HEWEIMEI Kids Camera WIth Instant Print by @adetorrent on 3Speak
This Little Kids' Camera Does A Lot More Than Take Photos I recently got my hands on this rather interesting little instant print camera designed for kids. I have to say, I was quite impressed with...
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This kid's instant print camera is going to be an absolute hit, Christmas present, birthday presents, all sorts of presents, get ready to see this requested by so many kids. Anyway, so I'm going to go through the features of this beautiful camera, starting from the look and feel of the colors, including purple, white and combinations thereof. This is the red and the black aesthetic, which looks really, really good. So first of all, look and feel, it's relatively light, it's very nice to hold. It's made of plastic, but it's very smooth piano type plastic, so it feels high quality. As you can see, it's easy to hold. It's got this strap here that is adjustable, that entertainment system, not just a camera. I know it's marketed as a print, instant print camera, but it does a lot of other things too. We're going to go through all the other features, and then I'm going to go through the camera and the printing in the end. So to turn this device on, you can see this myriad of buttons here. So it's one of those, it's the on button, is this one. But before that, this device is powered by the USB port here. So any USBC cable and a USBC charger would charge this happily, which is a big plus. Some of these devices come with... batteries that have to be replaced frequently, but this one comes with an inbuilt battery that basically is easy to keep charging, okay? It also comes with a TF card that is already installed in there, so a TF card is already installed in there, that can be removed and replaced, obviously. And then there is the trigger button there for the camera and the video function. In order to take pictures, you actually have to uplift this bit here. which exposes more features. There you have the flash. We have the microphone there for capturing audio for the video. On the back there, you have the opening, let me just open it to show you. This is how you load the labels. The photos are printed on the labels. This one comes preloaded with a label, and it also includes two extra labels, but these are also available for refill at a later date when you run out. When you print them, it comes with a nice perforation edge there, like a little cutter that cuts the label clean off. So it is a free feed, obviously feeds the same amount of label each time you take a photo. Now, let's turn the device on. You turn the device on by pressing the on off button. As you see there, it says welcome, and then play different roles. For instance, the on and off button is also the back button. So as you see the thing blinking there is the camera. When you select that, you can take a photo, so we're going to go okay. You can see it just shows a black screen there. If I lift it here, oh, I've already taken a picture by accident. Oh, and there it is. I've accidentally taken a picture of my hand. And my chin. That's quite interesting, actually. And then you cut it off like this very easily. Very nice. So I'll put that aside for now. Now, if I point this at myself, you can see my face in the lens there. And I can also see my face in this silvery bit, which allows me to take a lovely selfie if I wanted to, okay? I've already taken one, so I'm not going to take another. So I've already demonstrated the bit that I was going to demonstrate that. So the pictures are stored in the TF card that is installed in this device. and you can see all the other settings. You can actually change the settings of the photograph in the settings, which I'm going to show you later on. All right, so I'm just closing that now for the next bit. Actually, let me leave it open because I'm going to be showing you the video. Now, if I want to record a video, you just press the forward button, which takes you to the next choice, which is the video. You can see that the icon is blinking. Press OK, and then you see a similar LCD display of my face. Okay, so me waving there. Again, I can see that very nicely because I've got that silvery bit for the selfie in front there. Or I can point it at whatever target that I want, and I can record a video, which includes audio. You can also see the display there. It shows the amount of battery left, which is very convenient. It tells you all the settings. All of these settings, you can also change in the settings. So if you load music onto the TF file, which you can do by connecting your computer via the USBC, or... by putting the audio. But if I did, you see the list here and I can basically just play it and it'd play via the inbuilt microphone in this device. It's the same audio that you get from the games, which I'm going to show you in a minute. So the next thing is photos, right? So I've taken a whole bunch of photos. So if I go, okay, we should be able to cycle through them. Terrible photos because obviously I took them by accident. It's one that I took earlier on. It's a selfie of myself. and of course I've printed it out. Let me just show you, so that's the printout of that selfie. Now, the printout can also be controlled in settings. There are two types of prints that you can do. You can do a grey scale print like this, or you can do a dot matrix type print for labels and things like that. And this device actually comes with a very fun activity, a bunch of coloring pens, because the DIY activity that's connected to this is actually colorizing this via the colored pens. So you can take pictures of each other and then color them in, you know, making them more exciting. All right, so the next one I'm going to show you, and it's the games. Okay, so this comes with a variety of games. I'll just cycle through them. So that's a well-known one. Also a well-known maze game. There's another one. This is my favorite game of all time, similar to Tetris. And here's another one, here's another one, okay? And obviously, let me just cycle into one of them to show you. Alright, if I got okay, it's a very popular well-known game. And of course, we have the settings. Now, the settings is where you change a whole bunch of things. Let me just cycle through them, you have the languages that you can change, so you can basically pick whichever language you want. Polsky, Spanish, Fonsei, Italiano, English, Turkish, etc, etc., etc., which is very handy for different languages. You can basically pick the print settings, like I said before. Let me back out of that. You have the print mode, which tells you what type of printing you can do. You have date and time settings, volume setting, very important, especially if children are going to be using it, video size, so again, size and resolution to save space. The same thing with the camera resolution, you can decide how high quality you want the pictures to be, and of course you can format the SD card that is installed in there. And of course, we have auto power off settings, so if the device was left on for a while, you know, are not being used, you can auto power off to save battery, okay, we have screen saver, that's another option, and then we have this setting called the cyclic record, which is very useful if the memory becomes full, it just overwrites whatever's there before, and frequency, I'm not quite sure what that is, default settings, this then returns everything to the factory settings, and then this gives you information, such as the firmware that are installed on this machine, and then we're back to the beginning again. So those are pretty much the settings, and that's pretty much it with this little device, like I said before. It's USB chargeable, it's prints by itself on this label and gives you this nice creative activity you can do. It's got this hand strap, it comes in with its own printing labels. You can get more online or, you know, wherever you can find them. They're thermal labels, it doesn't need ink, it prints directly on the label. And it's a beautiful little gift. It's very compact, easy to post. Absolutely love it.
@alonicus: Interesting ! It looks like a kind of modern take on those old Polaroids. I like the thermal paper idea. The Polaroid film cartridge was outrageously expensive and only gave you ten shots. Once you'd taken a picture it would roll out of the front in a sealed pack you had to wave in the air for a couple of minutes to let it develop before you could open it and find out you'd accidentally taken a picture of your own feet.