ViewSonic VFD920W-12 9-Inch Digital Photo Frame with 2 GB Internal Memory
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Digital Photo Product Details
Manufacturer: ViewSonicAudio: English (Original Language)
Model: VFD920W-12
Color: Ebony
Product features:
- Store up to 1,000 of your digital photos thanks to 2GB of internal memory
- Use the slideshow feature to customize your viewing
- High 800x480 resolution and bright LED backlight show your photos in brilliant
- It's easy to load photos using the USB port or your SD, MMC, or MS memory card
- View photos using the USB port or your SD, MMC, or MS memory card
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of ViewSonic VFD920W-12 9-Inch Digital Photo Frame with 2 GB Internal Memory
Customer Review: Really Disappointed With This Frame
Summary: 2 Stars
The visual quality of the photographs when viewed thru this frame are really beautiful, and I expected as much given that I have a View Sonic computer monitor. However, you can only EITHER display photos in portrait view OR landscape view if you want photos to run a slideshow and not have half of them laying on their side. You can stop the slideshow and rotate a photo, but it will not be saved in the rotated view and will go back to its original view.
I purchased this frame to give to my sister with her wedding photos as they wanted to run their photos in a slideshow. About 1/3 of my shots were shot in portrait view, 2/3 in landscape view. I have pulled out about half my hair experimenting with cropping and resizing my portrait view photos so that they can be read by the frame as a landscape dimension, but the frame cannot deal with that at all, and there's no way to predict how the frame will deal with a crop or resize until it is loaded into the frame. My computer monitor can certainly deal with displaying a photo in any view, why can't this? In fact, the frame will manually rotate a photo by making an intelligent crop, but you can't save it like that. If you recrop the photo in the very same way the frame did and load it back into the frame, it treats the photo like a close up [even if you size to accommodate the lost pixels]!! It's sheer crazy making. I am now needing to decide if some of my favorite shots stay out of the frame or if I return it and try something else.
If somebody has any suggestions, I'd be appreciative
UPDATE: July 20, 2010
Regarding the problem with vertical/portrait view shots, I found that if I cropped some and rotated them 90 degrees clockwise, that the frame would load them properly but only with the 3:4 view. So this squeezed the horizontal/landscape view shots a bit, but an acceptable compromise.
However, the slideshow craziness is not acceptable. You can set a "shuffle" option to avoid the frame running from the very beginning of the photo set each time, but after sitting with 150 pictures for over 20 minutes, the frame would run some of the same shots multiple times and never get to others. If I then go thru the menu to see the photos one at a time by choosing a shot from the thumbnails and then clicking to forward thru them, sometimes the frame will just start a slideshow again, taking me far afieild from the photo I was next planning to look at....really nuts and completely annoying.
A commenter in the digital frame forum here on Amazon stated something very true, that all frames seem to have two fundatmental flaws; dealing with shots on the verticle, and lousy slideshow performance. This frame has big problems on both those points. It also tends to caste a bit too much of a warm temperature [yellow] on shots that have a certain amount of gold light in them.
Description of ViewSonic VFD920W-12 9-Inch Digital Photo Frame with 2 GB Internal Memory
ViewSonic¿s 9" VFD920w-12 digital photo frame displays up to 1,000 of your digital photos thanks to 2GB of internal memory. The beautiful ebony frame complements any home or office décor. Use the slideshow feature to customize your viewing. The high 800x480 resolution and bright LED backlight shows your photos in brilliant detail. It¿s easy to load photos using the USB port or y our SD, MMC, or MS memory card. The clock and calendar functions keep you on schedule while still showing your favorite photos. Choose the VFD920w-12 for an all-occasion gift or treat yourself to this beautiful digital frame.Digital Frames
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