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Agfaphoto AF5075 7" Digital Photoframe
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Nice uncomplicated frame
(4 out of 5) by Stephen Bird on Dec 11, 2007I have just bought one of these as a Christmas present for the in-laws. I am sure they will forgive me when I say they aren't the most technically minded, so I was looking for something easy to operate and this frame is perfect.
The resolution is much the same as any 7" frame in this price bracket so no complaints there. It has a very handy remote control for all the operations, you can even turn the frame off with the remote and when you put it back on it will resume from the next photo.
The one thing I wish these frames did was a random (shuffle) slide show, no frames in this price bracket offer that feature though so I can't mark it down for that.
One area which I did mark it down though was this. The frame quotes a resolution of 480 x 234 pixels - I resized my pictures to 480 x 234 but when they were displayed they had black bands top and bottom. After much experimenting I found 480 x 270 worked perfect. This is actually at a ratio of 16:9 which was also mentioned on the box. A little more information in this area would have been appreciated.
To summarise - I am very pleased with the display quality and especially the user friendly interface.
The resolution is much the same as any 7" frame in this price bracket so no complaints there. It has a very handy remote control for all the operations, you can even turn the frame off with the remote and when you put it back on it will resume from the next photo.
The one thing I wish these frames did was a random (shuffle) slide show, no frames in this price bracket offer that feature though so I can't mark it down for that.
One area which I did mark it down though was this. The frame quotes a resolution of 480 x 234 pixels - I resized my pictures to 480 x 234 but when they were displayed they had black bands top and bottom. After much experimenting I found 480 x 270 worked perfect. This is actually at a ratio of 16:9 which was also mentioned on the box. A little more information in this area would have been appreciated.
To summarise - I am very pleased with the display quality and especially the user friendly interface.
452 of 460 people found the following review helpful:
Great value frame
(4 out of 5) by Andrew Clews on Nov 8, 2007 (Herts, UK)Well, here's my story...
I spent weeks researching which frame to get my mum for Christmas. They vary so much in price/quality/brand etc...
I wanted to get a Philips, as they seem to get hands-down the best reviews. I just couldn't justify the price. Having visited all the major highstreet stores (Debenhams, John Lewis, Currys, Klick, Boots, Tesco Extra, Argos etc.) in seek of some display models to play with, I eventually gave up today, as not one - and as you are now well aware, I did try hard - not one store had a functioning frame on display.
So I took the plunge... I went back to the well-known catalogue store (who boast a no-quibble 30-day money back promise!) and bought 2 to try out - the heavily-reviewed "Linx" 7" jobby, and this one, the Agfa.
The Agfa wins, no doubt about it. Understandably, no frame with 480x234 pixel display (which incidentally the majority of frames under £80 are speced at) is going to look fantastic close up, but th Agfa looks a hell of a lot better than the Linx.
And it's so easy to use, even my mum will find it a doddle! Just stick in a memory car or PictBridge-compatible camera, and it starts the slide show. The remote is dead simple too - choose length of time the picture stays on from 5s to 60s, various stretch/pan/zoom modes, back and forward through pics, and rotate. That's it.
No setup menus or similar present - but who needs them, this frame is plug and play, litterly. The only reason I've given it 4 rather than 5 is that the pictures don't look amazing close up, but this isn't really a problem,.
Also, should you wish to leave a picture up for more than 60 secs, no problem, the frame has a pause button too!
All-round good buy, far better than the Linx, and I dare say many others in the same league...
Hope this helps.
Andrew
I spent weeks researching which frame to get my mum for Christmas. They vary so much in price/quality/brand etc...
I wanted to get a Philips, as they seem to get hands-down the best reviews. I just couldn't justify the price. Having visited all the major highstreet stores (Debenhams, John Lewis, Currys, Klick, Boots, Tesco Extra, Argos etc.) in seek of some display models to play with, I eventually gave up today, as not one - and as you are now well aware, I did try hard - not one store had a functioning frame on display.
So I took the plunge... I went back to the well-known catalogue store (who boast a no-quibble 30-day money back promise!) and bought 2 to try out - the heavily-reviewed "Linx" 7" jobby, and this one, the Agfa.
The Agfa wins, no doubt about it. Understandably, no frame with 480x234 pixel display (which incidentally the majority of frames under £80 are speced at) is going to look fantastic close up, but th Agfa looks a hell of a lot better than the Linx.
And it's so easy to use, even my mum will find it a doddle! Just stick in a memory car or PictBridge-compatible camera, and it starts the slide show. The remote is dead simple too - choose length of time the picture stays on from 5s to 60s, various stretch/pan/zoom modes, back and forward through pics, and rotate. That's it.
No setup menus or similar present - but who needs them, this frame is plug and play, litterly. The only reason I've given it 4 rather than 5 is that the pictures don't look amazing close up, but this isn't really a problem,.
Also, should you wish to leave a picture up for more than 60 secs, no problem, the frame has a pause button too!
All-round good buy, far better than the Linx, and I dare say many others in the same league...
Hope this helps.
Andrew
26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent
(5 out of 5) by carrie anne on Feb 21, 2008 (wiltshire)I brought this for my dads 70th Birthday-I wanted something simple and easy to use-with this you can't go wrong -plug it all in , insert a memory card,switch it on and away it goes-remote control a little diffulct to open but once its done it works really well-would recommend this product
48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
Good Picture - uncomplicated and easy to use
(4 out of 5) by Mr. Christopher J. Parker on Jan 30, 2008Like another reviewer, i bought this as a gift for my mother after the original Kodak one i bought her for christmas lasted for 10 days before dying... but some teething problems as the fist agfa one i received didnt work at all, but the second one works like a dream - 10 x better picture than the kodak, its easy to use and well made.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
Digital frames really have improved at the lower end
(5 out of 5) by D. Surgin on Feb 20, 2008 (Belfast, Northern Ireland)I was buying this product for my cousin and was looking for something cheap, but i wanted the best of the cheap ones. When I got the product, i put the memory disc in hoping for the best, expecting mediocre. I was very pleasantly surprised. Even when the frame is in landscape but the photo is portrait, the photo is still big enough to see which pleased me. Overall I would recommend, i will definitely be buying one for my mum next.