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Sony DPF-D80 8-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame (Black) |
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Sony DPF-D80 8-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame (Black)
Get more entertainment from your photos with Sony?s DPF-D80 Digital Photo Frame. Store up to 500 1.5 MP images that you can display as single pictures, multiple thumbnails, or slideshow presentations. The 7-inch widescreen (4:3) LCD screen showcases your cherished memories in VGA resolution (800 x 600) and vivid color, while an Auto Orientation sensor automatically rotates your photos into portrait or landscape format. Direct USB input from most digital cameras and support for most memory cards makes it easy for virtually anyone to transfer photos and relive meaningful events. Clock and calendar display modes and an included remote control provide added convenience.
Sony DPF-D80 8-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame (Black) Accessories
Sony DPF-D80 8-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame (Black) Reviews
While the quality of picture is great, sony photo frames DO NOT show photos that have been edited. This is not a always a problem but I have a large number of photos that will not display. I have emailed sony support who were completely useless and had no intention of being helpful. they kept refering me to their manual for the frame which I had already read and decided was no help. The photos show fine on any computer so I asked for a product to convert them to a format sony found acceptable and was told Sony does not recommend third party products!!!
As a result I am sorry I purchased this Sony picture frame DPF-D72n and I believe the problem to be common to all SOny frames. Their support for their expensive product was pitiful.
Our Family bought this as a gift for our grandparents and it didn't disappoint. Everyone enjoys sharing their family pictures with our grandparents. The quality is excellent. The pictures are highly visible. All in all a great product.
I have had this now for 5 months and love it. It was easy to use (and I am somewhat electronically handicapped). I loaded pics that I had scanned along with many from my digital camera. I have it on my desk at work and use the calendar and time display along with he photos. I received a lot of compliments on the quality from people coming throught the office. I have it preset to come on at 7:00 and going off at 4:00 so I don't have to worry about turning it off at night. I purchased one for my mom for Christmas and I know she will love it. I plan to get one for my daughter and in-laws next Christmas.
Based on the reviews I purchased this frame as a gift. I planned to load it with scanned old family photographs and a few digital camera images. It's the first digital frame I purchased. It was not a pleasant experience. It's an attractive frame and displays pictures well once you get them loaded in the order you want them displayed. If you have a significant number of photos and scanned images to display in a specific order you may be in for a rough ride.
From the manual: "The photo frame can display JPEG image files compatible with DCF format or RAW files taken by a Sony digital camera. Any other file (such as files made or edited by using computer or RAW files taken by digital cameras other than Sony digital cameras may not be displayed." To me this proprietary behavior is unacceptable.
I had 160 old family picture scans and a few photographs to display in chronological order. All the images received some post processing in PhotoShop Elements 6, were saved as JPGs, and loaded on a compact flash card. The frame would not display them. All I had were "?s". The manual was of no help. It took an internet search to learn Sony's requirements. The images must be stored in two folders with specific names and labeled using a specific filename format. The outer folder must be labeled DCIM. The second folder must be in the DCIM folder and labeled 100MSCEF. All the images must be in the 100MSCEF folder and follow the DSCxxxxx.JPG format where the x's are numeric characters, for example DSC00100.JPG. This filing format must be followed whether or not you want the photos displayed in some specific order or randomly.
The frame will not display images processed with Adobe PhotoShop and saved as JPGs. To display them each image was opened and saved with Microsoft's Paint. To put them in chronological order all the images were reprocessed in the order I wanted them displayed, run them through Paint in the order I wanted them displayed, and written to the compact flash card per the above filing structure. Filenames such as DSC00001.JPG, DSC00002.JPG, DSC00003.JPG, etc. will not display the images in the order you want them displayed. Apparently, the filename is meaningless, but it must follow the specific format.
From the manual: "When images are edited or saved on a computer, the modification date of the images may change. In this case, the index display may not be displayed in the order of shooting date due to the modification of shooting date."
Will I purchase another Sony digital frame - probably not. I almost returned this one.
Got it as a birthday gift back in August. Although the image qualify is good on this frame, the ability to "randomly" display all the pictures doesn't seem to work. Each time the frame is tuned on, the random mode always shows you the same pictures in the same order. I don't know if there's any software out there from Sony that'll fix this problem. Unfortunately, I don't turn on the frame as much as I would like to because I am sort of sick of the same old picture showing over and over without any chance of a different set of pictures. Sad and annoying, really.
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