Monday, 27 December 2010

Digital Foci Photo Book 8-Inch Portable Digital Photo Album (PBK-080)


8-inch 800x600 high-resolution digital LCD with LED backlighting - Comes with soft leather-like case that protects the Photo Book

4 GB internal flash memory - Supports CF, SD/HC, MMC, MS/PRO, xD, USB flash drive - Copy albums directly from cards or USB flash drives

Displays each photo album with folder name and thumbnail photo preview - Automatic photo slideshow with adjustable time interval

2.5 hours of battery life on rechargeable battery - Ideal for passing around while sitting on a living room sofa or at a business presentation

Supports RAW image viewing from DSLRs - Perfect for professional photographers to display photo collections in a elegant portfolio

Product Details

Product Dimensions:

10.5 x 1 x 7 inches ; 2 pounds

Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.

ASIN: B00200K0KI

Item model number: PBK-080

Average Customer Review:



This review is from: Digital Foci Photo Book 8-Inch Portable Digital Photo Album (PBK-080)What I needed: a digital photoalbum to replace paper photo albums and stop printing hundreds of photos a year.What I did not need: a traditional digital picture frame. I have one and no one notices if it is ON or OFF.The Digital Foci is probably the ONLY product on the market today that has all the "must have" features for photo album:1) Cordless (just take it and pass around as a regular photo album)2) Front control buttons (easy to flip pages etc)3) Folder structure to keep different photo albums in separate folders for easy access4) Large display (>regular 6x4 print), sharp 800x600 pixels and bright LED lit 4:3 display.5) No oversized frame around, you can hold it in hands and pass around as a regular photo album.6) SD (SDHC) flash memory support up to 32GB - just one SD to keep 10 years of photosI went through 100+ frame models and found just few that are cordless and have decent size comparable to 6x4 photos, but all except Foci Digital lacked in one "must" feature or another. For example 8" NIX did not support folders, i.e. all photos come in one pile, very hard to navigate to a specific event if you have 16,000 pics! Digital Foci in more details:1) Rechargable battery provides more than enough viewing time. The album can be charged while closed and standing on a shelf among other albums and books.2) Front buttons are very convenient, you do not need the manual to figure them out. Responsivity is reasonable, takes less than a second to flip to the next slide after you press forward. You can also rapidly flip "album pages" with 12 photos per page. You can zoom in and out any photo by just pressing (+) and (-) buttons and chose the zoomed area using 4 arrow buttons. I have 500 photos in one of the folders - flips as fast as smaller folders.3) It will show folders (about 10 per page?), but only one level. But even as it is it works fine. When you highlight a folder (using arrows) its name is shown. I also created one jpeg picture for every folder with name "__folder.jpg" (i.e. first alphabetically in the folder) that has date-event name written on the picture in large font - the first jpeg is used by album automatically as a folder icon.4) LCD display is good, large viewing angle in horizontal direction, but in vertical image becomes dimmed if you view it from below the normal to the screen (fine from the above). Makes sense. The screen is sharp and noticeably larger than 4x6 print.5) It is designed as a book, not as a frame, it is comfortable to hold and when you fold it its front "book" style hard cover protects the screen, you can pass it around or throw it into you lagguage without any special case.6) Supports SDHC/SD cards, fast finding files. Once you put SD in the card does not stick out, you can have one in at all times.Additional features that I find useful:*) Supports AVI movies, in particular DivX support is great - I convert all my camera taken mjpeg avi movie clips into DivX to save up to 5 times in space. It even plays internet downloaded full length AVI movies, good picture, one small mono speaker is loud enough for the purpose. A movie clip has to be selected separately when viewing an album in "page" view.*) Easy USB connect to main computer - can transfer data to inserted SD card or to internal memory (4GB). The transfer rate is, however, rather slow - about 500kB/s, so it is better to take SD card out and transfer stuff directly to it.*) Navigation is very simple and intuitive with front buttons. Their spacial arrangement is very convenient. *) Zoom - I keep original high res photos, sometimes you wish to zoom into details and that can be done. I must warn, however, that it takes about 2 seconds per every zoom click to see the response.Other features I don't care about:*) Can run slide show as a typical photoframe.*) 4GB on board memory.*) Can play mp3 music files while you watch the slide show (never tried, playing music through a small speaker does not make much sense to me).*) Can show ASCII text files (*.txt) - English only, I guess, I have some russian books - these show as gibberish even if I select Russian language in settings (code page mismatch?). The text viewer is too basic to be really useful, no support for DOC, fb2, rtf etc.*) Supports some other flash card standards.The software features that I would like to have:*) Deeper folder structure*) Possibility to select folder page style as just folder names (like in explorer)*) Ability to add text to photos. For example, it would be nice if I could just write a text file with "txt" extension and same name that could be shown on top of a photo (lower part) when I click a special "contents" button (currently it displays just the file name). *) Ability to show movie clips and pics in a mixed mode, i.e. concurrently as they are listed,*) Option to select show in "date" order, not alphabetically ...




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