Comments on: Review: Sony DPF-D70 7″ Digital Photo Frame

By: Alex Jander

Alex Jander — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:58:16 +0000

Hi everyone !
My name is Alex and I buy this digital photo frame for my mom and I think is broken.
The screen it’s all blue and in the top left page it say : Erase F/W? ”
non of the buttons or the remote works…
can you please advise? what to do?
Thanks in advance )

Have a great day !!!

By: Irfan

Irfan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:37:13 +0000

I have been trying to get my D70 to display clock / calendar at same time as an image – described in the review as “split screen”. This layout is also shown on the retail box but I can’t for the life of me find it in the menus and settings! Any help? Thanks.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:31:21 +0000

Just got this frame as a present and I’ve uploaded some pictures but I want to delete those because it is taking too much space . However I’m having problem deleting those. I have a Mac and the pictures on the digital frame aren’t showing in the computer and I can’t find a way to delete those pictures…. Any ideas??!!

By: Jason Kennerly

Jason Kennerly — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:22:16 +0000

I have a Mac with OSX 10.4, but instead of using iPhoto, I recompressed all the photos with something called “DropFix”. I set DropFix to make image files that were 480 pixels (the frame’s height) tall and proportional.

I put 601 photos on the picture frame (it claims to hold only 500) and its still only 25% full.

The reason that the frame filled up for you so quickly is that it keeps the quality of the photo you put on it (to a point) unless you tell it not to. The reason for this is that the frame also has an “EXPORT” function in case you want to print it out later.

By: Jason Kennerly

Jason Kennerly — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:51:55 +0000

Yeah, these things have version numbers, so an exchange might be in order. I have a version 1.12 at the moment.

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:04:07 +0000

I love the display and have had none of the locking up or orientation problems described above with files exported from iphoto on my Mac. HOWEVER this device claims to have 230 MB of memory, with only 83 MB used, but I cannot add another picture! I’d like to use that additional 150 MB of “available” memory…

By: David

David — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:27:18 +0000

I had the same problem as some of the other posts in that the auto orientation wasn’t working. I searched the internet, and it is “metadata” inside each picture file that has the orientation information. I had an old olympus c 460 zoom camera, and non of the pictures from it auto rotated. So i loaded some pictures that were taken from a Canon 350d slr onto my sd card, and the auto orientation kicked in right away. So if you are still having problems it might be the camera is too old to have this function in it. Hope this helps.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:46:04 +0000

Got this frame for my parents at xmas. Plugged my Mac into it and draged/drop photos into the frame but it just displayed the Data cannot be opened sign. All the photos are .jpeg. Any ideas?

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:26:30 +0000

I thought my pictures are suppose to rotate automatically…what’s wrong

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:10:19 +0000

I have the same problem. When I use my Photoshop edited (and of course saved as JPG), they seem to lock up the frame. I load them into any other program and do a save as, and they work fine. I think it has something to do with Photoshops extended Tags.

By: Marcin

Marcin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:29:10 +0000

It is not the photoshop causing your problems. These frames support only JPEG file format. Anything else (PSD, camera RAW etc.) will not work. When scanning pictures try saving as JPEG (.jpg). Also when editing in Photoshop “save as” and make sure you have selected .jpg (often default setting is to set as .psd as it is PS own format). Hope this helps.

By: Denise

Denise — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:24:25 +0000

Hi, I just loaded up many photos I had edited with Photoshop. Just save them as a JPEG file.

By: LC

LC — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:04:55 +0000

I had thousands of scanned family photos I wanted to put on the Sony DPF-D100 frame. It would not recognize a one of them. After much experimentation, I downloaded Photoshop CS4 (had CS2), and tried taking my original scan PSDs and did a SAVE for Devices or Web, and then they worked. The SONY help desk was of NO help–their comment on edited photos was “it may not work”. Very helpful indeed! Especially when it seems to be a simple as Photoshop version used. Other than than, it is a beautiful frame.

By: Shan

Shan — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:02:06 +0000

Thank you Andy. That was a helpful reply.

By: AndyB

AndyB — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:48:36 +0000

I have had problems with a couple of images I had edited in Photoshop that would not display. Not sure why (it was only four) and I re-edited them (made a mnor change) and re-saved and they then displayed OK.

So it’s fixable but seems fairly random as other PS edited images displayed OK first time

By: Shan

Shan — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:44:43 +0000

Hello,
Few user reviews in amazon mention that if the pictures (JPEGs) are edited by Photoshop, they no longer work in this frame. Is it true ? Can someone please confirm this ? I almost decided on this one before i read those 1-star reviews and stopped short of buying.

Thanks
Shan

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:14:56 +0000

Same problem for me. Portrait shots do not automatically rotate!

By: oluv

oluv — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:05:35 +0000

i bought this frame for my mother because it had the best image quality i could find.

the only drawbacks are, that it really lacks features. you cannot organize the photos in any way. the photos are either shown in a random order or are sorted after the date. there is no way to sort them after topics. even if you put them into separate folders, they are displayed one after the other.

what a pity, because the image quality is really superb.

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By: portrait

portrait — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:31:48 +0000

same problem – auto-rotate doesn’t work

By: randj

randj — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:59:19 +0000

The landscape images all show O.K. but any images that have been taken in portrait appear as landscape. Also, when the frame is rotated the landscape images turn with it O.K. but the portrait images still appear on their side, again needing manually rotating 90 degrees to view them correctly.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:21:46 +0000

The auto rotate works fine with the Canon SD-line shots that I’ve tested with. Do they all not work for you or is it just some photos? I can only assume that for some reason it’s not able to pick up the orientation data from the image file.

By: randj

randj — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:22:45 +0000

Have just purchased DPF-D70, great display, but won’t auto rotate the odd portrait image from my Canon Compactflash memory card. Have tried card in another D70, in another local store but still doesn’t rotate. Do only certain cameras/cards work?

By: jmc

jmc — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:51:08 +0000

Love this frame!! I’ve had it for about 2 months, and the picture quality is GREAT! Very easy to use (hardly even had to read the instructions provided). Love the convenience of the remote control, and the different features it has. It was a little pricier than what I wanted to spend, but the enjoyment I (and my friends) have received from it has been well worth the cost.

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:02:50 +0000

Just got it. SD card. Beautiful frame and easy to use. No sense in buying a no-name with a poor screen. Also have a Philips one w/an excellent screen. Great for my grandparents.

By: sam

sam — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:10:02 +0000

Update:

I started using a different memory card (CF instead of SD, different brand too) and the problem has gone away. I also changed the folder name of one of the folders to be shorter.

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By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:55:03 +0000

I’ve used our test unit for at least a month and haven’t seen it run into trouble once. We’ve also been working with their 9″ model over the same time and no problems. It’s probably worth taking back and exchanging.