Indulge your senses with pictures, videos and music. Just insert a memory card or USB flash drive into the Kodak EasyShare M820 Digital Picture Frame and enjoy viewing your pictures right away. Your frame comes with decorative mattes that allow you to personalize the look of the frame, and complement your home decor. Kodak EasyShare Software makes it easy to access all of your pictures and transfer them from your computer to your frame. Kodak's Quick Touch Border keeps fingerprints off of your viewing screen so your images stay beautiful. The touch panel features yellow lights that illuminate to tell you exactly where to touch. Create, edit and view slideshows at the touch of your fingertips. The convenient drag-and-drop feature is perfect for transferring pictures for slideshows. View your pictures on the 8" (20.3 cm) 16:9 wide screen featuring Kodak Color Science for vibrant color and crisp detail. Store up to 300 pictures directly on your frame's 128 MB of internal memory and use the two available SD card slots to view and enjoy even more of your pictures. Set the mood with your music, listen to your favorite MP3s with built-in speakers Selectable viewing hours featuring automatic on/off settings Easily browse and edit your albums Display your frame on a tabletop or on a wall, vertically or horizontally Add style to any decor with optional accessory faceplates Discreet cord design is barely visibleCustomer Review: Kodak M829 Digital Picture Frame
This digital picture frame is very easy to use even without the manual. Everything you need is on the touch screen. Very easy to use from your digital camera, flash drive or the computer. Also the videos that I tried from my digital camera played very well and where clear. I haven't as yet tried any music. The clock feature that turns the picture frame on and off is a very convient idea but be sure you use the 24 hour cycle, I didn't understand this at first and couldn't get mine timer working right. I did have a little trouble coping picture files to my SD card but I think, I need to put them on my computer first and see if that is what is need to get them on my SD card, not sure about this right now, but I will try it and see if that works. Overall I'm very please with the Kodak digital picture frame and would recommend it to anyone as a gift for the Holidays.
Customer Review: Does not work like it says
I purchased this product two days ago and I am taking it back. I purchased this paticular frame because it goes with my Easyshare camera, and I like the word EASY when it comes to some of this Hi Tech stuff. I have to say it was easy to get my photos on, no problem, but The Video feature didn't work. The videos played very slow and the audio was slow and muted, when I played it for the first time it frightened my daughter, she thougth there was a monster in the frame. I called Kodak, they said to send it back. I don't want to purchase another one and have the same problem again.
One day you spot an interesting small stone wall.Just past that you notice a pretty young girl playing in a field of flowers.Behind that you notice an old weathered barn with an old tractor sitting in front."Ah", you say to yourself, "the perfect photo". But is it really?No.It may be the perfect series of photos, but that's a different story.
This picture would fail as a great shot; A) because it is far too complex a composition, and B) the camera has no way to effectively focus your attention on four different subjects on four different planes at the same time.Let's break this down to the more realistic shots.
Photo #1 - - - You get down low enough that you see the stone wall in the foreground with the classic barn and tractor in the background.Using selective focus, the wall is sharp and the barn and tractor are a soft hazy pastel type background.
Photo #2 - - - You lean over the fence, zoom in on the young girl with the field of flowers as the background.Using selective focus, you make the girl in sharp focus and the flowers around her gradually get softer and softer.Your camera is at enough of an angle that your do NOT include the barn and tractor in this image.
Photo #3 - - - Getting the owners permission first, you climb over the fence.You compliment the little girl on the pretty flowers; then you shoot past her using the flowers as the foreground and the barn as the background.You may again want to get down low so that the flowers become more dominant.Using selective focus, you focus on the flowers about one third of the way into the field, making them sharp and still having the rest of the field and the barn in soft focus.
Photo #4 - - - Since you already have the owners permission, you walk around the field until you get close enough to the barn and tractor.This time you decide to get down really low (you are laying on your stomach).You fill 2/3rds of the frame with the tractor.Using selective focus, you make the tractor in sharp focus and the barn is now soft focus.
These are the basic shots I would shoot in this situation.Now admittedly there are other possible combinations.You could; (for example) put the tractor in the lower 1/3rd of the frame, then focus on the barn and deliberately make the tractor itself go soft focus. This way the tractor is framing the rest of the shot.To be honest there are dozens of possibilities, but each of those still boils down to one main subject and one supporting background (or foreground).
Yes, the camera can technically take a shot with everything in it.But the human mind is only going to focus on one story, or one set of foreground/background images at a time.Your job is not to capture the universe of possibilities all at one time and confuse your viewer.Your job is to point out the individual miracles within the universe so that your viewer can appreciate them more than they ever have before.
The most powerful images in history are those that are simple and direct.They tell a story.The viewer should immediately be drawn to your image and feel an emotional impact.This can not happen if he or she has to visually sort through all the clutter you left in the image.If you want to be award winning, if you want to get published, if you want to sell your work . . . keep it simple.
Award winning writer / photographer Tedric Garrison has 30 years experience in photography. As a Graphic Art Major, he has a unique perspective on the Elements of Design and how they relate to photography. His photo eBook; Finding Your Creative Edge in Photography, proves creativity CAN be taught. Tedric shares his wealth of knowledge with the world, at: Better Photo Tips.com
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