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Advantages Inexpensive, reasonable quality, easy to use, simple to upload photos from Windows computers

Disadvantages Few features, tricky to upload photos from a Mac

We’re not generally what my younger son calls ‘early adopters’ of new technology. So, although I had seen one or two digital photo frames by the end of 2008, it really hadn’t occurred to me that we would ever have one ourselves. I take thousands of photos, have a selection printed for albums, and a very small number enlarged to go in frames. But the majority stay, unnoticed, in archive form on my hard drive.

My younger son decided that he wanted to give us something different for Christmas to make up for his not coming home that year. He didn’t have a lot of money, being a student, but decided that, if at all possible, he would buy us a digital photo frame. He researched the available options and read several reviews. Then, from amongst those in his budget, he chose the Mustek PF-A702B.

Reasons for this choice


- Our son liked the appearance. It has a smart matt black frame with a clear perspex outer one. The height of the screen itself is approximately that of regular-sized prints.

The digital photo frame sits on one of our bookshelves, inconspicuous and ready for use
- Photos are uploaded and shown via a standard SD card, the same as the ones we use in our digital cameras.

- It was on special offer at Play.com!

Initial feelings


We were surprised and delighted by this unexpected gift. it came in a cardboard box with a separate plug and lead, which slotted easily into one of the sockets on the frame. Instructions were minimal, but the SD card was in place - our son had put a few family photos on it already - so we placed it on a shelf and hit the ‘play’ button.

One or two of the photos looked a little strange, but we quickly realised that this was because the format of the frame - 16x9 ratio - was not the same as our normal print ratio. The effect was of a made-for-TV film ‘stretched’ to fit a wide-screen television. Happily, however, one of the buttons on the top allowed us to adjust this, enabling us to see the photos as they were meant to be.

Quality


This frame resolution is 480 pixels, which is rather less than more modern digital frames, but seemed perfectly adequate at the time; indeed, it still does. Close to, the pictures naturally look a little pixellated, but at a distance, they are quite acceptable. The colours are perhaps a bit over-bright, but, again, not bad; we realised when uploading further photos that we could experiment on the computer to adjust colours to suit the frame better.

The default option is for the gadget to scroll through the photos stored on it, with a few seconds in between each one. We often switch ours on if we have visitors, who can then see a selection of our pictures if they wish. Although digital photo frames are much commoner these days than they were at first, they still seem to be something of a novelty for a lot of people.

Uploading photos


From a Windows computer with a card reader, this is extremely easy. The card, when slotted into the computer, becomes an external drive and photos can be dragged and dropped from folders. We find it best to crop them first in Picasa or other photo editing software to the 16x9 size; obviously landscape style works better than portrait.
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The digital photo frame sits on one of our bookshelves, inconspicuous and ready for use
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