Will The Digital Photo Frame Kill Off Photo Albums?
Posted: August 12th, 2009 | Author: writingteam11 | Filed under: Wizardry | Tags: digital photo frame, digital photography, digital picture frame, photo frames | 24 Comments »It’s not impossible that photo albums may soon be a thing of the past in the future thanks to digital photo frames. Personally, I think it’s unlikely that traditional photo frames will disappear anytime soon – they will always have a place – but, given the functionality of digital frames I could well imagine bulky photo albums being phased out relatively quickly.
Digital photo frames are now a mainstream consumer product. They are no longer considered to be a high technology gadget and, given the huge number of sales in 2008 (which show no sign of slowing in 2009 by the way), this type of frame is now present in many homes.
The technology is fascinating for many of course, but the thing that will probably appeal to the majority of people, be they technophiles or technophobes, is the additonal functionality offerd by digital frames. Some things are expected – nobody is going to go for a frame that doesn’t have a good display with good image quality and clear colours which are a genuine representation of the subject of the picture. The desired size of the frame will very much be a matter of taste and will vary from individual to individual. At this time, the most commonly selected frame size is 7″ or 8″. That’s quite a reasonable size to fit on a desk or sideboard and will suit many people just fine. Larger sizes are certainly possible if you want them and have the money.
The key points that may persuade users to opt for a digital photo frame rather than either a standard frame or a photo album are the facts that digital frames can store large numbers of photos and that no cost or resource is required to print physical copies of the photographs.
Digital photo frames can hold thousands of photos on a wide variety of memory storage devices – a lot of frames have their own onboard memory capacity, but those that don’t can readily use cheap memory cards as the storage medium. Photographs stored in this manner can be automatically cycled through to create a slide show with preset timings between the different images – or the picture on display can be set up in static mode and then changed manually.
This capability to store many more photographs than even the biggest traditional bound album is a big plus. No more rooting around in the attic or searching through old shoe boxes looking for that photo you’ve just remembered about.
Storing the images electronically is another big benefit. It means that there is no need to pay processing charges, or to cover the printing costs for your photo collection in order to either view it yourself or to have it on display for your family, friends and colleagues.
People will probably still have their “favourite” photographs and will most likely continue to print out hard copies of a select few of these in future. It doesn’t seem likely that traditional photo frames will be totally phased out. However, given the ease of electronic storage and the other advantages enjoyed by digital frames, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to suppose that the days of traditional albums may very well be numbered.
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