Can anyone help me re digital photo frames please? What do you need to make them work?

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We are thinking about getting digital photo frames as presents for both sets of parents this Christmas. However I am a bit unsure about what we need. Do we need to get a memory card and a memory card reader? Or can we use the memory card from the camera in the frame? But how do you remember to take the card out again when you want to take photos? Will it all be compatible? Or am I totally on the wrong lines?

Thanks for any info on this subject.

Depends on whoch one you buy.

We recenty bought my parents one and looked out for one that would (a) run of mains, not batteries or had to be linked to a computer, and (b) one that had a USB port so that wthey could put photos onto a memory stick for it to read.

I don't have any way of uploading photos onto a memory card, other than directly off the camera (meaning can't have older photos on there).

Most will read a range of memoy cards. The one my parents now have reads several types, inc all the mst common forms.

My parents have got two separate memory cards - one that they fill up with the pix they want to show on the frame and one in the camera. You can also load stuff onto the hard drive of the frame but you're much more limited as to numbers of pictures.

Hmmm, just discovered that my memory card reader is infact a memory card writer also - so thee must be a way of getting photos on there. I will investigate further tomorrow!

I remember you mentioning some of this on a previous thread about children's presents, hula. DH seems to think you might be able to load older photos of the pc onto the camera and then onto the photo frame that way. And he happens to have two memory cards lying around.

Can I be cheeky and ask where you got your frame from?

Oh it seems to be a parent thing then this digital photo frame idea! scarybee how do they load the photos onto the memory card for the photo frame?

Amazon. It was £70. Think it was Kodak??? Will check late ron for you to be sure.

My dad loads pix off the PC onto the card for the frame so there's a really nice mixture of old and new photos. We got it for them last xmas from John Lewis and it's a phillips. They absolutely love it and I'd go so far as to say it's the best xmas present we ever got them

Found it: Kodak Easyshare 7" Digital Picture Frame

£60 infact

scarybee - how do they get pictures from PC onto memory card? I need to figure that bit out.

Oh and my dad is 75 so if he can do it, anyone can

The memory card in your camera is like any other storage device - like a CD or a flash drive or something. So you can load any old information onto it. When you plug your camera into the USB drive, it will appear as another drive device in your 'my computer'. Then you can just drag photos (or any other file if you want but obviously your photo frame can only read picture files) from your hard disk onto the card.

Does that make sense?

Have done that earlier. And it did show up on the computer file that it was thee. However, if I put the memory card in a camera, they don't show up. I will try it in the Wii and see if it does there....thanks, give me a sec,...

Aha, excellent. Just checked via the Wii and they are on there. Yeah

This now means that we can choose a digital photo frame - a more reasonably priced, ie cheaper, one - for pILs to get DD for her bedroom. Yeah!

Thanks.

Right so I could get a memory card for the photo frame, stick it in the camera, plug the camera in, select any photos from our extensive collection and drag/drop them onto the camera/memory card and then take that memory card and put it into a digital photo frame? Is that right?

So then I don't need a card write because the camera will fulfill that function?