Smartparts SPDPF70E 7-Inch Acrylic Digital Picture Frame
Smartparts SPDPF70E 7-Inch Acrylic Digital Picture Frame
Show your pictures and share your memories with the Smartparts SPDPF70E 7-inch widescreen digital picture frame. The SPDPF70E makes it easy to enjoy your favorite photos with three easy steps used to upload pictures; Simply remove the memory card from your camera, insert the card into the frame and view your photos. The slideshow automatically begins once the frame is turned on and will scroll through each picture on your memory card. Optimize your pictures using OptiPix on your computer. OptiPix helps you change the orientation of you photos and sharpen images. Use OptiPix to find pictures, create copies, and transfer photos from your computer to your frame. Control the settings with the slide-out control panel which allows you to adjust brightness, scroll through pictures and other settings. The frame has an adjustable stand so you can place the frame vertically or horizontally on a shelf or table. The stylish SPDPF70E frame can compliment any room or office.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars It doesn’t suck. It’s just not very good.
I bought this with the walnut frame in 7″, electronically the same unit. It was cheap enough that I was willing to work around its limitations, which are:
- low dynamic range renders bright areas as white, darker areas as black rather than showing details in shadow or brightness
- low resolution: it’s 480×270 as best as I can tell, which I don’t call “hi-resolution”.
- can’t change speed that it cycles through photos
My workarounds are to manually edit and adjust the contrast and color gamut of my pictures and resize my images to 960×540, exactly 4x larger than the frame displays. Sure it’s wasted pixels, but when I buy another frame with the same ratio display, I won’t have to edit the pictures again and they’ll have high enough resolution to look good elsewhere. Use a decent photo editor like Adobe Photoshop Elements to adjust the dynamic range and pump up the saturation. DON’T use the included software Optipix Pro that’s bundled with the frame, it’s amazingly bad. It takes a directory of photos and resizes them to 1024×768 which isn’t the ratio of the frame’s display thus all pictures then have black bars on them. Dreadful. If you’re willing to edit your pictures it’s a decent, no-frills frame.
3 Stars Size Matters
Compared to the Smartparts SP72, this unit requires some care & handling. It couldn’t process full-size JPEG files (5-7 MB) with any speed at all. I had to resize the files to under 1 MB and reload before it could process them for a slideshow with reasonable speed. Resolution OK (480×234), don’t know if other makes at same res are sharper. Clear acrylic on black is a neat look, though.
1 Stars Wouldn’t bother
Got it as a gift. Not worth the cost (free). Terrible picture. can barely make out the image.
1 Stars Wow, is this AWFUL. DO NOT BUY!
Horrific picture. Terrible quality and on top of it, there is a laundry-list of restrictions on using the item, ranging from having a 6MP camera or higher, to no Macintosh! You can’t just take a jpeg and put it on a disk. This is a horribly designed product and the fact that they call it “smartparts” is irony of epic proportions.
Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.
3 Stars wont read cards more than 2 gb in capacity
cons:
Bad picture quality
no remote
no usb connectivity
poor software bundled
wont read cards more than 2 gb in capacity…..it simply hangs
pros:
looks stylish in the transparent frame!
for the price it is not so bad
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