 Elegant beautiful centerpiece with amazing picture quality. |
| Review Date: July 17, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Martin, Tucson, AZ |
I've been on the market for picture frame after purchasing an affordable kodak picture frame for my girlfriend. I decided our apartment was not going to be like my aunt's where there is a family picture lining every wall in the home. I wanted something that could look good even turned off. This is it. Of course Sony brings their aesthetic talents to create sophisticated beautiful looking frame. The picture frame is solid glossy black and the Sony logo glows bright white when turned on. You also have the option of turning off the logo if it cramps your style. The picture quality is crystal clear, bright and sharp even on my old scanned photos. The viewing options are plentiful and fade in and out flawlessly kind of drawing you in the show. I love the calender and clock settings which gives this frame a practical use. You can choose only the calendar, only the clock or both with pictures at the same time on a side box.
Now the bad: It not only requires a power cord but the end has a buldge wich made it very hard for me to conceal the power cord on my bookcase. I had to hide the power cord since it would not slip in through the cracks on the back of my bookcase. This also makes it a no go for coffee table. It's very noticible when it's out in the open. Luckily I hid it very well and it's not noticible in my case. The only other bad point is the price. It is quite expensive for picture fram but you can clearly see why. It's so sophisticated looking that it looks expnsive. The lcd looks like it's thick glass and the black frame is glossy. No doubt the materials used were quality materials.
If you have the money, I highly recommend it. Also, I bought this on the Sony website for 139.00. As usual amazon comes out with a deal after I buy it. So if you do buy it, buy it from amazon. |
For the effort...
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| Review Date: December 24, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Daniel Lee, |
I will add pro's and con's at the end of this message. First I would like to say that this frame caught my eye when I was shopping for a Christmas present for my sister and her husband. This is my first photo frame but I have purchased three, Sony being the one I purchased for myself. I really like the small size of the frame and I especially like that the frame is not three dimensional (i.e. regular wood, plastic or metal frames with glass protector) but one piece with a plastic covering and the digital viewer inside. I shopped around for several: HP, Kodak, Hanspree... but found that this frame best suited my needs. Now fo the pro's and con's:
Pro's:
-Sony brand
-Small compact size, making it one piece
-All the features including the multipicture viewing, clock, calendar and random playback
-Automatic image orientation
-remote
Con's:
-Sony brand, which means Sony price...
-Lack of MP3 playback
-Lack of Video playback (My mothers Target brand frame I got her had these features and I bought it for her when digital frames were just coming out! Sony had how many years to remedy this??)
-AC Adapter placement in the back of the frame (it is practically placed right where the prop up stand is located making it sort of a headache to navigate the cord and stand)
-Random feature very often plays pictures you've just viewed. I have nearly 400 pictures in my frame and it plays the same several photos more often than the ones I have not seen)
-Lack of Shuffle feature |
Best picture, not optimal pixel ratio
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| Review Date: July 12, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Adam N. Marr, Richmond, VA USA |
As others have said, this has the best image quality I've seen on a frame (better than lots of cheaper lcd tvs actually). It is night and day better than our previous frame. The border is clean, and the frame looks very smooth. My only complaint (recommendation to others considering this purchase) would be to consider the 8 inch over the 7 if you just plan to copy pictures over from your camera. I prefer the image to fill up the frame, and since the 7inch ratio is 15:9 I had to crop the images to get them to fit the frame fully without any black borders. The 8 and 10 inch frames use a 4:3 ratio, which is the same as both of ours (and I assume most) digital cameras, without the need for adjustment.
Another suggestion to those considering just using the internal memory is to batch resize the photos, so instead of taking up 3-5Mb a picture with a higher res camers (this only fits around 100 pictures on the 512Mb internal, and 1/2 that on the 256) the images will only take up around 100k. You can do this easily by searching for the XP Powertoys Image resizer for WinXP, or Prish Resizer for Vista. Then you can select all your photos at once, and resize them all to 800x600 (the resolution of the 8 and 10 inch, and the x-resolution of the 7inch). This will save you lots of space, and let you pack a lot more pictures on sony's relativly small internal memory, and you will not see a difference in the image quality, since sony has to downsize the image on display anyway to make it fit the 800x600, or 800x480 for 7inch frames. |
Sony Got It Right Yet Again
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| Review Date: October 25, 2008 |
| Reviewer: biz wiz, |
The pros:
In the somewhat new digital picture frame market Sony got it right.
The frame looks like just about any other Sony product: tastefully done with a simple and polished design and outstanding quality. The interior box might as well be used for jewelery with its silver logo imprint and glossy finish.
The frame itself has a surprising number of features (clock, calendar, display modes, transition modes, mixed modes, and so on) for a "low end" frame, but at the same time is ready to work right out of the box. The back lit logo looks gorgeous (and can be turned off too) and the remote (yes, a remote) is slick and covers all functions available. There is an array of media slots in the back to accommodate most digital camera storage card types; i.e. pull out of your camera, insert in the frame, and press play. It is that simple. For those "weird" formats, there is a mini USB port, so you are covered in all circumstances. Of course the most important part, the screen, is just Sony-style amazing, especially considering the price. Back light and contrast adjustments are also there.
