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anyone know of a good digital picture frame?
ChadTower:
I always find it interesting when a new product type comes out and becomes a $150 solution to a $5 issue people have already been solving for 50 years. Howard is out there spending a good amount of time evaluating products, allocating spending money, etc for how to put pictures on the wall. That's not a criticism, BTW, I'm just a bit bemused by it.
hulkster:
wow shmokes! :applaud: what a cool project. you prompted me to google a diy picture frame and i came up with this site thats kinda dedicated to it. http://likelysoft.com/hacks/pictureframes.shtml its got different projects, but upon just clicking on a few, i found this very simple install that doesnt require any extra glueing per se. http://www.thewares.net/item/33 it does leave the back of it exposed, but its still pretty cool. i may make one of these for my office desk.
vader:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on December 12, 2007, 09:10:44 am ---
I always find it interesting when a new product type comes out and becomes a $150 solution to a $5 issue people have already been solving for 50 years. Howard is out there spending a good amount of time evaluating products, allocating spending money, etc for how to put pictures on the wall. That's not a criticism, BTW, I'm just a bit bemused by it.
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Have you tried hanging hundreds of pictures on your walls lately ? :applaud:
with that, I picked this one up for my sister. It included a 2 gb card, but no wifi. Since she's not computer savvy, I'll be loading pictures on the card for her, pre-loaded about 25 on so far. The only thing I don't like is the 16:9 format, although it does a good job of self cropping.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882590001
edit for link
boykster:
Its frustrating; the deluge of 16:9 digital picture frames is due to lcd manufacturers ramping up that aspect for portable DVD players and the like, with surplus production being used for other purposes. Its silly (but cheap) to make digital picture frames out of these since pretty much no digital cameras shoot 16:9 native pictures...
:dunno
patrickl:
I gave a Philips picture frame to my wife a couple of years ago. Great screen although extremely expensive (it was the only really usable one a few years ago)
That was a 3:2 screen (IIRC something like 720x480). My camera is a Digital SLR so it does indeed give 3:2 pictures, but I found that all compact camera's use 4:3. I ended up cropping the 4:3 pictures a little.
BTW portrait pictures are really poor on these picture frames (when put horizontal) You either need two or just use horizontally orientated pictures.
I set up a workflow in photoshop to treat the pictures for this frame. It needed extra contrast, slight color changes, scaling (and extra sharpness due to the scaling blur)
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