Opteka DF-TFT8 8-Inch Digital Picture Frame with 128MB Built-In Memory (Black)
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Opteka DF-TFT8 8-Inch Digital Picture Frame with 128MB Built-In Memory (Black)
Customer Review: The Best Ever! I love this frame!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been wanting a digital frame since buying a nice camera and I must say that I have no regrets in purchasing this one. If you have the patience with downloading and discerning how to work it with little to no instruction, I think you will agree. I bought this model after comparing reviews on others. I wanted to be able to set a slideshow to music. Note to husbands and dads...if you want to really impress your wife, set a slideshow of the family to the "Remember When" and/or "There's Go's My Life" and give it to her as a gift. I did this for myself (I am a mom) with pictures of the kids growing up and even made myself cry when it was finished. Partly because just getting the project done was such a task in itself. The instructions that come with the frame are useless. You really will have to figure it out on your own, but with perserverance it can be done. If you have trouble with music files, just let me tell you.. I could only get it to read .mp3 files, so if your music file has a different file extension, find a way to re-save it and then transfer it to the frame's memory. I don't know what you call the cable that connects the frame to your computer, but you will have to have one these to download files to the frame's internal memory. It doesn't come with one, but luckily I had one that came with my digital camera. Also, if you want to change the frame from black to others that are pictured on the box, I have no idea where you get them. It does not come with the other frames pictured on the box, but the black one is nice enough without them. Strange how the instruction booklet details how to change the frames but doesn't mention one word about how to download pictures or music files to it. Go figure...oh well. I bought 2 more of these as gifts for my mother and mother-in-law for Christmas and loaded them up with pictures of the grandkids. I can't wait to give it to them. The product itself is excellent. The instruction booklet is terrible. I am only rating the product, and as I said before... if you have the patience it is well worth the time to figure out. Beautiful picture quality! One last note... it has a pretty nice built in memory (128MB), but if it is not enough for you, there is a port on the side and you can just slide in your flash card directly from your camera. I have not tried the video option, but I am sure it would be nice too.Customer Review: OK if you have a few hours, and if you have a card reader on your PC....
Summary: 3 Stars
In my opinion, the picture quality is not so good, but I have not seen other frames to compare it to. It is not even close to my laptop's display quality. By far the easiest way to use this would be to get a SD card to dedicate to the frame, if you can load pictures onto it from your PC. You could pop your SD card out of your camera and leave it in the frame, but then you wouldn't have the card in your camera. But I was preparing this for someone else, and I couldn't give up my own SD card. I also had to get pictures off of my PC. Because my pictures totaled less than 128MB, I decided to transfer them to the frame's internal memory. Although I have had my share of digital cameras and printers, I did not possess the proper USB cable. My USB flash drive was not recognized by the frame. So that left using my SD card as a transfer medium. Fortunately my laptop has a built in card reader. If it didn't, I would have been out of options. (I probably would have decided to return the thing in that case.) I put ten or twelve pictures at a time onto the root of the SD card (not in the same folder with my camera's pictures.) Rotate them if necessary on the card, before transferring. Also be sure the file extension is .jpg. Move the card to the frame. Then use the remote to find the pictures on the SD card. You will see 12 thumbnail images. Find one that you want, push OK to open it, then push the Setup button, and then find the Copy command. Wait a few seconds for the picture to be saved. Push Exit twice to get back to the thumbnail few. Repeat for all the pictures you want off the SD card. Move the card back to the PC, delete those pictures, and transfer a new batch. When you're done, switch back to the frame's internal memory, make sure you got what you wanted, and delete any duplicates. Once I was set up and had a process, it took a couple of hours to transfer approximately 100 photos. In summary, I don't think I would buy this again. If you are giving it to someone less tech savvy than yourself, plan on also giving them your time. One more thing: I use Windows Vista. I think my procedure should work with any OS.
Customer Review: Nice picture frame -- does NOT work well w/ Windows Vista
Summary: 4 Stars
We purchased 2 of these to give to my in-laws for Christmas. The day they arrived I tried inserting a USB flash drive that already had pictures on it and that worked just fine. The frame started right up, displayed a slide show, remote worked, pictures looked nice, everything was great.
Then we decided to load them up with pix on the internal drive and a 2GB Kingston SD card before giving them to my husband's parents. We had an awful time w/ it. We connected it to our Vista machine w/ a USB cord, but the drives seemed to appear and disappear. Or if we could get them to appear, it would hang in the middle of copying a file. Worked on this for several hours, making sure it wasn't the USB cord, our SD card, a lemon of a picture frame (since we had 2 to play with), or some other variable. (I am a former programmer so I am not a newbie when it comes to working w/ computers.) Then we decided to see if it was a Vista compatibility issue. I connected it to our old XP machine and voila! It worked perfectly! One hundred pictures were copied quickly to the SD card and internal memory w/ absolutely no problems.
I really like this picture frame. The resolution is great, menus are intuitive and easy to use, and I like the width:height ratio. The documentation is generally adequate, but they really could have mentioned this problem w/ Vista (I'm assuming it's not just my computer) and saved me a few hours. I'll just warn my in-laws (they don't have Vista), and I think they'll love the frames. If we decide to get a digital frame for ourselves, I will certainly put this one at the top of my list.
Customer Review: Not a bad little photo displayer
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this as a gift for my mother who has no knowledge of computers or electronic gizmos and wishes to have family photos which today are mostly digital.
After a great deal of research checking out all reviews I could find, I decided to go with this unit rather than the others offered so far.
The unit itself is not bad at all. Picture quality to me was fine and the ability to watch camera movie clips with sound was a major plus.
The biggest problem I found was in the user manual. To me the manual is very for someone who has absolutely no knowledge of electronics with menus and settings. It took me quite awhile to figure out just how everything worked and I'm not exactly a novice working with electronics on a day to day basis. In order for my mother to appreciate this gift and not stick it in a drawer or closet, I had to create my own user manual so she could use it when received.
The other issue I have is the fact the box shows various frames you can switch out on this but finding them is another thing. So far I've only been able to locate the base unit in black.
Customer Service? I can't say as I haven't tried; but, go to their site and you cannot find much to help unless you write them.
If not worried about additional frames or not opposed to spending unnecessary time trying to figure things out with the controls and menus, the picture viewer in itself is not a bad little unit. I'm sure my mother will be pleased (hoping she can figure out and follow MY operating instructions).
Customer Review: Excellent photo display quality and ease of use!
Summary: 5 Stars
Within minutes of receiving this frame I was viewing photos off of my compact flash - without even reading the manual! After reading it (easy to understand with a little computer knowledge), I was quickly able to load a bunch of photos onto the internal memory directly from my PC by the provided USB cable. It's a simple drag and drop(or copy) system. It is just as easy to remove photos. Note: the order in which you put the pictures into the flash file is the order in which they will play on the frame (unless you choose random play). I wanted my pictures to play in a specific order, so I had to put them into the file in that order. From what I can see, you cannot organize the order of play once they're on the internal memory of the frame.
The photo display quality is excellent. I've been shopping these out in person and this is by far the best resolution I've seen. So many of them are 'pixelly,' but this one isn't at all. The colors are true and you can adjust the brightness. I found that picture sizes between 100kb and 200kb were perfectly fine for viewing without being sluggish in loading. I couldn't quite tell what the frame looked like from the picture, but I really like the sleek, black, flat screen style.
I have no idea about the quality of video or audio files - I did not explore this function.
I bought this frame as a gift for my parents and preloaded photos on it for them, but I have no doubt that they'll be able to manage it by themselves. Now I want one for myself!!