures so that should be all kinds of fun.

I’ve read a lot of mixed reviews about these little Disney gadgets online. I’ll admit he has only had the camera not even a week, so I can’t say that it’s going to last forever, but then again I don’t expect it to last forever either. It’s basically a hi-tech toy. I’ve read a lot of places saying they are for pampered little rich kids with lots of money to spend. Sorry, my kids are not pampered, and we certainly don’t have a lot of money to spend! Far from it. Gees, it’s not like I bought him a new car for goodness sakes, it’s an inexpensive little camera for him to have some fun with. Remember fun?

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