Mickey wants your kid to shoot

Leonard Goh | May 30, 2008

Japanese camera accessories maker Kenko is slapping pictures of Disney characters on its new point-and-shoot, and it seems it is targeting kids or ardent fans of Mickey and his gang.

The DMC-50 comes with a 5.17-megapixel sensor, 2.4-inch LCD screen, 128MB of internal memory (with SD card expansion slot) and 4x digital zoom. That's right, boys and girls, this shooter doesn’t have a zoom lens. Compared with digicams in our Lab, this new kid on the block is asking to be ousted in terms of specifications.

But what's interesting is the rear interface--it looks like a portable game console, all the more encouraging us to presume that this snapper is for kids. At the very least, the design is still quite conventional, unlike Polaroid's kids cam.

Pricing has yet to be confirmed, and we're not sure if you can get it from Kenko's Web site, too. Your best bet is to get someone who's going to Japan and check it out.

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