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11/16/2007 03:51:57 AM · #1 |
| Any recommendations? I'd like to find a square one - I don't shoot in a single aspect ratio - but I haven't had any luck with a quick search using Google (other than a very small keychain frame.) I'm looking to get a couple as Christmas presents for family - I'll provide the pictures to start with but they can add as they want. |
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11/16/2007 04:17:01 AM · #2 |
| kodak i think has a sweet one that looks nice no lines on the screen, i think its a lcd, and it plays music and videos. otherwise i got a cheep philips works for just photos, battery life sucks unless plugged in |
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11/16/2007 07:10:19 AM · #3 |
got one offered. Telefunken. Picture quality is, IMHO, low. And not sure it's much worse than others in the market. Too contrasty. Little detail in highlights/shadows.
And it's indeed rectangular, so when you do a slide show and one photo is not in the correct orientation, so the frame rotates it but then, it's a bit ridiculous to have a small picture in a larger frame.
Message edited by author 2007-11-16 07:49:06. |
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11/16/2007 07:31:44 AM · #4 |
There are plenty in the market.
I remember researching them a month or so back to gift my gf in chicago and found anything from $100 to $400 and even upwards.
There are ones with Wi-fi, rotate sensitive and ofcourse playback options. I think Cnet has a comparo article somewhere.
If I weren't in a rush I'd have found some links I have buried in my HDD somewhere.
I think my conclusion was a $115 7" frame (i forget the manufacturer). I would have bought it only if I hadnt come across the VS website ;-)
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11/16/2007 08:38:17 AM · #5 |
I bought the Kodak one. Pic quality is great and yes, it will also play music (mp3). I like that all I have to do is load a memory card & stick it in the right card slot and that's it. Nothing complicated and easy to change around.
I got mine to take with me when I'm shooting events on location, but when I'm at home it hangs on the wall in my office. I have about 200 images rotating right now & clients love it.
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11/16/2007 08:50:30 AM · #6 |
To  saurabhv - VS website??
To  idnic - what size did you get? How badly does it look if the opposite orientation comes up? (ie you have the frame horizontal and a vertical shot comes up?)
Thanks for the info, folks! |
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11/16/2007 09:05:14 AM · #7 |
I actually created my own digital picture frame with great success before they started selling them about 2 years ago.
It was a great DIY project and it worked out beautifully.
I took an old laptop (pentium ii) and did a bare installation of linux (slackware) as the OS. I bought a wifi card (buffalo seems to be the most compatiable) and installed it in the pcmcia slot. Then a black shadowbox that was slightly thicker than the laptop.
I removed the lcd from the top cover and reversed it. Gently screwed it down to the keyboard side of the laptop. I noticed (since this was an old laptop) the LCD did not have a good viewing angle from the top down. It was much better if you were looking from the bottom up (this is the correct orientation, but when mounted to the keyboard side it was reveresed). So when I mounted the laptop in the shadowbox I did so upside down.
The best part is the software scripts I gathered and wrote.
I added all the wifi capabilities and got the thing on my network. Using a framebuffer viewer (this is an alternative to installing the XWindows system, allowing for console picture viewing) I wrote a couple lines so the pictures would appear as a slide show.
I don't know if anyone knows the API functionalities of FLICKR.COM but it is a very easy and heavily modified site. So using a perl script the laptop authenticates to my Flickr account every hour or so and checks for updates. If there are any new pictures it will download them and re-start the slide show.
This is especially nice because I plan on distributing a couple of these old laptops around my family. So whenever something happens and a great picture is taken my Aunt in South Carolina can upload it to the group Flickr Account and it will show up on my Grandmother's wifi picture frame in South Florida.
If anyone is interested I will be happy to take some photos of this setup. It has been so long since I've fiddled with it and I would like to re-learn what I did so I can create a few more picture frames. |
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11/16/2007 09:10:00 AM · #8 |
| Hah, that is an awesome project totaldis. |
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11/16/2007 09:12:36 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
To saurabhv - VS website??
