The Kid-Tough Digital Camera from Fisher-Price turns the tables on the usual family photography scene. It gives children a sturdy camera with a preview screen, automatic flash, storage on SD memory cards and easy transfer to Macintosh or Windows computers through a U.S.B. cable.

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You can't miss the large shutter button, which makes a loud, fake shutter noise when pressed. The picture appears on a tiny screen, and there are two arrow buttons for photo browsing, plus a trash button for deletions. All aspects of this camera are easy to use, except changing the four AA batteries, which involves a hunt for a screwdriver. The dual-eye viewfinder eliminates the need to squint. Remember struggling to wink when you were little?

The camera, available for $75 from major retailers, produces 640-by-480-pixel photos that are small and fuzzy. The upside is that 75 of them fit in the scant 8 megabytes of internal memory. The picture count could go into the thousands if you use the SD card slot.

Nobody understands user interfaces like toymakers, whose products must make sense to nonreaders with short attention spans. Perhaps Fisher-Price should make cameras for grown-ups.