VTech KidiZoom Duo FX, Kids Camera with Colour Screen, 8MP
VTech KidiZoom Duo FX, Kids Camera with Colour Screen, 8MP, Photos, Selfies & Videos, AR Filters, 20 games, 75 photo & video effects, filters & frames, for Infants aged 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 + years, Blue
| Dimensions: | 6 x 16 x 11 cm; 590 g |
| Model: | 519903 |
| Material: | Plastic |
| Colour: | Blue |
| Batteries Required: | Yes |
| Batteries Included: | Yes |
| Age: | 36 months – 10 years |
| Assembly: | No |
| Dimensions: | 6 x 16 x 11 cm; 590 g |
| Material: | Plastic |
Good toy camera. Learning tool for toddlers.
My son loves this camera, especially for the games. He takes photos and adds fun filters to them and is learning all about the different functions. I recommend a 32Gb memory card so your child can take endless photos and make mistakes.. before you go through them to filter out the bad ones. Let them explore.
Takes lower resolution photos but they can be later upscaled if it is a masterpiece.
Perfect camera for younger childre
We bought this for my 3 year old son. He’s in awe with this camera. The fact he can take photos, videos, play games and much more. He feels like an adult, bless him!
The price of this camera reflects the potential it has. It provides hours of entertainment to my son.
Keeps kids busy
My son loved the camera. It is easy to use and has different filters and games and keeps him busy for hours. The quality is great and child proof.
The only downside is that the case is sold seperately but the camera is amazing.
Perfect toy (although it’s actually a really good camera for kids) with many fun features to occupy kids. Picture quality is good. Device is very sturdy cable of taking the odd drop. Grandkids love it.
Great fun camera for kids
Bought this for a child and it was a great success. Easy to use, fun design, and the child loved taking photos straight away. The camera feels sturdy and perfect for little hands. Very happy with this purchase.
Got this VTech KidiZoom Duo FX for my 10yearold at Christmas and honestly, it was a hit right out of the box. It’s got a surprisingly good grip for kids’ hands — feels sturdy without being heavy, so he can run around with it without me worrying he’ll drop it every five seconds. The camera options are fun, but what he really loves is playing with the photos. The silly faces, comicstyle filters, emojis, frames he spends ages customizing everything and cracking himself up. It’s way more about creativity and play than taking “serious” pictures, which is exactly what I wanted.
The builtin games are a bonus too — not too intense, just enough to keep him entertained on car rides or when he’s waiting around. It feels like the perfect inbetween gadget: not a toddler toy anymore, but also not a fullon phone (which he doesn’t have yet). Kind of a transitional camera that lets him explore tech without jumping straight into a smartphone. Overall, great gift, great quality, and he’s still using it weeks later — which says a lot.
Great First Camera for Young Kids Super Durable
This Kidizoom camera was a Christmas gift for my 5-year-old and it’s been fantastic. It’s really strong, chunky, and robust — perfect for little hands. It’s already been dropped a few times and is still working perfectly, which says a lot!
The picture quality is surprisingly good for a kids’ camera, and the built-in games and features have kept my child entertained for hours. It’s easy to use and great for encouraging creativity and independence.
The only drawback is that it doesn’t use rechargeable batteries. It takes four batteries and we’ve already had to replace them, which is a bit inconvenient. That said, it’s still a great product overall and well worth it for how durable and fun it is.
Highly recommend for younger kids!
I had purchased the older version of this camera many years ago and what an improvement. The friendly user interface means my 4 year olds took to using this over Christmas and captured some great snaps. They enjoy the games and the interactive ness. It’s more than just a camera and they love it. Even for the money I’m glad I bought two for my twins as they love them. Battery life is pretty good, weight and size is manageable easily for 4 year olds. Robust too as clumsy hands have dropped these already with no issues thankfully.
Fun (and Good) produc
I purchased 2 for Xmas presents. The Boys loved them, and they worked well with no issues thus far. The internal memory is small so would recommend purchasing a Micro SD card.
Nice camera for little ones
My 4 year old managed to work out how to use it pretty quickly and the photo quality is good enough for him to be happy. Annoying to have to keep replacing the batteries which didn’t last long, the only negative.
Great Fun for kids
A great product with lots of facilities, it’s only downfall is the camera quality and the games etc are hard to compete with other toys/devices a kid has. But in general the camera is great and has many features but difficult to find the right age for i
fab camera, could be easier to share photos
My son loves this camera. My only issue is that I think the only way to share the photos is to plug it in to a laptop. I barely have a laptop, it would be better if photos could be shared a different way
Got for sons 4th birthday after seeing his friend had one and it was easily his favourite present and is used pretty much every day by all my kids. Ages 4-8 all love it. It did run out of battery after a few days but apart from that it’s faultless. Easy for everyone to use and so much fun to have a look back at what photos they have taken.
Lovely first camera
My son got this for his 4th birthday. He loves it. You can video and take pictures and even play games. It also has filter features that the children can use to take funny pictures which kept my son entertained for ages. You can also change the colours of pictures. Memory card can also be inserted which came in handy as my son was snapping away! Only downside is that it’s not powered by an internal battery with a charger. You have to keep using AA batteries which is a nuisance when you have to keep swapping them. Apart from that it is great.
