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Digital Picture Frames
Late last year I started to sift my entire collection of digital
images in a search for a particular print project I had in mind. At the moment I have about 400 candidates which is far too many for printing. It has occurred to me that a digital picture frame may be a suitable answer. My last experience of digital frames was in the days when they were relatively new and I was not left with a good impression. They would not hold many images. Nor could they access much memory from a USB memory stick if one was plugged in. Above all, they were shortlived. Each one died after only a few months. My question is, are they any better now? If any one has any recent experience, good, bad or indifferent, I would like to know what it was. I'm looking for a 10"~12" screen with a good dynamic range and a colour gamut at least as large as sRGB. Is there such a thing? -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: I'm looking for a 10"~12" screen with a good dynamic range and a colour gamut at least as large as sRGB. Is there such a thing? older ipad. |
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iPad. Not your 10-12" screen, but still...
Eric Stevens: Late last year I started to sift my entire collection of digital images in a search for a particular print project I had in mind. At the moment I have about 400 candidates which is far too many for printing. It has occurred to me that a digital picture frame may be a suitable answer. My last experience of digital frames was in the days when they were relatively new and I was not left with a good impression. They would not hold many images. Nor could they access much memory from a USB memory stick if one was plugged in. Above all, they were shortlived. Each one died after only a few months. My question is, are they any better now? If any one has any recent experience, good, bad or indifferent, I would like to know what it was. I'm looking for a 10"~12" screen with a good dynamic range and a colour gamut at least as large as sRGB. Is there such a thing? -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |
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In article , Davoud
wrote: I'm looking for a 10"~12" screen with a good dynamic range and a colour gamut at least as large as sRGB. Is there such a thing? iPad. Not your 10-12" screen, but still... 9.7" is close enough to 10. |
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I've only seen one digital picture frame in use. Frankly
I just thought it looked ridiculous. The family who owned it kept it on a table in the living room and they'd turn it on whenever they were home. If no one is in the room looking at it there's no reason to shuffle images. If one is looking at it there's no reason to shuffle images. I'd rather choose which image to look at and for how long. As someone once said about phone sex: at first it seems like a clever idea, but then.... it really just doesn't work. |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:19:20 -0500, nospam
wrote: In article , Eric Stevens wrote: I'm looking for a 10"~12" screen with a good dynamic range and a colour gamut at least as large as sRGB. Is there such a thing? older ipad. Yes. That has occurred to me. How long will they last before they die of old age? (Apart from battery) -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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On 2015-01-21 04:02:07 +0000, "Mayayana" said:
I've only seen one digital picture frame in use. Frankly I just thought it looked ridiculous. The family who owned it kept it on a table in the living room and they'd turn it on whenever they were home. If no one is in the room looking at it there's no reason to shuffle images. If one is looking at it there's no reason to shuffle images. I'd rather choose which image to look at and for how long. As someone once said about phone sex: at first it seems like a clever idea, but then.... it really just doesn't work. A selection of well mounted prints in simple frames present much better than any digital frame. From the 400 candidates Eric has I would reduce that to a short list of ten to twelve, with specific rooms and walls for specific images. A side show of 400 images is overkill for any viewer, especially presented in a digital frame, on a TV, or even an iPad. This is a case of less is more. The iPad serves very well as a portfolio. Using Lightroom Mobile the image files take up very little space, and they can be presented manually or as a slide show. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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On 2015-01-21 04:40:09 +0000, Eric Stevens said:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:19:20 -0500, nospam wrote: In article , Eric Stevens wrote: I'm looking for a 10"~12" screen with a good dynamic range and a colour gamut at least as large as sRGB. Is there such a thing? older ipad. Yes. That has occurred to me. How long will they last before they die of old age? (Apart from battery) I am using an iPad 2 (64GB) running the latest version of iOS v 8.1.2 without issue. I am considering buying a new iPad Air 2 w/retina display, but I have no pressing need to. I fear I will have to get a new desktop Mac before I actually need a new iPad. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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In article , Eric Stevens
wrote: I'm looking for a 10"~12" screen with a good dynamic range and a colour gamut at least as large as sRGB. Is there such a thing? older ipad. Yes. That has occurred to me. How long will they last before they die of old age? (Apart from battery) a very long time. what's going to wear out? nothing. the only consumable is the battery which doesn't matter since as a picture frame, it will be plugged in all the time. at some point there won't be system updates but if all you're going to do is show photos, that won't matter either. it's an ideal use for an older ipad that has been replaced with a newer one. |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:43:23 -0800, Savageduck
wrote: On 2015-01-21 04:02:07 +0000, "Mayayana" said: I've only seen one digital picture frame in use. Frankly I just thought it looked ridiculous. The family who owned it kept it on a table in the living room and they'd turn it on whenever they were home. If no one is in the room looking at it there's no reason to shuffle images. If one is looking at it there's no reason to shuffle images. I'd rather choose which image to look at and for how long. As someone once said about phone sex: at first it seems like a clever idea, but then.... it really just doesn't work. A selection of well mounted prints in simple frames present much better than any digital frame. From the 400 candidates Eric has I would reduce that to a short list of ten to twelve, with specific rooms and walls for specific images. A side show of 400 images is overkill for any viewer, especially presented in a digital frame, on a TV, or even an iPad. This is a case of less is more. I originally thought of an album, perhaps two images per page, but when m*short_list* came out as large as it had I realised and album was not the answer. Why so many? Well one of the first goes back to 2002. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/.../LR--00068.jpg Hand held with available light, Sony 505, 5 MP. And they go on from there. The iPad serves very well as a portfolio. Using Lightroom Mobile the image files take up very little space, and they can be presented manually or as a slide show. I would like something a little larger than an iPad screen, if I can find such a thing. -- Regards, Eric Stevens |
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