We all seen the advances made in digital photography over the past five or so years. One of the nicest accessories to come out more recently is the digital photo frame which can rotate through pictures on a camera’s memory card. Now Sony has taken that a step farther by introducing a digital photo frame that contains a printer.
According to Sony, the new S-Frame Sony Digital Photo Frame
(DPP-F700) will be out in January 2010. The new product will feature a 7” (diagonal) LCD screen for viewing your photos. It can print 300 x 300 dpi 4” x 6” photos in about 45 seconds. Listed below are some of the frame’s other features.
There are a variety of editing options for photos: enlarge, reduce, crop, date stamp on/off, border/borderless (for single prints), and brightness, contrast, hue, and sharpness adjustment.
The device has 1GB of internal storage and a file size adjustment feature that downsizes photos for a maxiumum capacity of 2,000 images.
Pictures can be transferred via USB from your PC or a variety of memory cards (Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick PRO Duo, Secure Digital (SD), SDHC, Multi-Media Card (MMC), Compact Flash, and xD-Picture Card) can be inserted into the frame.
The Auto Orientation will automatically detect the correct orientation for displaying photos.
There are Various view and print modes can be controlled using the remote included with the frame.
There are also a Variety of playback options for viewing photos including slideshows, viewing a single picture, or thumbnail images.
The Frame supports multiple image formats: JPEG, TIFF, and BMP.
The frame will cost about $200 and included with the frame out of the box are a paper tray, cleaning kit, power supply, drivers, and stand. Consumers will have to purchase their own photo kits, either the SVM-F40P (40 sheets of paper and a cartridge) or the SVM-F120P (120 sheets of paper and a cartridge).
For more information, the full press release is available here and more production information is available from the Sony Electronics Community blog.
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(DPP-F700) will be out in January 2010. The new product will feature a 7” (diagonal) LCD screen for viewing your photos. It can print 300 x 300 dpi 4” x 6” photos in about 45 seconds. Listed below are some of the frame’s other features.