Friday, 3 June 2011

Kodak Easyshare P850 8-Inch Digital Picture Frame


8 in. (20.3 cm) high-quality digital photo display

Easy-to-use remote, smart search menus

2 GB of internal memory

Energy Star qualified with energy-saving activity sensor

Add new images in just three steps

Product Details

Product Dimensions:

10.6 x 3.4 x 8 inches ; 2.1 pounds

Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

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

ASIN: B003VTZE6C

Item model number: 8261760

Average Customer Review:



This review is from: Kodak Easyshare P850 8-Inch Digital Picture FrameI now have 4 photo frames, each is from a different manufacture and there are differences between them!This review is divided into the following sections. QUICK SUMMARY PROS CONS AND ANNOYANCES WORKAROUNDS MISC STUFF not in the documentationI bought the Kodak frame partly because of the larger amount of memory it has and, after all, it is from Kodak. I have gotten good stuff from them in the past so I had high hopes for this frame. QUICK SUMMARY: The photos look good. They have tried to make it very easy to load photos onto the frame (but I'm not sure they succeeded) Would I buy this model again? NO, there are other frames that I found easier to use. I am not especially happy with this frame. This is mainly due to 2 items: 1) The frame will not display photos from my camera (a Panasonic Lumix FX01) unless I first strip all the metadata from them (more details on this below) and 2) The menu system and remote they provide are not very good in my opinion. If you just want to dump your photos onto the frame and then let it rip, this frame is for you. Your photos will look good. If you want more options, easier remote and menu system then keep looking. I have had less hassle with the other frames that I have purchased. PROS:The photos look good on the display. The firmware even does something to help lighten photos that are dark. It has a remote. I like this better than fishing for buttons on the backside. That said, the back side buttons are not that hard to use, mainly because almost everything can be done with the one big button that functions like 4 arrows and an enter. A 2nd button acts as a backup button.It allows you to group your photos into folders and subfolders. For example, this lets you put all your birthday photos in one group.It can do a slideshow of photos from only one folder or all the photos on the frame. The order of display has several options. The frame has a mode to display several photos at once as a collage. It is actually kind of neat. I usually do not like such things but this works. The photos that are displayed together are all from the same folder.They have done a good job of providing a way of locating a specific photo that is on the frame. In the picture menu, you can search through the thumbnails of all the photos or by folder, or date, or keyword and a couple other options.The Kodak "EasyShare software" can be used to edit and download photos to the frame from your PC. (See below for more comments) It will automatically resize the photos to take up less space on the frame. This is not fancy software like Photoshop but it does have some basic editing and touchup functions. If you just copy a photo to the frame using windows explorer there is no resizing.The frame automatically resizes photos it copies from a removable media such as a USB drive. CONS AND ANNOYANCES:The frame would NOT display any of the photos taken with my camera, a Panasonic Lumix FX01. The frame crashed. It turns out it was something in the metadata that the frame did not like. I do not know what exactly it objected to. To get the photos to display I had to first run them through a program that removes metadata. This works, but is a pain to have to do. The frame would display photos until it tried to display one it did not like at which point it crashed. When it crashed, the frame would display horizontal lines for several seconds, then a white screen, then the Kodak logo (like when it 1st turns on), then it would start displaying photos again and when it hit one it did not like the process repeated. The more photos you have loaded the longer the time it takes to cycle through. (See below on how I resolved this problem.)The clock looses its setting if the power flickers, even for a second. You will have to reset it if you want the frame to go on at a preset time. (Some frames will not loose the time even if power is off for quite a while) The manual claims that it can go for up to 2 hours before loosing the time but that is not the case for the frame I have.The remote is small, almost too small to hold comfortably. It uses only 2 small buttons and a big one that acts like 4 arrow keys to do all the scrolling through the menus. Guess it is cheaper to make but you will do a lot more clicking. Also, about a quarter of the time I click, nothing happens, so you have to click a second time. Don't go too fast. You can't click through the menu very fast, most require waiting several seconds before the next selection.You cannot turn it off or put it to sleep using the remote. For that, you will need to press the power button on the back. A pain if you have mounted it on the wall.The menu system is somewhat crude. It takes many clicks to do some things. For example, to change the order in which photos are shown in a slideshow can take up to 17 clicks. The type of transition (fade in/out or scroll right/left, etc) between photos depends on the time setting for the slideshow. You cannot set the time interval and transition effect separately. The combination is preset for you.When a USB or other memory device is attached to the frame, you cannot access the photos on the frame's internal memory, only the photos on the external device. The internal memory does not show up on the menu so you cannot view or delete the ...




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