Cameras and Photo

Welcome to the fourth annual “12 Gizmos of Christmas” countdown to the most wanted gadgets and gizmos of the 2007 Christmas Season. So far cell phones, laptops and computers have made the list and the Geeks are up the ninth most wished for list which are digital camcorders. First up in the digital camcorder list we have an entry for prosumers from Sony called the HDR-SR7. This is a high definition camcorder that has a 60GB hard drive supporting the AVCHD format and a 6.1MP camera.

As the world goes high definition, more and more consumers want their personal memories to be recorded in high definition as well and this Sony unit can fit the bill. This is great for consumers that don’t want to worry about tapes either as the camcorder has a built-in hard drive and by using the AVCHD format you can stores loads of high definition video on the unit. I have a slightly older version with a 40GB drive and that drive held quite a bit of video I took on a three week trip to China.

Some are worried that the AVCHD format is not supported but that was last Christmas! Since then, most major software makers are including support for the AVCHD format including Apple’s iLife.

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Suggested Price: $1098.99

The ultimate in portable digital photo frames… the Digital Photo Keychain. Sporting a 1.5″ LCD screen, the Digital Photo Keychain includes enough memory to hold up to 62 photos. As with most digital photo frames, you can add pictures via USB from your computer. The keychain automatically resizes photos to fill up the screen too.

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Suggested Price: $39.95

What’s the best way to show off 500 of your favorite photos in a portable way? The PictureBook Pocket Digital Photo Album!

By inserting your camera’s memory card or transferring photos from your computer’s USB port, you can view up to 500 photos in 320×234 pixels using this digital photo album. This is perfect for the gadget parent on the go to show off their favorite photos.

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Suggested Price: $200.00

You ever get caught without photos of the family or your new one when you run across an old friend? If you use a wallet, here’s a neat solution in a digital photo wallet. You upload the images via a USB cable and can view in the wallet on a 1.4″ screen that can store up to 55 digital photos.

The wallet comes in black and is made of Napa leather. There are both men and women’s version that both come in a bi-fold style wallet.

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Suggested Price: $59.95

Moving up to the big boys of Digital Photo Frames, this 10.4″ Photo Viewer includes two interchangeable 8×10″ frames but if you are a geek… you’ll love the technology behind this frame. The frame offers web connectivity to RSS feeds, email or photo-sharing sites via Windows XP or Vista. The frame offers 128MB of storage supplemented with external memory from CF, SD or MMC memory cards.

The frame also supports playing MP3, WMA, streaming audio, MPEG and WMV video.

The Digital Photo Frame was made with the geek photographer in mind. Imagine sharing your favorite pics with the world through your blog and having them display on your photo frame. Another neat idea, imagine promoting sales at your different store’s registers with the frame and pushing the sales through an RSS feed. My favorite idea? Set the grandparents up with one of these photo frames with a photo RSS feed of the little one.

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Suggested Price: $349.95

Similar to yesterday’s Gizmo of the Day, we’re featuring another Digital Photo Frame. This photo frame has built-in Bluetooth so you can wirelessly send a photo from up to 33 feet away from any Bluetooth enabled cell phone.

With a 3.5″ TFT screen and 32MB of storage, depending on the size of your digital pics you can store up to 100 photos on the frame. Another wicked feature offered by this photo frame is automatic image resizing and rotation so you simply send and watch.

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Suggested Price: $129.95

Form and function are combined well in this digital photo frame. The black frame should go with just about any decor and the 3.5″ TFT LCD Screen can be used as an analog or digital clock and can display digital photos. The clock even has an alarm clock built-in as well as a calendar and you can use digital photos as the background.

This Digital Clock and Photo Viewer is perfect for the new dad or mom… for that matter, this frame is perfect for any photo enthusiast that loves to display their photos.

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Suggested Price: $99.95

While looking around for gifts this weekend, I started checking out Digital Photo Frames. I’ve always wanted one, but the prices seem to extreme for such small screens. Over the past couple of years, it looks like prices really have come down and technology behind the frame has greatly improved.

Since I was already looking around, I put a few of my favorite digital photo frames up for this week’s Gizmos of the Day. You’ll see everything from portable and tiny to a 10.4″ screen that can connect up to RSS feeds. Enjoy the parade of Digital Photo Frames starting tomorrow.

Obviously printed photos are so last-decade. Digital photo frames allow us to go directly from shooting to displaying our photos with no messy meatspace-based printed version needed. The eStarling 2.0 Wi-Fi Photo Frame takes this concept to the next level by connecting to your local Wi-Fi network and allowing you to send photos to it via e-mail or RSS photo feed.

With full web-based access you can control exactly the photos you want on your eStarling frame at any time from anywhere in the word. E-mail photos as .jpg attachments and they appear on your frame. Choose a Flickr photo feed with the keyword “cool japanese robots” and soon your frame will be scrolling through nifty shots of highly desirable bots you will never get your hands on. New Photobucket integration allows you to add photos into rotation on your eStarling frame directly from the Photobucket website. You can of course send photos while on the go from your mobile phone, while your pets watch your exciting antics remotely on the eStarling. Hand the eStarling Photo Frame over to a non-technical relative (Who has Wi-Fi in their house of course. What… they don’t? You’re a geek. Set it up!) and rule with an iron-fist over exactly what photos your Grannie views.

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Suggested Price: $149.99-$269.99

Buy Now! Are you the one cracking the technological whip in your family? We know the story… you got Grandma a digital photo frame for her birthday and want to load it with pictures… only to find out that she didn’t realize cameras now feature “that newfangled digital thing” and all the photos she likes are in slide format… or worse, 35mm negatives. Well now you can bring your relatives kicking and screaming into the digital age with this handy 35mm Slide & Negative Digital Converter. Take 35mm Slides or Negatives and scan them at up to 1,829 DPI for easy conversion to Jpeg or whatever digital image format strikes your fancy. This handy scanner connects with USB and comes with easy to use Windows software for editing, cropping and resizing photos. So please make Grandma do some work converting her old photos from 20 years of church bingo.

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Price: $99.99