Sony DPF-D70 7-inch Digital Photo Frame
Sony DPF-D70 7-inch Digital Photo Frame
Experience full color, digital desk-top photos at an incredible value. This Sony Digital Photo Frame is a convenient device that lets you view and share your memories in brilliant, high-contrast color on a 7-inch LCD screen. You get 256MB of internal memory with optional image resizing to maximize internal memory, plus multiple display modes, including nine slideshow styles, to find the setting that you like most. A clock and a calendar is also included, and most memory card formats are supported.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Best picture, not optimal pixel ratio
As others have said, this has the best image quality I’ve seen on a frame (better than lots of cheaper lcd tvs actually). It is night and day better than our previous frame. The border is clean, and the frame looks very smooth. My only complaint (recommendation to others considering this purchase) would be to consider the 8 inch over the 7 if you just plan to copy pictures over from your camera. I prefer the image to fill up the frame, and since the 7inch ratio is 15:9 I had to crop the images to get them to fit the frame fully without any black borders. The 8 and 10 inch frames use a 4:3 ratio, which is the same as both of ours (and I assume most) digital cameras, without the need for adjustment.
Another suggestion to those considering just using the internal memory is to batch resize the photos, so instead of taking up 3-5Mb a picture with a higher res camers (this only fits around 100 pictures on the 512Mb internal, and 1/2 that on the 256) the images will only take up around 100k. You can do this easily by searching for the XP Powertoys Image resizer for WinXP, or Prish Resizer for Vista. Then you can select all your photos at once, and resize them all to 800×600 (the resolution of the 8 and 10 inch, and the x-resolution of the 7inch). This will save you lots of space, and let you pack a lot more pictures on sony’s relativly small internal memory, and you will not see a difference in the image quality, since sony has to downsize the image on display anyway to make it fit the 800×600, or 800×480 for 7inch frames.
2 Stars Close but not quite…..
Good Points:
Picture quality is great.
It’s easy to load pictures via computer our memory card.
Bad Point:
Compatability issues with pictures altered in Photoshop is a big problem.
Worst Point:
The lack of “randomness” in the random mode on this frame is frustrating and ridiculous. If I have several hundred pictures loaded, why does it get stuck on a few pictures and repeat those same pictures continuously? That’s pretty disappointing considering technology these days and that’s not a very complex function.
5 Stars Almost perfect!
I did quite a bit of online research before purchasing this frame. The thing that sold me on this versus other digital frames was that other reviewers talked about how easy it was to use. So true! I did not want to struggle with getting this to work and it really is very easy. I love the features on it, particularly the automatic rotation of the picture for the correct orientation. Picture quality is great. One feature that’s particularly nice is that one of the views shows both the picture and a clock with date/time at the same time, but the date/time is when the picture was taken. This is particularly “fun” because I loaded a number of pictures from vacations and the date is a nice reminder of when the trip was taken. The only negative is that it doesn’t take BMP pictures. I scanned a lot of old photos using bitmap but the frame wouldn’t read them. So I had to re-scan again as JPEG. One of the reasons I bought this frame was because of the large internal memory, but I quickly realized that I would need an external card. The only thing I would do differently is buy a 9″ frame rather than the 7″.
4 Stars Perfect Photo Frame for my office
I really like this photo frame I select Sony, because I was searching for product with high quality standards, and a good brand name.
This photo frame support many memories cards format BUT doesn’t support USB flash memories.
I like the calendar view, it displays in half of the screen a calendar with clock, and in the other half it displays my pictures.
also the display image is prety good, and the size 7″ is a good size to put the photo frame in your desk at the office.
5 Stars Excellent product–at least for now….
Read lots of reviews, learned that the picture quality was excellent, the viewing options perhaps excessive, and the price on the high side. All of this is true but I’m extremely pleased–and the price difference with the item on sale for $100 was about $25-50 and well worth it when compared to the alternatives I saw in the store and the one I gave to my daughter a year ago (costing $75). I should also mention that I had some difficulty downloading pictures from Picassa 3 on my desktop. I called Customer Support when the manual was of no help and Nina in Manilla walked me through it on screen. She was the best customer service person I’ve had in over five years! Congratulations, SONY!
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