Disney Camera Reviews

The children's cameras featured on this website were all tested by the reviewer and her two young sons (aged 5 years and 2 years). Please bear in mind the opinions expressed are solely that of the reviewer, and that product specifications and function may have been improved upon since this information was published.

Disney digital camera

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The range of Disney Pix Click cameras are all essentially the same, but with different characters on the front. The products come with Disney Pix photo editing software so your child can add stamps, borders and distorted effects to their photos once you’ve uploaded them to the computer. Please note, the software is not specific to the character camera you have purchased and features popular characters from across the entire Disney genre.

I did not actually own this camera so decided to a beg a loan from a friend whose kids have the Cars Click digital camera. Convincing her to lend it to me turned out to be no problem at all and it was handed over to me immediately with a "you can keep it, it’s rubbish and my kids don’t play with it". Hmm, not really a glowing endorsement of the product.

My friend’s succinct review turned out to be a fair and accurate description of this kid’s digital camera, for the most part. So hear is what my boys and I found during a weekend with the product.

Good features of the Disney Click digital camera:

* The fact it comes with popular characters on does make it appealing to young children. My two year old in particular was impressed that it has a picture of "Kerchow" (Lightening McQueen) on it, as his interest in cameras doesn’t go much beyond running around pointing it at random items and pressing buttons.

* It is a lightweight and simple to use, and feels like it could be quite durable and could stand up to a fair bit of rough play. Theoretically, it should be a good alternative for parents who want to buy a children’s digital camera but find the V Tech and Fisherprice versions too heavyweight.

* The Disney Pix photo editing software is good fun and straight forward to use. It’s probably not worth buying the camera for this reason alone though, unfortunately.

Bad features of the Disney Click Digital camera:

* The resolution is very, very poor. First and foremost kid’s digital cameras are toys, but I do want the pictures to be at least good enough that you can make out what they are. The few pictures where I could tell what my son had photographed were dark and grainy, or incredibly over exposed. The majority of photos that were taken were just a black nothingness.

* The LCD screen reflects the poor quality of the photos. Like the pictures we took, the screen was so dark we couldn’t actually see what we were photographing, particularly when we were indoors. There is no viewfinder on the camera so using that to compose your shot instead isn’t an option.

* You can’t insert an SD card for additional storage. A capacity for two hundred photos may sound a lot, but a preschooler can easily max that out in under 20 minutes. In this case, though, it was only a minor issue as my four year old got so frustrated that all the photos were showing up black that he soon discarded the camera anyway.

I didn’t try the Disney Cars micro digital camera - all of the Disney cameras come in a pocket sized version- but a cursory glance of the reviews for it suggest it suffers from the same problems and is also so ‘micro’ that it is too small even for little hands.

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Verdict:

After my friend’s comment about the camera, my expectations were already pretty low and a couple of days using the Disney digital camera did nothing to change that. On the plus side, these cameras can sometimes be bought quite cheaply. If you have a very young child who simply wants to emulate his parents taking photos and who doesn’t care about the product beyond the fact it has a cartoon character on, then it may still be worth buying. If your child is old enough to want to be able to see what he’s photographing, consider better alternatives such as the VTech Kidizoom camera.

Disclaimer~ Newer products such as the Toy Story 3 Digital Camera have a higher resolution (so theoretically better picture quality) and can store more photos than the model I tested. The negative points in this review cannot necessarily be applied to them, so it is a good idea to look at other people's reviews before making a final decision!

What customers say:

This was the customer verdict on the Disney digital camera, (taken from Amazon).

"Maybe I'm being unfair since this is not an expensive camera but I'm dissapointed by this; it's not really that easy to use and even with the screen brightness set at maximum it's pretty hard to see what you are about to take a photo of."