A digital photo frame makes great additions to digital cameras.  Digital cameras created a freedom in photography that didn’t exist with traditional film.  With the ever increasing storage capacity of memory devices, most of us with a digital camera can eagerly take an endless number of digital pictures and not worry about running out of film or how costly it will be to get them all developed.  Digital cameras make all of us snapshot crazy.

The negative to this of course is that most of us accumulate a tremendous amount of digital images.  Go on a European vacation and you could come home with a couple hundred digital pictures.  These usually get transferred onto a computer or laptop, where they stay forever and rarely get viewed.  Sure we may print a couple (photo printers are also now very affordable) and put them in some traditional picture frames around the house, but the hundreds or thousands of others are stored away into oblivion.

That’s why digital frames are forecasted to be on such a steep growth trajectory.  A digital photo frame allows you to load you digital pictures and display them in what looks like a traditional picture frame, but with an LCD display device instead.  You can either easily transfer the memory card from your camera to the frame, or transfer photos from the camera to a memory card in the digital frame, and start displaying pictures.  Some digital photo frames have internal memory as well (no memory card needs to be added) and you can download from your computer – lots of flexibility.

The main difference between a digital photo frame and a traditional photo frame is their dynamic nature.  A digital photo frame can display many images in a slide show format.  They also come with plenty of display mode features to define how many pictures to display, transitions, multiple pictures on the screen, and can also display videos and play audio as well.  Digital frames are electronic devices that take picture frames to another level.

Digital photo frames are great for around the house or in an office, and also make great gifts, especially if you preload with pictures from your camera.   Your gift recipient will open the frame and immediately start seeing pictures they recognize.  In addition, as your digital photo collection grows, you can keep fresh pictures on your screen, or a friend or family member’s screen, so that you always display new pictures on the frame.  Many digital frames now have wireless features that makes sending new pictures from your laptop to digital frame even simpler.

So if you use a digital camera (and who doesn’t these day), pay attention because a digital photo frame will likely be an accessory that makes sense for you.  Its time to start displaying all those digital images you’ve taken, and a digital photo frame is a great way to do it.

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