Sony DPFD72B 7 inch Digital Photo Frame With 1GB Internal Memory

Safari Dino

at 2:43 pm

Having made the mistake of buying two cheap digi-frames both of which packed up I was keen to buy a quality product. I am not disappointed with this! The feel of the frame is top notch but two key features make this well worth the money. Firstly it has a shuffle option on the slideshow. A simple and innocuous feature so often missing on the cheaper products but one I consider essential. Secondly, the on/off timer is a must to preserve the life of the frame. I was amazed at how precisely this feature can be set. It’s quite mind boggling.

Don’t make the same mistake I did by buying cheap. Spend a bit extra and get a quality frame like this one, you won’t regret it!
Rating: 5 / 5

C. Shepherd

at 5:36 pm

I have had a philips photo frame for a while now, when they first came out, and its still one of the best ones around I have seen in my travels, however after seeing this demostrated, the clock feature sold it for me, the 1gb internal memory and sharp screen, I think sony have hit the nail on the head with this model, as ever there are a few niggles/oberservation like anything.

Comes in nice sized box, instructions in top compartment, about 8 different booklets in various langauges, then theres the frame and heres the weird thing with the one I got, just a standard two pin plug, and british adapter plug just thrown in the box, that clips onto the two prongs, however this does make the plug and adapter a funny l shaped, but it all works. And a small remote.

I intially stuck an sd card in, it didnt give me an option to transfer onto the frame itself, I had to going into the settings using the remote, to copy into an album, there is settings in there to create a new folder, for different albums I pursume, but have not tested that.

The remote is a bit slow, but does the job.

View mode – various different settings, for a few choices of analogue clocks and digital

Index – To view your photos on the frame, you can delete and rotate them

Menu – contains backlight settings, color, sep modes, clock setting, auto on and shut off functions you can even state certain date, also you can switch on/off sony logo that lights up on the front of the frame, like this feature as your not stuck with sony brand name on the bottom, alter fades etc and time between photos as well.

Very impressed so far with the frame, as my main reason was for the clock, as it sits on one of tv cabinet shelves displaying the time one side and my photos on another.

Other feature – is the self rotate if you want it display potrait style, by just turning it, not the fastest at rotating when you turn it, but gets there in the end.

So my likes : Nice Screen, Love the clock, on board memory, with sd, xd, microdrive, compact flash, sony sticks, really good price.

Dislikes, strange adapter, remote could be more responsive, not much more really

Specs of the box

Image compatablie formats : jpeg, dcf 2.0 compat, exif 2.21 compat, JFIF

Tiff, bmp 1,4,8,16,32 bits windows format

RAW (thumbnail preview only) srf, sr2, arw

Transfer images from pc to frame via usb none in box, operating systems windows/vista sp1/xp sp3/2000 and Mac osx 10.4 or later

7inch screen 18cm, 800 x 480 pixels, 16.10 aspect ratio, upto 2000 images on the frame.

As ever with photo frames, you do need to go out and see them in the flesh, as everybodys eyes, standards are different, but so far no complaints here.

Rating: 5 / 5