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Sony DPF-D80 8-Inch LCD Digital Photo Frame (Black)
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Product Description
Get more entertainment from your photos with Sony’s DPF-D80 Digital Photo Frame. Store up to 500 1.5 MP images that you can display as single pictures, multiple thumbnails, or slideshow presentations. The 7-inch widescreen (4:3) LCD screen showcases your cherished memories in VGA resolution (800 x 600) and vivid color, while an Auto Orientation sensor automatically rotates your photos into portrait or landscape format. Direct USB input from most digital cameras and support for most memory cards makes it easy for virtually anyone to transfer photos and relive meaningful events. Clock and calendar display modes and an included remote control provide added convenience.
Product Details
- Size: 8-Inch
- Color: Black
- Brand: Sony
- Model: DPF-D80
- Dimensions: 4.00" h x 9.00" w x 13.43" l, 3.90 pounds
- Native resolution: 8
- Display size: 8
Features
- 8-inch display; 4:3 aspect ratio; 800 x 600 resolution
- Includes 256MB internal memory, with optional image resizing (to maximize internal memory).
- Compatible with all main memory card types
- Auto orientation sensor and auto image rotation
- Features 10 slideshow styles, 2 clock modes, calendar mode, and 2 index views
Editorial Reviews
From the Manufacturer
From the Manufacturer
Now you can display your digital photo collection in breathtakingly vivid color--on an 8-inch Sony Digital Photo Frame. Choose from a variety of slide show options, and watch your photo memories come to life on this stylish frame. And when not displaying images, you can set it to one of its clock or calendar modes--making it a great addition to any home or office.
Sony DPF-D80 Highlights
Easy two-step operation. The S-Frame offers easy, convenient operation for all users. All you need do is follow a simple two-step procedure: First, shoot a photo and save to memory; second, insert the memory media into the S-Frame and enjoy your photos..
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- Full-function remote control All the functions of the S-Frame can be operated by the compact remote control that provides maximum functionality with amazing ease of use. There are no complicated set-up or difficult operating procedures with the S-Frame.
- One-button control The "View Mode" button, on both the remote control and main body, provides simple and convenient functionality. Simply pressing this one button lets you switch view options within each of the four display modes: Slideshow, Index, Still image, and Clock & calendar. For example, you can switch from "single," "multi-image," "clock," or "calendar" to "random" view in Slideshow mode, and from "analogue" to "digital" in Clock mode.
Automatic rotation of images The photo frame automatically rotates images to their proper orientation. Images are also automatically rotated when the photo frame is set in either the portrait or landscape position.
True-to-life detail Every nuance of the original image is faithfully reproduced on the S-Frame thanks to the high-quality WVGA LCD. The 1.15 megapixel high-definition Clear Photo LCD renders tremendously detailed, realistic images that have vivid colors and contrast, and a sense of naturalness so real that you feel you could reach into the photo and touch what you see.
Fit to screen, or full image--it's your choice The S-Frame offers both fit-to-screen and full-image modes. In fit-to-screen mode, the aspect ratio of the image is adjusted so that the image fills the entire screen. In full-image mode, the image is displayed in the original horizontal-to-vertical ratio, surrounded by margins on all four sides. The DPF-D80 offers a 4:3 aspect ratio.
Future camera milestone ready The S-Frame can display images of up to 48 megapixels, which supports most compact and DSLR cameras, a significant design breakthrough realized by the foresight of Sony--a leader in the digital imaging industry.
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Handles large data files The S-Frame can also handle data files up to 100MB in size. This means that image files that have been edited on a PC, which tends to increase file size, can be displayed smoothly.
Room for all your memories The large internal memory offers room to store hundreds of your most precious memories. The DPF-D80 has a 256MB internal memory that holds up to 500 images. The S-Frame enables you to save the data saved in its internal memory to other memory cards.
Fast beyond expectations What's even more impressive about the S-Frame is that it does all this quickly, without the frustration of waiting ages for images to load. All S-Frames offer fast image decoding, eliminating the frustration of waiting ages for images to load from memory cards or the internal memory. On models equipped with a BIONZ processor, this speed is truly phenomenal and even a 12-megapixel photo taken on a Cyber-shot W200 can be displayed in just 1.7 seconds. (For the D70 without BIONZ, images are displayed in 1.9 seconds.)
Create original photo albums The S-Frame offers you an endless variety of ways to create your own unique digital photo albums for yourself and friends. The photo album function copies data in memory cards, automatically resizing photos to optimum image size (equivalent to 1.5 megapixels) and storing them in the album's large internal memory, ready for instant replay.