The cons:
On a few pictures the colors seemed almost unnaturally bright. In Sony's defense: those were taken with a Canon. My Sony camera, understandably, seems to just "love" the frame. The wide screen format might require some tweaking of some of your pictures to fill the screen. In any case, if you are the lazy type, there are zoom/stretch options to do the job for you. The one thing that just caught me off guard: there is no USB cable included with the frame. Just because everything works with USB these days, does not mean that everyone has a mini USB handy (I used the one from my cell phone to test the device)!
In short: I'd buy another one in a heartbeat. |
Great Frame with One Small Glitch
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| Review Date: November 23, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Christopher J. Toy, |
I bought this frame as a gift. I filled it with family photos. We shall see how it goes over this holiday season.
It's extremely easy to use. Once plugged in and connected to the computer, the computer recognizes it as a portable memory device and opens a window. Just create a folder with any name you choose and fill it with photos. Drag the photos to the folder in the frame memory. As soon as you disconnect the cable, the pictures begin showing on the frame. I have a feeling that the frame will work just as easily with a memory card. Finally, without reading the instructions I was able to figure out how to set the clock and the calendar. To get at all the features, reading the instruction would help. (If you don't connect it to a computer right away, the frame will automatically start up an instruction slide show. If you want to sit and watch, the frame will show you how to use it.)
Finally, the glitch! The "Mode" button allows you to cycle through the various ways of viewing the frame. I thought that the most practical application was the simultaneous showing of the analogue clock and picture. However, although the clock was accurately set, when in the simultaneous mode, the clock did not show the right time. This "feature" was a bit of a mystery which I have not yet solved. Since I am giving one of these frames to each of my three kids, maybe they will figure out the solution to this mystery.
This frame is so nice looking that I plan to buy one for myself. Hopefully, my kids will have figured out the glitch before I get one. |
Close but not quite.....
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| Review Date: August 5, 2009 |
| Reviewer: H J, Florida |
Good Points:
Picture quality is great.
It's easy to load pictures via computer our memory card.
Bad Point:
Compatability issues with pictures altered in Photoshop is a big problem.
Worst Point:
The lack of "randomness" in the random mode on this frame is frustrating and ridiculous. If I have several hundred pictures loaded, why does it get stuck on a few pictures and repeat those same pictures continuously? That's pretty disappointing considering technology these days and that's not a very complex function. |
Almost perfect!
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| Review Date: August 5, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Susan K. Barajas, |
| I did quite a bit of online research before purchasing this frame. The thing that sold me on this versus other digital frames was that other reviewers talked about how easy it was to use. So true! I did not want to struggle with getting this to work and it really is very easy. I love the features on it, particularly the automatic rotation of the picture for the correct orientation. Picture quality is great. One feature that's particularly nice is that one of the views shows both the picture and a clock with date/time at the same time, but the date/time is when the picture was taken. This is particularly "fun" because I loaded a number of pictures from vacations and the date is a nice reminder of when the trip was taken. The only negative is that it doesn't take BMP pictures. I scanned a lot of old photos using bitmap but the frame wouldn't read them. So I had to re-scan again as JPEG. One of the reasons I bought this frame was because of the large internal memory, but I quickly realized that I would need an external card. The only thing I would do differently is buy a 9" frame rather than the 7". |
Picture Perfect!
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| Review Date: August 29, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Graphics Designer, Seattle, WA |
| I bought this for my husband's desk at work. He LOVES it! It has a crystal clear picture quality, is the perfect size for his desk, doesn't take up too much room, yet is very stylish and draws your eye to it. We love all the options it has. It takes all our different camera cards. The one thing that we really wish it had was the ability to play by file name. |
Amazing quality... just remember it is not for everyone.
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| Review Date: July 19, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Ducks Line 916 (a.k.a. Ed C.), Cerritos, CA United States |
| Sony has a specific target audience in mind when they developed the S-Frames. This is not for you if you want to show lots of photos, enough to max out the 200 MB of usable space (that's more than enough for me - if I want to show more photos I can clear out the old photos for more), and is not for the bargain hunter. If you value picture quality, this is it. I leaned toward the DPF-D70, as I find its larger brother to be costlier and a bit too big for my needs. |
Great photo frame!
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| Review Date: September 1, 2008 |
| Reviewer: B. Schaffhausen, |
I bought this as a present for my fiance and she loves it. I was worried because I had read a lot of reviews about digital photo frames having poor usability, but this frame is simple to use. All you need to do is plug in a memory card with photos and away it goes. I was was surprised by the 'clock' and 'calender' modes- they're really neat. The manual is helpful and accurate. The auto-rotate works slick.
PS (the "Sony" logo at the bottom is a light, but it can be turned off in the settings) |
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