8 Digital Photo Frame

We present you the 8 digital photo frame from Sony – DPF-D82. A good looking frame, with interesting clean design and easy to use. Just plug it in and use the remote to set it up. It weights about 3.7 punds and its dimension are: 13.5 x 9 x 4.2 inches. On Sony’s fine print it says it can hold up to 2000 images with it’s internal memory of 1GB. Of course, you will be happy if you fit 200 images in it, but you’ll probably put less. I don’t suppose anyone will be putting images of 100kb, am I right? But the internal memory is a good thing and it’s pretty big. Remember that you can always buy additional cards for it. It support the following types of card slots: SD, MS, xD, and CF.

It also has an alarm function included and it has the ability to auto-rotate the images. It’s made in a way that only Sony can make – an incredibly user-friendly way and it is really easy to set up and use. You will have no problem with that. And maybe one of the most important factors – the picture quality. Although it has a WVGA resolution of 800 x 480, the picture quality is surprisingly good and with a very vivid color. It has a screen aspect ratio of 15:9, which is a little unusual, but fine. Unfortunately you do not get any special accessories with this item. The pictures can be presented in 3 different ways. As single pictures, slideshow presentation or as multiple thumbnails. It also contains a cool search function to easily go through and find your images.

A thing that I have heard people were complaining about is the customer support that they got from Sony. A guy that I know also bought this product and has had some weird problems with it, when copying pictures form his MAC to the frame. Eventually he solved the problems, but took him a while. It is not a common problem for MACs, though. This was just something that he messed up. If you do encounter any problems with this 8 digital photo frame you can always come here and leave a comment and we will reply as soon as possible.

With its sleek and good looking black design, the Sony DPF-D82 8 Digital Photo Frame sure leaves a good impression on the buyers. I believe it is only available in black. The price has been over $100 usually, but I think you can get it at Amazon for about $100 or less.

Digital photo frames have become more popular over the last years and are now something that can easily replace your regular non-digital photo frames. The digital ones, of course, have a lot of advantages. Most of them come in sizes from 7″ to 12″. Some of the older digital frames only support JPG files, while the news one support a lot more files. Even files like avi, mp3, mp4, wav are supported. So, basicaly you can play a movie on your 8″ digital photo frame. I am sure that will get the attention of your guests. Besides that, it also has a slideshow option. You can set the slideshow timer anyway way you wish.

Be careful when setting up your pictures. If your digital frame is set to show landscapes, long-sided pictures on the bottom, then you have to rotate your pictures before uploading them onto the frame. In Vista and Windows 7 you can do the rotation by opening the picture and just click the rotating arrows.

Another factor that is important is the screen resolution. I do not recommend getting a frame with a resolution lower than 1024×768. But I will talk more about the resolution and the aspect ratio in an upcoming article. Besides that, some of the frames can have internal memory. If you take your pictures with cameras of 8mpx or higher then you would need quite an internal memory to place, say 20 pictues. I will talk more about internal and external memory later.

In conclusion – a digital photo frame sure is a great thing to have. It’s not that expensive, and if you’re a picture-lover person then you shouldn’t be thinking much about buying it.