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There is also a separate selfie camera on the back, and that leads us to one use of the roll of sticker stock that's included. A collection of filters and templates live under the + and – buttons includes the kind of cute graphic frames you'll see in arcade photo booths. Other templates provide a selection of other kinds of graphic overlays and there are a few filters to colorize (or de-colorize) your image. There is also a collection of virtually-mandatory ears, noses, cartoon smiles, and other selfie-enhancing essentials. You can even add a thirds-grid to the viewfinder to get your kids in the habit of good composition. Print quality is about what you would expect from thermal paper–it's not very forgiving. But with a fairly simple subject with good even lighting, you'll get decent result. In spite of this, the image processing software does a respectable job of emulating a few dozen steps of grayscale with minute variations of the width of the thermally-printed lines. The images are stored in full color, however. When plugged into your computer via USB, the camera automatically mounts as a USB drive with clearly- named folders for photos and videos. We can't exactly wax poetic over the image quality. The processing obviously involves a lot of sharpening and compression. But the results are on a par with the Kodak Brownie this reviewer started out with. As is true with any kind of photography, the art comes from the eye, not the camera. The fact is that there are kids who may be too young to be toting around a smartphone who have that eye. The $99.90 myFirst Camera Insta 2 may not be a professional's camera, but it could very well be a professional's first. For more information, visit: shop.oaxis.com