To idnic - what size did you get? How badly does it look if the opposite orientation comes up? (ie you have the frame horizontal and a vertical shot comes up?)
Thanks for the info, folks! |
I rotated all of my images before I dropped them on the card so they don't come up sideways. The portrait ones do get a black border on each side. Since the frame is black it really doesn't look strange.
Edit: I think mine is 5X6 or something, its an odd ratio.
Message edited by author 2007-11-16 09:13:11.
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11/16/2007 09:38:10 AM · #10 |
Heh, totaldis, I think I'll stick with purchasing frames. :-)
And yeah, Cindi, I figured the rotation thing, just wondered if they looked tiny in the opposite orientation. 5x6 would actually be a pretty decent ratio, I'd think. |
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11/16/2007 10:20:37 AM · #11 |
Between my boyfriend & I we've bought 3 of these EASYSHARE SV1011 Digital Picture Frame for gifts, they are really nice. I think they're pretty similar to the ones idnic mentioned. They are very nice, picture & sound quality are very good.
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11/16/2007 11:26:49 AM · #12 |
| When comparing photo frames, pay attention not only to screen size (eg. 8 vs 10 inches diagonal etc) but also resolution (eg. 800x600 vs 640x400 pixels etc). They often do not go hand in hand, screen resolution information is not always mentioned in advertisements and web listings and thus requires a little extra effort to elucidate, and in many instances screen resolution has a bigger impact than screen size on picture quality. If possible, try to seen one in person (or get a recommendation from someone who has one, as you are doing), because quality varies tremendously. (Bought one a year ago, but can't tell you the brand/model number as it was a gift for someone else. Sorry.) |
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11/16/2007 02:03:19 PM · #13 |
Now they might be a little more expensive than what you are looking for...and might not be the exact thing, but my parents have loved their first generation Cieva Digital Frame. You have to pay for a membership to be able to have the frame connect to the website and download the images but once they are on there you can actually let it lapse (like my parents did) and still view the images on there. You can even order prints right from the frame itself.
They really found it useful because there is 8 of us kids spread out across the US and we could just log in, upload images to our perspective album and it would automatically download 20 images to their frame at the scheduled time (or manually too). I think we paid the membership for about 3 years before the kids stopped adding images. What I liked about this one verses my previous version is that you set everything up from the website, so you can set it all up then send it to family and all they need to do is plug it in. The new ones even have wireless abilities so even nicer.
When I got my mom's I got a rebate deal and they offered a free second frame instead of the actual money back...couldn't pass that up.
I have looked at quite a few of the digital frames and pretty much like them all just glad I'm not serious about getting one cause I don't want to have to choose which one lol.
Good luck on your hunt. |
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12/11/2007 06:14:57 PM · #14 |
Does anyone have the Panidigital 10.4 photo frame? If so, how is it?
I've been trying to look at the specs of several brands, most of them offer a 250.0 contrast (I think it is, as I am going by memory here, I believe the best you can get is 1000).
Plus I've been checking out the resolution and am leaning towards the 800 x 600 size.
The reason I ask is because I am looking at buying this for an Xmas gift.
No doubt several of us will get them, I just received a Kodakshare 7" one. :-)
Thanks!
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12/11/2007 09:48:08 PM · #15 |
Christmas is coming, I just received a Panidigital 10.4 photo frame from my sister. I love it very much, with the Digital Photo Frame form Pandigital I can transfer images directly from my digital camera, MP3 player, USB drive or memory card directly into the 256MB of on-board memory included in the frame. Also connects easily to my personal computer for easy file transfer of images, movies, music or more. And she got it at a deal site for $249, you can look up
//www.dealstudio.com/searchdeals.php?deal_id=72484 |
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12/12/2007 10:33:43 AM · #16 |
^ good resolution but expensive, and still not square aspect like the OP was asking about.
I searched a bit and didn't find any square ones. I'm solving the portrait vs. landscape issue by getting two 3:2 frames, and will load vertical photos on one and horizontal photos on the other. Now, that doesn't help all my square-cropped shots :-) but they'll be the same either way. |
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