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ZDNet.com Features Digital Foci's Photo Book
Digital Photo Album
Top digital camera accessories for
Father's Day
By Janice Chen | June 16, 2010,
9:36pm PDT
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Brag Book Dad
Sometimes also known as Grandpa, he’s the one that can’t stop showing off
snapshots of the little ones. Whether he wants to pass photos around at the
office or around the poker table, the
Digital Foci Photo Book is an easy way to share digital snapshots.
Forget about jockeying for position around a monitor, or passing about a
clunky laptop or digital photo frame. The Photo Book is essentially a
digital version of a paper photo album. In fact, with its classic leather
case, it looks much like a photo album, but when you flip it open, there’s
an 8-inch LCD that plays both photos and videos from the 4GB of internal
memory, or directly from a memory card or USB storage device. The $189
device includes two card reader slots that support CompactFlash, SD, SDHC,
MMC, xD-Picture Card, Memory Stick, and MemoryStick Pro memory cards, as
well as a USB interface for photo, video, or music transfer. The built-in
speaker is surprisingly loud (though there’s not much bass as you’d expect
from a little speaker) and lets you play music in the background while
displaying slideshows. Unlike most digital photo frames, the Photo Book
supports
raw images from a huge range of dSLRs as well as JPEG, BMP, GIF, and TIF
image formats. The 800×600 pixel LCD’s viewing angle is a little limited,
but since it’s really a personal viewing device (rather than a photo frame
meant for display) it’s not much of an issue.
The contents of all photos, graphics, and text are protected by copyright
and may not be used or reproduced without prior express written authorization from the
publisher.
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