Mustek PF-A700B 7-Inch Multimedia Digital Photo Viewer
by Mustek
List Price:
Our Price: $79.99
You Save: $19.01 (19%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $18.99 (click here)
Category: Digital Camera
See more product details
Customers in the UK,
Buy this product at amazon.co.uk
for British Pounds
Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: MustekFormat: CD
Platform: Not Machine Specific
Model: PF-A700B
Product features:
- 7-inch color TFT LCD digital photo viewer
- Multi-function device displays photos, plays music files, and features USB connectivity
- Compatible w/SD, MMC, Memory Stick, and CF memory cards
- Supports Up to 12 MP image files (JPEG file format)
- Easy operation
- AmazonBasics Universal Camera Case for Digital Cameras HF (Black)
- Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 [OLD VERSION]
- Corel Photo & Video Pro X3 Bundle [Old Version]
- AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Braided Cable (6.5 Feet/2.0 Meters)
- AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Cable (6.5 Feet/2.0 Meters)[Supports 3D + Audio Return Channel][OLD MODEL]
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Mustek PF-A700B 7-Inch Multimedia Digital Photo Viewer
Customer Review: Great display quality, flawed display mode
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been using this frame to display 2000+ of my digital images on the desk of my office. Here are my comments:
Pluses:
1. Excellent brightness, contrast, color saturation, and viewing angle. The Mustek frame uses a LCD TV type panel that has much better brightness, contrast, and color, compared to the computer monitor type LCD panels. The trade off is lower resolution. The Mustek frame has resolution of only about 480x240 vs. at least 640x48 for most computer monitor type panels. But my experience of actually seeing images on this frame for a while is that Mustek made the right trade-off to use the TV type panels. I have compared the Mustek frame with another frame that apparently uses computer display type of LCD panel. The other frame had much better image details when viewed at book reading distance. But at a viewing distance of 3 feet, the images on the Mustek frame were much better. The images on the other frame were dark. The color was not nearly as vivid. The viewing angle was also much limited compared to the Mustek frame.
2. Excellent transition between the images. The transition is fast and smooth compared to the other frame.
Negatives:
1. Strange display mode. The Mustek frame has a native display format of 16:8 but displays only 4:3 images. You have two choices to display the 4:3 images. One is to use only the center part of the LCD panel to display the 4:3 images and leave the two sides of the wide screen blank, much the same as viewing a normal TV images on a wide screen TV set. The other choice is to have the images stretched out horizontally to fill the width of the screen, distorting the images significantly. Making subjects in the pictures short and fat. A much better choice would be to crop the top and the bottom of the 4:3 images to make an undistorted 16:9 images. It is strange that the Mustek frame does not offer this choice. So you have either a full screen display of distorted images or partial screen display. Neither looked good. To solve this problem, one has to pre-distort the 4:3 images to 1:1 images by stretching the pictures height wise and then cropped the top and the bottom of the stretched images to make them 4:3. The Musteck frame can display these pre-stretched images as undistorted 16:9 images. This is a fair amount of trouble to take each time you want to display any new images. There are some free software tools that do an excellent job of batch processing images to stretch and crop them for Mustek frame display. The two I found to be the best are the FastStone Batch Resizer for batch resizing and stretching the images, and the BIMPLite for batch cropping the stretched images. I used a three- step process. In the first step, all the images were resized to 1024x768 using the FastStone tool preserving the aspect ratio. This makes all the images, regardless of the original size and aspect ratio, 4:3 images. In the second step, the images from the first step were batch resized to 640x640 forcing aspect ratio, this is done using the BIMPLite since the FastStone tool could not do aspect ratio change. In the third step, the 640x640 pre-stretched images were cropped down to 640x480 using the FastStone tool. I found 640x480 images to have a slight better quality than 480x320 images on the Mustek frame. I don't know why.
Overall I am happy with the display quality of the Mustek frame. I wish Mustek would provide a firmware update, if can be done, to provide the display mode of cropping the 4:3 images to 16:9 instead of stretching.
Description of Mustek PF-A700B 7-Inch Multimedia Digital Photo Viewer
The Mustek PF-A700B 7-inch digital photo frame displays hundreds of JPEG photos stored on SD, MMC, Memory Stick and other popular memory card formats -- all with out a PC, a printer or Internet access. Not only do the frames allow digital photographers to proudly showcase their photos, but when photo mode is not in use, you have the ability to use the frame as a desktop/tabletop MP3 player and listen to your tunes no matter where you are. Operation could not be simpler. The great thing about the PFA700B digital picture frames is that we have eliminated selecting that one perfect picture for a office desk or living room. Now you can interchange an entire library of images, for a full multimedia experience.Digital Frames
Digital Cameras & Photo Categories
Bestsellers in Digital Frames
Impecca DFM-750 7" 3-in-1 Digital Photo Frame with 16:9 Aspect Ratio, Built in Speakers, WoodImpecca; Digital Camera
Best price: $69.95
Impecca DFM-720 7" 3-in-1 Digital Photo Frame with 16:9 Aspect Ratio, Built in Speakers, BlackImpecca; Digital Camera
Axion AXN-9105M 10-Inch LCD Digital Multimedia PlayerAxion; Release date: 2006-11-01; Digital Camera
Best price: $189.95
Price in other shops:
Portable USA 8-Inch Digital Picture Frame (PU8C)Portable USA Incorporated; Release date: 2006-11-14; Digital Camera
Price in other shops:
Kodak Designer Faceplate for Kodak DPF800 digital picture frame: Brushed MetalKodak; Digital Camera
i-mate Momento 100 10.2-Inch Wireless Digital Picture Framei-mate; Release date: 2007-03-28; Windows CE; Digital Camera
Best price: $140.00
CL) AA) 10.4" ACRYLIC DIGITAL FRAMESMARTPARTS, INC.; Digital Camera
DWELL 8 Inch Digital Photo Media PlayerDigital Well; Release date: 2006-01-31; Digital Camera
Price in other shops:
Visart AlbumTV Basic Series - digital photo frame ( YC1511BS-101-BLUE )Visart; Digital Camera
PACIFIC DIGITAL MemoryFrame PV1 Digital Camera Picture FramePacific Digital; Digital Camera