The gift that keeps on giving One of the greatest joys you can give someone is a never-fading memory of a shared experience, or one that they missed. The S-Frame makes a perfect time capsule of such treasured moments. Simply load one with memories, repack it and send it to friends or family. All the receiver has to do is take the S-Frame out of the box and turn it on, and a pre-programmed slideshow will start automatically. The joy of giving was never easier.
Customer Reviews
Beautiful Pics
After doing a ton of research, I settled on this frame mostly by process of elimination (and the fact that while there are not a ton of reviews on Sony frames, they are mostly all good). I eliminated many others because (1) most other frames are not in the 4:3 aspect ratio (meaning black bars on your pics); (2) most other frames have mediocre reviews (for example, no Kodak frame (the market leader) does better then 3.5 stars on Amazon over tons of reviews; and (3) many frames by lesser known brands appear to have serious and scary quality control issues that are ignored/not caught by professional reviews, but show up in user reviews.
This frame definitely costs more for the size and features, but the pics look awesome, and I'm confident that if there is a problem, I have a reliable company to go to. It was super easy to get set up, I put 350 pics in a folder, ran a batch resizer on them to get them to 800x600 (not really necessary given the amount of on-board memory on the unit, but the I figured my PC plus a good free resizer program would probably do better then the unit itself at resizing), connected the frame by USB cable to the PC and copied that folder to the unit and that was pretty much that. For the price, a bigger picture frame would be nice, but really the 8 inch screen size is great for your desk at work.
great but some things to know
...bought this as a gift and combed my hard drive for images the recipient would like. found 600 of them. tried to copy to a 2G SD card, because frame itself couldn't handle that much data on its own (tried a batch resizer but that somehow prevented auto-orientation so half the pics were distorted- no good). kept getting an error (0x80070052) though, would only copy about 400 of 600 pics despite plenty of room. after some googling, i learned to format the card in FAT32 first (NTS or whatever wouldn't work in this frame). this is a dropdown menu option under 'file' when you have the card open on your pc.
well, this worked: it copied all the pics and the sony frame supports that format. after that, wow, frame is wonderful. great display, easy enuf menu to navigate, nice remote.
in researching my challenge i learned that this is a common problem. hopefully this post will help someone spend less than the two hours it took me to get things up and running.
Still five stars even though it has a few quirks...
I bought a pair of these after reading and studying many many LCD frames (although it is the first one for me to purchase). Quality of the image was most important - I simply do not care for putting mp3's or video on this, our family just needs to 'unlock' all the 1000's of pictures that reside in my PC.
The 800x600 resolution and picture quality is outstanding, and as mentioned the menu system is very straightforward. I bought a second unit for my in-laws (they live in China and do not speak any English) so having a unit that runs on 120/220V was important, as well as having menus in different languages (this unit has a lot of languages). I was even able to download a Chinese-language manual and print it out for the in-laws (they do not have a computer) so they should be all set.
After several days of playing around with it, there are a number of 'quirks' that took some research to figure out. First is the resolution - all my digital pictures are from a Nikon D50, that saves jpgs in a 3008x2000 pixel format, which is known as a "3:2" ratio (width to height). Well 800x600 is a "4:3" ratio, so either a setting in one of the menus to make internal adjustments is one way to go, but it will automatically crop all your pictures, or you will have black bars on the top and bottom of the screen (not a major problem but irritating nonetheless).
I found a simple program called 'Frame Size' that will batch process a pile of pictures, one crop at a time, as well as reduce a 3MB 3008x2000 file into a ~300kb 800x600 one. This way I was able to do a 'custom crop' and downsize each file to the exact 800x600 format for this digital frame, and then have each picture custom-cropped so no heads/faces were lost in the process.
Another quirk was how it views the 'date photo taken'. It uses the 'modified' date and not the actual EXIF date from the jpg! It drove me crazy not to have the pile of pictures not show up in order. I used a non-freeware 'Picture Information Extractor' to re-write the 'date modified' data from the EXIF 'date photo taken' and that solved it promptly, it worked in batch format. There are some freeware (one from Microsoft called Microsoft Pro Photo Tools 2 sounded promising) but it did not offer batch processing of the EXIF data editing.
The multiple options for viewing pictures and the varying time delays for the slideshow is great, and after figuring out the above-mentioned 'quirks' it now works the way I wanted it to. (It should have worked this way from the beginning.) I'm very pleased with the product though, so I believe it deserves a five-star rating.
