Ever since I got my Digital Spectrum MF 8104 wireless digital picture frame, I’ve been borrowing pictures from friends and relatives to add to my FrameChannel account so they can be added to my slideshow. Recent pictures are all digital, of course, and those are a cinch to add to FrameChannel. I also want old and older pictures, though, and most of my family don’t even have a negative for those any more. Those pictures must be scanned.
There are all kinds of scanners: big ones, small ones, expensive ones, less expensive ones. . . . the best ones, of course, cost a lot. There are profesional scanners made especially for photographs, too.
Until such time as you can get your hands on a professional top-knotch scanner, however, you can make do with the scanner you probably already have. Mine is a a Canon Canoscan D646Uex. It was never really intended for pictures, but I’ve been scanning old photographs with it for months now, and it does a pretty good job!
I’ve had my scanner for several years; I think it cost well under a hundred dollars at the time.
Digital pictures look the best, naturally, but I’m serious when I tell you that the really, really old photographs that I scanned onto my computer with that old Canon Canoscan D646Uex scanner look really good on my wireless picture frame. A professional photographer or artist might be able to tell the difference, but I can’t.
When you buy a wireless/digital picture frame for older people, especially, they’re going to want to see their older pictures on it. That means a scanner, but don’t panic. I can tell you from experience that your old scanner will work just fine.
If you’re loaded with cash, you can take the old pictures in and have a professional scan them for you with a fancy, expensive, professional scanner, but if you’re like me, that’s completley out of your reach.
Just use the scanner you’ve already got. It does take a while, but the results are worth it.
These are my husband’s grandparents. This picture was taken back in the Roaring Twenties. Was it digital? Not hardly. But it is now.
With a little patience, and a LOT of time, you can scan all of your family’s old photographs and put them on your wireless picture frame. You an also email them to people and otherwise share them.
Scanning these old pictures also preserves them. Old pictures tend to fade, and it would be terrible indeed if your family’s cache of memories were lost.
Save them, and look at them anew, on your wireless digital picture frame.
Just last week, PhotoVu released their newest digital picture frame software, which includes a significant increase in the ability to display high resolution digital camera images, including the new 21.1 megapixel EOS-1Ds Mark III from Canon
Mark Van Buskirk, Partner, PhotoVu, says that “We continue to enhance our software and feature set to offer the world’s premium wireless digital picture frame product portfolio. Our latest digital photo frame software is a great example of how PhotoVu digital picture frames continue to meete the requirements of the most demanding high-end digital cameras on the market today and well into the future, ensuring our digital frame customers can view all of their digital photo collections for years to come.”
Some of the highlights of the new photo frame software include 160gb hard drive support for standalone play and automatic rotation of images for those cameras that support orientation sensor and EXIF tagging of images. Many of the many new features and enhancements are only found in PhotoVu digital pictures frames.
And speaking of PhotoVu digital picture frames. . . They’ve got a new one, folks, and it’s HUGE!
22 inches of wireless digital picture frame, right on your living room wall. It’s the PV2265x, and it has the highest resolution of any other digital photo frame - 1680 x 1050.
The 22-inch LCD screen will display your personal photos beautifully, and you’ll be able to see it from clear across the room because it’s so BIG.
Robert Jordan, Partner, PhotoVu, says that “This is clearly the world’s premium digital picture frame. Our first large wide format digital picture frame, the PV 1965w, has been very well received and we expect the PV2265x to be “the” digital picture frame gift for the 2007 holiday season. Whether for digital signage use in a business, displaying art and photos in a gallery, or enjoying your digital photo collection within your home, this big digital picture frame with its huge 22″ LCD display is one that you won’t miss.”
Interested? Well, of course you are. Can’t wait to get your hands on this one? Ditto. Where can you find it? You can order directly from the PhotoVu website, or you can find it in any Photovu Framing Partners, retail.
As Mr. Jordan has stated, this wireless digital frame is perfect for any business, school, or large living room wall. In a business, it would attract potential customers; in a school, it could display information, weather, sports scores, concerts, etc.; and in your living room it could slideshow your kids, your dog, your cat, your mom, your dad, your Aunt Matilda, and those weird cloud formations over Yellowstone last summer on your vacation. You can scan all your Mom’s old prints and turn those into digital photos, too.
Best of all? You can use your FrameChannel account with it! 
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