Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great picture quality - and £150 voucher!
Comment: I bought this digital frame for my girlfriend as a present and am very impressed with the quality and simplicity of it.
Setting it up was a breeze and the images look great on screen - the remote and built-in battery make life much easier as you dont have to keep getting up to chnage settings or to pause pictures.
I havent tried out the movie function yet but the MP3 playbeack is fine and setting that up is just as easy as setting up the picture slideshow.
AND!! I've just noticed that you get a £150 holiday voucher - read through the terms and conditions and its any ABTA or ATOL holiday for 2 people for 7 nights or more - sounds great. Just waiting for my voucher to turn up now!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: High Definition Picture Perfect Performer!
Comment: I bought a handful of these last year for christams presents and just purchased one (although from a well known retailer for about £15 more than Amazon)for myself. Still very impressive to look at definition/resolution wise, when pitched against the alternative "high street" brands at about the same money for 7".
Main key differentiator for me against many of the other models outhere is the actual definition of the screen and clarity of the picture. Also definitely worth considerring this model for the battery feature - it does only last about 1 and 3/4 hours once unplugged as the last review said, but a nice addition for accessability and armchair viewing all the same. All round feature rich digital frame and well worth the money if for the clarity and battery alone !
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Hmmm looks good but the battery was a let down
Comment: Ok so i will not go into all the detail other people have because what is the point as they already have!!! My comment will be short and simple, i did not buy this from amazon but i do own it.
The so called battery is useless, i lasts 2 hours if your lucky and this on a single photo, no videos playing or photo switching.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very useful for photographers too
Comment: I travel around a lot taking pictures on my DSLR on a semi-pro basis, and on a couple of occasions have returned home to find that all my images have sensor dust marks, which makes for many hours of retouching. So rather than follow the recommended route of taking along a laptop I decided to buy the Linx instead.
Where it really scores in my opinion is that it has a built-in rechargeable battery, which means that I can do a photo-shoot and have the Linx connected up to my camera (Nikon D80) which acts as a USB "memory stick". The mini-USB end goes into the camera and the fat end into the Linx. Admittedly it's not a huge screen but if you've ever had to battle with Nikon's tiny monitor screen you'll appreciate the difference.
I calculate (TBC) that I'd get around 45 minutes on a full charge which would allow me to examine quite a few pictures. This is really important if I'm changing lenses as that's when problems usually occur.
It can also be used in the studio as well as the 8" screen is big enough to show enough detail without being as delicate as a laptop: it's real bad luck if you knock your expensive laptop off the stand, but at the price of the Linx it's not going to break your heart, or the bank. It's also going to be handy taken on as aircraft hand luggage: it's not a laptop and you can demo the device to security if need be.
The colour rendition is actually very good, and right now I'm watching it scroll through a shoot with some particularly vivid colours, so full marks there. It takes around 1.5 seconds to load a 1024x768 image (300dpi), just under 1Mb and for a 3872x2592 image (300dpi) of 5Mb, about 4 seconds. If you think that's slow, it is, but balance that against the time taken to retouch 400 dust-spotted images!
The remote is actually very handy and I'm using this in preference to the back-panel buttons: I've found that if you point it at the perspex surround on the infra-red sensor it'll control the frame well. Range seems to be about 1 metre when "shooting" from the front.
One thing I personally like is the clear transition between pictures: I know some people love the "Ken Burns effect" - if you're trying to spot small irregularities between images, that panning and fading can be a nightmare. It's all personal choice though.
All in all a very nice piece of kit. The manual's certainly not the worst I've seen, but if you can work a video/DVD player you should be able to figure it out. I'll use it for a bit and then do another longer-term test review.
Customer Rating:
Summary: not a standard product
Comment: It worked perfectly fine for around 6 months but now have developed large pactches on the LCD screen so we can't put this in our living room as the patches are visible on each photo . so even thouugh the product is good .. it is certainly can be branded as cheap and non standard product.
|
