So many of the photos we take on our digital cameras end up hidden away on a hard drive, never to be seen again by the human eye. The digital photo frame creates a truly eye catching display that cycles through your favourite photos. Place on a desk at work to remind you why you’re still there at 6:30, or position along side your ornaments in a display cabinet – you’ll catch your father staring at it during a family re-run of Eastenders.

What a fantastic way to share your treasured memories with your family and friends, whilst displaying your fondness for modern technology and gadgetry.

The Samsung SPF-72H Digital Photo Frame has a 7 inch, high definition TFT LCD screen, with 800 x 480 resolution and 200cd/m² brightness. Even with modern digital printing, the quality of the images far supersedes the average dusty photograph. The screen makes the images come alive, and stand out, even in the dark, and the size ensures that the item isn’t overbearing. Also, of course, you can change the images being displayed as often as you please, so you never get tired of looking at the same old pictures.

The Digital Photo Frame accepts SD / MMC, MS and XD memory cards straight from your digital camera, which slot into a small opening in the base. You can also upload from your camera, PC, or phone using an USB cable. The frame also has its own memory allowing you to upload pictures and save them in files within the frame, so you can easily switch between display sets. All JPEG format images and images under 8000 x 8000 resolutions are accepted.

The in-built menu gives you lots of options to customise your display. Once you get the hang of using the correct buttons – ‘MENU’ opens and closes the menu, the arrow buttons allow you to adjust things within the menu, ‘ENTER’ activates a highlighted menu item, ‘BACK’ takes you back to where you were before you pressed the last button, this may sound straight forward, but believe me, its easy to hit the wrong button, or to hit all of them and wonder why nothing is happening, you can choose how your images will appear and add effects. Have the photo’s fade into existence, come in from the side, ‘wink out’ or shutter before the next picture appears, come in as bricks that build into a picture, expand from a tiny dot, and appear as bars sliding across your screen. You can also set the speed in which the images exchange, whether the whole display repeats more than once, and you can set it to randomly select which picture will appear when. I’d say that’s plenty of gadgetry to fiddle with and keep you occupied for long enough to satisfy that urge to play.

In short, the Samsung SPF-72H Digital Photo Frame is a fantastic gift and a great accessory for your desk. Operation is fairly straightforward, whilst being complicated enough to engage you for a few minutes. The bother of transferring your images from your hard drive or camera to the frame, which is really quite easy, is well worth the few moments it takes. You’ll soon be seeing your life flash by in front of your eyes.

Published - 21/03/2008

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