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Novel new camera for kids takes four different pictures in each frame and quadruples the number of images per roll.
If you've ever purchased a camera for a young child over the age of 6 years, you've probably gone through quite a few rolls of film before the child "mastered their photographic aptitude. Leave it to Nickelodeon to come up with a camera that gives your child four times the chances to practice snapping a picture and, I might add, create some really cool shots.The Nickelodeon PhotoBlaster is a 35-mm precision camera, with two focus-free lenses, which takes four 2- x 3-inch pictures on each 4x 6-inch print. This concept is relatively new to the juvenile photo industry and means that a roll of 24exposure film will give you a whopping 96 different shots (four per print). The PhotoBlaster comes complete with two required AA batteries and a roll of 12 exposure Kodak 35-mm film. This way your enthusiastic photographer can be handed the camera, and it's ready to go.
The PhotoBlaster is indeed a child-friendly camera. The instructions were quite thorough (printed in English and Spanish) and were set up to easily locate the highlighted direction you were looking for. After an adult loads the camera and advances the film to the first picture, the PhotoBlaster is ready to be kid-handled. The camera size is designed to avoid common childrelated mishaps. For example, by placing one hand on the "Green Slime" hand-grip and the other on the purple side of the camera, small fingers would really have to stretch to cover the lens. This almost completely prevents those discouraging fingertip shots. Similarly, the "Big Red Button" shutter release knob is quite easy to push, but not easy enough to take unwanted pictures. The bright purple film advance wheel is also designed with the child in mind. It's simple enough for little fingers to turn, but not overturn and break. The camera is equipped with auto-flash, a bright red LED indicator that shows when the built-in flash is activated, and auto-focus
Besides its easy-to-use features, the PhotoBlaster meets the most stringent safety standards. Nickelodeon's entire line of "serious electronics" are deemed childsafe by its distributor Long Shore Technologies, are rigorously tested and reviewed...