Got this for my almost 3 year old son as a present for when his new sister is born in a couple of weeks. I can’t speak for how he gets on with it, but I’ll adjust this review if he struggles because I think it’s fantastic. I paired it with a cheap 32gb SD card from Amazon – https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07ZG93S5J/ and it works great. My main reason for getting such a big card is that as well as my son being able to take lots of pictures and photos of his new sister, he absolutely loves his music and I figured I could download a bunch of his favourite songs as videos and dump them on the card for him to watch. It does say in the instruction manual not to place your own videos on the card due to potential format errors, but I figured if I took a video with the camera and just looked at the file properties, I’d know what settings to use on a video converter tool. Found one online for free and followed the naming conventions used by the camera’s file system and it works just fine.
For anyone who is interested in doing similar, I used the website convertio.co to take an MP4 file and converted it to an AVI. Then, in the settings for the conversion under the video tab, I set the codec to MJPEG, quality to High, resize to 320×240, and frame rate to 15fps. Under the audio tab, I set the codec to PCM_S16LE, audio to Mono, and frequency to 22050Hz. After converting, I downloaded the file onto the SD card and into the appropriate folder (I formatted the SD card in the camera first to set up the right folder structure) and renamed it to follow the naming convention used by the camera (e.g. 100_0001.avi, 100_0002.avi and so on). I’ve kept a copy on my PC just in case my son accidently deletes the files so I can quickly put them back. Not tried this with anything longer than a 4 minute music video. The instruction manual says that the maximum file length for a video on the SD card is 10mins, but this is possibly just a limit on recording rather than playback, otherwise I’d expect a size in megabytes to be given.
Anyway, all the intended uses and features are great too, just thought I’d highlight this secondary one to save anyone else planning to do similar some of the hassle in working out how.
This is my 3rd V-Tech camera purchase, having brought 2 previously for my now teenager eldest during her early years. My youngest just turned 4 and like a lot of kids that age is always picking up everyone elses tablets/phones to play – I wanted to get him something age appropriate that was his to tinker with. V-Tech has done the job perfectly.
Some reviewers have complained that the games take away from the camera feature, my response to this (from my previous experiences with earlier version of the camera that also had games on) would be, yes they do but only to some extent. Eventually the child gets interested in going back to look at other features too. I like that my son has his own little device to play with – if he’s playing with the games then I have no problem with that (they are very simple games), in fact we all sit with him and play them/help him with it. We also encourage the photo side and do lots of the comedy frames together. We also have a lot of fun doing silly voices on the voice recorder. You can of course turn the games feature off in the options.
It’s robust enough to be dropped about and easy enough for a 4 year old to operate (with a bit of help here and there, also he turned the language to german by accident at one point!).
The photos themselves are fairly low quality. It does have a flash on it and also a limited zoom feature. As above there are lots of frames and animations you can do (my eldest got more into this when she was a bit older/after having the camera for a while).
If you are looking for a pure camera for more serious photography then this is not it – but if you are looking for an age appripriate electronic toy with a few different features and something that does a great job of entertaining older toddlers/preschoolers/early years this is really brilliant and excellent value for money.
On offer - Fantastic.
Bought for a boys Christmas present, 3 years
Pros…
Camera itself is simple to use. Easy set up and requires 4 x AA batteries. We’ve converted to using rechargables, but it’s battery life overall is very good.
Sturdy due to the side protection. Has a good selection of frames and games to play, which are very simple so excellent for a three to four year old.
A particular favourite feature of it is the Selfie mode, and the focus tuner on the lens changes the colour of the pictures, there’s about 7 filters.
We got this about a month before Chirstmas at just over twenty pounds (on a deal) and I think it has been fantastic for the price so far.
Cons…
The image quality is very poor on both the front and back cameras, I didn’t expect it to be brilliant, but it’s worse than I thought it would be.
I would maybe have bought it for when he was 4-5, as it requires a steady hand, It is made ergonomically well to hold straight and still, however my son was just a tad to young at the time of purchase and is much better with it now he’s a bit older. (Nearly 4).
The camera works out of the box (no need to take it and set it up before wrapping it) and is a very decent first camera for a child. My 4.5 year old daughter can operate it and actually sussed out the different main features faster than I did! As with most digital cameras it has a digital screen displaying the live image, but it also has a double viewfinder which teaches youngsters about lining up an image by eye, but without them having to coordinate closing one eye to do it (which might be tricky for smaller children). The camera has features found on adult cameras including a 4 times zoom, a flash which can be turned on or off or put on automatic, and a timer, plus it also has a rear camera for selfies, coloured filters (including black and white), a video camera option, voice recorder, fun photo effects, a basic photo editor and some games which can be disabled or limited through the parental controls.
It’s a robust camera with a rubber shell and a sturdy feel, and it takes 5 megapixel photos. Whilst the picture quality isn’t fantastic, it is much better outdoors and this is a great camera for a child to learn to use a camera with, whilst being relatively hardy to being dropped etc, and the photos themselves not taking up too much space on a computer. The internal memory stores about 200 photos, and we purchased a 16GB micro SD card to expand the memory (it will take up to 32GB), which will store approx 14,000 photos or 900 minutes of video, which is plenty. The camera talks to a PC using the provided micro USB cable and Dropbox is able to recognise the camera and download the new photos automatically.
My only gripe, and the reason I’m giving it 4 stars rather than 5, is that it runs on batteries (4xAA) rather than being rechargeable. I would expect any digital camera in this day and age to be rechargeable so didn’t even think to check. The batteries supplied with the unit only lasted 1 day, so we have purchased some Energizer extreme rechargeable batteries and they are lasting longer.