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Getting a few reviews in the pipeline now. RRCs will be returned.
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As the summer drags on some surprise 50th Birthday presents have been arriving. From my sister (who is quite poorly at the moment) and my brother I received this rather natty digital photo frame, which was a nice surprise.
It is a neat item, with a seven inch LCD screen and three interchangeable frame surrounds, one metal, one white and one black.
On the back are the buttons that control the menus and inputs for memory cards and a USB port, so that you can display pictures straight out of the camera or from a memory stick or via a USB cable from a PC.
There is even a remote control so that you can control the display and choose the next picture, rotate, stretch or generally mess about with the pictures.
That's the basic description, what about my opinion of the product?
There is a stand that screws onto the back so that you can stand the frame in either landscape or portrait mode and a connector for plugging in the AC adapter.
When you turn it on it searches for a data source and will automatically display any images it finds.
It can read SD, MMC, MS and XD cards and it displays JPEG files.
The instruction booklet is quite thick but fear not, only the first six pages are in English. In any event it is pretty self-explanatory and I only read those six pages for reference purposes.
It offers golden nuggets of advice, such as a warning about using it in water, cleaning it with a scouring pad, placing near heat sources or handling in a generally inappropriate manner.
With all this in mind I extracted the card from my digital camera and inserted it into the slot. It is quite a tight fit (oooer missus) but once I worked out which way round it went it slipped in easily (ooer again)
Without fuss it displayed pretty creditable versions of my most recent photos, which included a civil ceremony, Whitby Abbey and several morris dance teams snapped at the recent Swanage Folk Festival.
You can set the duration of each picture from five to thirty seconds or use the remote to advance them manually.
I am planning to take a long sequence of shots of Buttons, my ventriloquist doll, and play them in a slow animated show.
Although I don't officially know what was paid for it, I see that it was £49.99 from Argos, which seems pretty fair to me and certainly a lot cheaper than the ones I was looking at a couple of years ago.
One word of advice I would give, if you are preparing a picture show remember to select images that are all the same way up, my camera card had a mixture of portrait and landscape and it was hard to decide whether to rotate the frame or turn onto my side.
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