Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We got this for my daughter for her third birthday and she absolutely loves it. As someone who owns a dSLR, I was a little "eh" about the low megapixel rating, but for a three year old, it really doesn't matter. Most of her shots are blurry grey streaks of the cat running away, not necessarily something you need in high definition. The photos aren't too bad for being low on the MP scale, but in low light they do tend to be a little more blurry, which goes for most cameras, so that's not really a negative. Battery life is decent, if you are concerned about going through a billion batteries, it's easy to get rechargeable AAs and just recharge them at night. The camera controls are intuitive, within a day she'd figured out how to get to all of the filters, change the cameras between front and back, and even found the games. Personally I find the games to be unnecessary, it doesn't make sense to have them on a camera. I didn't reduce the rating, however, because the games can be turned off. If you do turn them off, I highly recommend doing it before your child finds them, otherwise they will ask about them after you've turned them off. The one thing that I DO take off one star for is the shutter lag. There is a full second or more between the time she presses the shutter and the camera takes the photo. Which means that she's trying to see the photo she just took before the shutter activates. We're working with her to wait until she hears the shutter noise, but I don't think that it is abnormal to expect toddlers to push a button and expect instant results. I'd still recommend the camera, especially for older children who can wait a couple seconds until they hear the shutter sound to check their photos.