Home > Consumer Reviews > Opteka DF-TFT8 8-Inch Digital Picture Frame with 128MB Built-In Memory (Black)

There are much better frames out there. This frame is a very plain black plastic that looks cheap. The picture quality is so-so. It doesn't work with vista. I returned the opteka and bought the HP frame instead......much better. Better features, picture quality, frame (black wood) and works with vista.

We purchased 2 of these to give to my in-laws for Christmas. The day they arrived I tried inserting a USB flash drive that already had pictures on it and that worked just fine. The frame started right up, displayed a slide show, remote worked, pictures looked nice, everything was great.

Then we decided to load them up with pix on the internal drive and a 2GB Kingston SD card before giving them to my husband's parents. We had an awful time w/ it. We connected it to our Vista machine w/ a USB cord, but the drives seemed to appear and disappear. Or if we could get them to appear, it would hang in the middle of copying a file. Worked on this for several hours, making sure it wasn't the USB cord, our SD card, a lemon of a picture frame (since we had 2 to play with), or some other variable. (I am a former programmer so I am not a newbie when it comes to working w/ computers.) Then we decided to see if it was a Vista compatibility issue. I connected it to our old XP machine and voila! It worked perfectly! One hundred pictures were copied quickly to the SD card and internal memory w/ absolutely no problems.

I really like this picture frame. The resolution is great, menus are intuitive and easy to use, and I like the width:height ratio. The documentation is generally adequate, but they really could have mentioned this problem w/ Vista (I'm assuming it's not just my computer) and saved me a few hours. I'll just warn my in-laws (they don't have Vista), and I think they'll love the frames. If we decide to get a digital frame for ourselves, I will certainly put this one at the top of my list.

In my opinion, the picture quality is not so good, but I have not seen other frames to compare it to. It is not even close to my laptop's display quality. By far the easiest way to use this would be to get a SD card to dedicate to the frame, if you can load pictures onto it from your PC. You could pop your SD card out of your camera and leave it in the frame, but then you wouldn't have the card in your camera. But I was preparing this for someone else, and I couldn't give up my own SD card. I also had to get pictures off of my PC. Because my pictures totaled less than 128MB, I decided to transfer them to the frame's internal memory. Although I have had my share of digital cameras and printers, I did not possess the proper USB cable. My USB flash drive was not recognized by the frame. So that left using my SD card as a transfer medium. Fortunately my laptop has a built in card reader. If it didn't, I would have been out of options. (I probably would have decided to return the thing in that case.) I put ten or twelve pictures at a time onto the root of the SD card (not in the same folder with my camera's pictures.) Rotate them if necessary on the card, before transferring. Also be sure the file extension is .jpg. Move the card to the frame. Then use the remote to find the pictures on the SD card. You will see 12 thumbnail images. Find one that you want, push OK to open it, then push the Setup button, and then find the Copy command. Wait a few seconds for the picture to be saved. Push Exit twice to get back to the thumbnail few. Repeat for all the pictures you want off the SD card. Move the card back to the PC, delete those pictures, and transfer a new batch. When you're done, switch back to the frame's internal memory, make sure you got what you wanted, and delete any duplicates. Once I was set up and had a process, it took a couple of hours to transfer approximately 100 photos. In summary, I don't think I would buy this again. If you are giving it to someone less tech savvy than yourself, plan on also giving them your time. One more thing: I use Windows Vista. I think my procedure should work with any OS.

We gave this as a gift to our parents for their 50th and it is so easy use and it's very portable! Perfect for them! I would definitley recommend it!

The picture is great. I resized all of my pictures using a photoshop script so they wouldn't be too big. It is short on instructions and the interface is difficult to use, but nice looking, but after it's set up, it's a nice frame. This frame is 800x600 resolution and has decent transitions. It does not support SDHD cards (usually over 4GB). It seems to freak out for me when the image count exceeds 1600 images on an SD card, so more than 2GB of data probably wouldn't work anyways. It has good viewing angle from the sides and top, but if you're looking up at it at all, the picture goes dark. (we have it sitting on top of something about 4-5 feet high, and when we sit on the couch we can't see the image well.) I'd say you need to have a 30 degree or less viewing angle from the bottom. I don't know if this is a limitation of all digital frames.