Digital Photo Frames

[CoolToolGuy]

Just wondering if anyone else on the forum is using a digital frame.

I have one at work, and I just got a Kodak Smart Frame for home to convert my wife to digital.

If you have one (or more), what brand(s) and what do you like or dislike about what you have.

Have Fun,

[Scottes]

They look pretty cool - but what low resolutions! When they have one that 11x17 and can do 3000x2000 then I'll get one. :-)

[CoolToolGuy]

They look pretty cool - but what low resolutions! When they have one that 11x17 and can do 3000x2000 then I'll get one. :-)

Yeah, it is still a developing (no pun intended) market. The Kodak is optimized to 640x480, so I resize - 640x480 from the G3 and 900x600 from the Drebel. The resizing reduces the load time for each image. It looks good on the end table in the living room.

There are a couple other options currently available, including one 11x14 with 960x1280 from Digi-Frame. I'm watching to see if the technology makes a leap. The cost factor seems to be in the LCD screen. If the price of LCD screens comes down as predicted, digital frames may become more reasonable.

Have Fun,

[Scottes]

[quote=Scottes]There are a couple other options currently available, including one 11x14 with 960x1280 from Digi-Frame.

That's about 90ppi - good for about 5 or 6 feet away, I'd guess.

Then again, we're used to looking at pics. One of these might make a nice gift for a relative. And then you get to load it with 100 pictures and the relatives will "Ooh" and "Aaah" for weeks. :-)

Ouch! One site wants $2,000 for a 1024x768 DigiFrame... Ouch, I say!


Years ago I had a wish for a changing digital frame, kinda like these, but made to change slowly. Take a panorama in 360-degrees, and put it up on one of those 42" LCD screens. Change 1 pixel per second or something. Or take a picture every 5 minutes for a day, and change the images very slowly across the course of a day, so the picture matches the time of day...

But I'm going to have to hit the lottery before I could afford one...

[CoolToolGuy]

One of the issues with the Kodak, as with all LCD screens, is viewing angle. If you are not directly in front of it, the quality goes downhill in a hurry. Usually it gets someone's attention from a distance, and then they come and look at it more closely.

I am building a bunch of 'photo albums' on small-size CF cards. When I want to see something different I swap cards. Or if the certain relatives come over I'll load up the one with them in it.

The one that 17th Street sells has fade options, but I don't think it goes to the pixel level (yet).

Have Fun,