The Digital Photography Show #49: What to Look For in a Digital Picture Frame (19MB, 54 mins)

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May 03, 2007: Welcome to the framey forty ninth episode of The Digital Photography Show!

Why framey? Because we talk about digital picture frames – a perfect gift for the next big holiday here in the states – Mother’s Day. (Although, in our very progressive household, we call it “Special Women in Our Lives Day.”)

Our guest is Stefan Guelpen, President of Smartparts Products. Among other things, Smartparts makes digital picture frames which are sold in most major retail outlets here in the US.

Stefan tells us what to look for in a digital picture frame and describes the options offered by Smartparts, including a cool portable, battery-powered frane that also plays digital movies.

You can enter the drawing for Smartparts 8” frame by completing this phrase: “Smartpart…For I___________ People.” You can find out the missing word here.

Michael and I also talk about Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, the new printer from Xerox that understands simple English, how you figure out if a vendor on the web is legitimate, and how some women are making money with their cameras.

Links:

• Xerox’s new printer
• Resellerratings.com
• NY Times

We also update you on our ongoing Photo Contest #4. Here are the rules from Michael: Ruler of the Contests:

The Theme is the Natural World. That means: no buildings, no people, no artifacts made by people, and no animals (yes, insects are animals too!). By the way, we love people and animals even though they are indeed part of the natural word, however they are not part of the Natural World of DPS Photo Contest #4. So what is the Natural World? Just about everything else found in nature. The photograph should not just comply with the theme, but truly speak to the theme of the Natural World.

The Technique is to produce images with a very shallow depth of field. Your subject should be in sharp focus and everything in the foreground and background would be out of focus. The spirit of the shallow depth of field technique is that the image be captured in-camera, and not through post processing. We’ll be on the honor system for this.

Send your pictures to TheDigitalPhotographyShow@gmail.com.
Photos will be accepted through Friday, 25 May, 2007.
You can only enter three photographs. If more than three photographs are entered, the first three received shall be entered.
The image must be in jpg format, and no more than 800 pixels on its widest side.
Please include the original exif info within the image
Please rename the image file with the photographers first and last name (so we know it’s yours).
If you are inclined to title your image (titles are optional), please append the title after the photographer’s name of the image file name.
Example file name: MichaelStein_ElbowStuckInEar.jpg

FYI: Only one image per entrant can be eligible as a finalist.
The winner of our next photo contest takes home the super-sexy Wacom Graphire 6×8 Bluetooth Tablet. Check out this wireless goodness and know what it is to experience true photo-editing comfort.

Send your pictures to TheDigitalPhotographyShow@gmail.com.

Thanks to our advertiser DXO (www.dxo.com) for the 20% discount they are only offering to listeners of this show. Try the program for free, and when you’re ready to buy, use the code DPSSHOW.

And don’t forget the fifty buck discount on Alien Skin’s Snap Art, and the 50% discount on Exposure. Just call and tell them you heard about it on The Digital Photography Show.

Thanks to everyone for listening and joining us here on the blog. Keep the emails and posts coming.

Scott

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