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Summary: Reunion
Review: At a recent family reunion where we all took pictures of the same scenes, we were able to plug in the Photo Viewer and enjoy each other's pictures. Another tourist at The Monterey Aquarium took several group photos of us. It was great to see them and choose the best (not easy with 17 subjects). The large size on the TV made selection much easier.
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Summary: Does not work with my Kodak camera
Review: Frustrating. It always gives me a message saying "Card error" when I insert my SanDisk CF card from my Kodak DC240 digital camera. I can view the pictures in the camera but the DPV does not work. The sandisk website FAQ is also not very helpful.
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Summary: Useful, but a few caveats...
Review: Got this "free" from Amazon recently, when I bought a Sandisk CompactFlash card. As some of the other reviews said, it was easy to hook up and worked great right out of the box. However, after using it a bit more, I have come up with a couple small issues. (NOTE: I have a Canon Digital Rebel 6.3MP camera and usually shoot large JPEGs.)- The memory card reader is relatively slow at reading the large files generated by the camera. The JPEG files from the Digital Rebel are typically between 4 and 6 MB and they can take 10-15 seconds to display. This isn't much a problem during a slide show, but when you want to jump ahead it makes it difficult because the device seems like it isn't responding. You'd think with Sandisk being the current king of fast flash, that the reader would be quicker. - The card reader cannot (or will not) read files larger than 5.3MB. You get an error on the screen saying as much, if you try. My pictures aren't typically this big, but depending the picture they can be, which is even more irritating because some pictures from a given card will show up while others won't. - Another warning for those that use high quality digital SLRs etc, is that this camera reads ONLY JPEG files. It does not display RAW files, nor can it extract the embedded JPEGs. Of course, I didn't expect it to do so, but this may not be clear to other potential buyers. Obviously, I could shoot lower quality (but if I spend that much on a camera, why would I?) or I could convert the images to smaller files on the PC (but this eliminates the ease of use factor). I think if I had paid for this product rather than receiving it free, the above issues might give enough reason for me to return it.
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Summary: It does NOT work with Minolta and HP formatted cards
Review: Got this "free" from Amazon recently, when I bought a Sandisk CompactFlash card. As some of the other reviews said, it was easy to hook up and worked great right out of the box. However, after using it a bit more, I have come up with a couple small issues. (NOTE: I have a Canon Digital Rebel 6.3MP camera and usually shoot large JPEGs.) - The memory card reader is relatively slow at reading the large files generated by the camera. The JPEG files from the Digital Rebel are typically between 4 and 6 MB and they can take 10-15 seconds to display. This isn't much a problem during a slide show, but when you want to jump ahead it makes it difficult because the device seems like it isn't responding. You'd think with Sandisk being the current king of fast flash, that the reader would be quicker. - The card reader cannot (or will not) read files larger than 5.3MB. You get an error on the screen saying as much, if you try. My pictures aren't typically this big, but depending the picture they can be, which is even more irritating because some pictures from a given card will show up while others won't. - Another warning for those that use high quality digital SLRs etc, is that this camera reads ONLY JPEG files. It does not display RAW files, nor can it extract the embedded JPEGs. Of course, I didn't expect it to do so, but this may not be clear to other potential buyers. Obviously, I could shoot lower quality (but if I spend that much on a camera, why would I?) or I could convert the images to smaller files on the PC (but this eliminates the ease of use factor). I think if I had paid for this product rather than receiving it free, the above issues might give enough reason for me to return it.
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Summary: Useful, but a few caveats...
Review: Got this "free" from Amazon recently, when I bought a Sandisk CompactFlash card. As some of the other reviews said, it was easy to hook up and worked great right out of the box. However, after using it a bit more, I have come up with a couple small issues. (NOTE: I have a Canon Digital Rebel 6.3MP camera and usually shoot large JPEGs.) - The memory card reader is relatively slow at reading the large files generated by the camera. The JPEG files from the Digital Rebel are typically between 4 and 6 MB and they can take 10-15 seconds to display. This isn't much a problem during a slide show, but when you want to jump ahead it makes it difficult because the device seems like it isn't responding. You'd think with Sandisk being the current king of fast flash, that the reader would be quicker. - The card reader cannot (or will not) read files larger than 5.3MB. You get an error on the screen saying as much, if you try. My pictures aren't typically this big, but depending the picture they can be, which is even more irritating because some pictures from a given card will show up while others won't. - Another warning for those that use high quality digital SLRs etc, is that this camera reads ONLY JPEG files. It does not display RAW files, nor can it extract the embedded JPEGs. Of course, I didn't expect it to do so, but this may not be clear to other potential buyers. Obviously, I could shoot lower quality (but if I spend that much on a camera, why would I?) or I could convert the images to smaller files on the PC (but this eliminates the ease of use factor). I think if I had paid for this product rather than receiving it free, the above issues might give enough reason for me to return it.
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Summary: Piece of JUNK
Review: I am sad to say that this is the first review I have written on Amazon. But I was so disappointed in the performance of this porduct I just had to express myself. Even though this porduct was free, I expect it to "work". I hooked it up to my S-video port on my TV, turned on the device with a 512MB card containing ~20 3.2 megapixel photos. I was able to view the first 3, then it locked up. I tried several other times with other cards, photos, etc...all with the same results. Luckily my Canon camera came with a video out to display on the TV and I don't have to deal with this piece of JUNK. I give it one star because the batteries for the remote worked.
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Summary: GROUP PRESENTATIONS
Review: I BELONG TO SEVERAL CLUBS AND ALWAYS RECORD EVENTS WITH MY " DIGITAL CAMERA....... NOW I CAN SHOW THE PICTURES TO THE WHOLE GROUP AT OUR MEETINGS.... ALSO YOU CAN UP LOAD PICTURES ON YOUR CAMERA CHIP AND SHOW THEM..... IT IS REALLY NEAT AND I GET LOTS OF POSITIVE COMMENTS....... ENJOY!!!!!!!
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Summary: GROUP PRESENTATIONS
Review: I BELONG TO SEVERAL CLUBS AND ALWAYS RECORD EVENTS WITH MY " DIGITAL CAMERA....... NOW I CAN SHOW THE PICTURES TO THE WHOLE GROUP AT OUR MEETINGS.... ALSO YOU CAN UP LOAD PICTURES ON YOUR CAMERA CHIP AND SHOW THEM..... IT IS REALLY NEAT AND I GET LOTS OF POSITIVE COMMENTS....... ENJOY!!!!!!!
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Summary: Be Aware MS PRO users!
Review: I bought this photo viewer for my 1G Memory Stick Pro card, and just when it arrived that i noticed it does not read PRO MS. Nothing mentioned that it does not read PRO cards, and I assumed that it worked for all Memory Sticks...Now its useless for me. SanDisk should have explained that it was made for MS cards and not MS PRO! But its a nice viewer when used for all other memory cards.
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Summary: WHY DON'T MORE PEOPLE BUY THIS
Review: I can not understand why this item is not flying off store shelves. There are a lot of people that would love to get into digital photography, but either do not have a computer, or the skills necessary to get the photos from the camera to a DVD. Guess which one I am. Every person that has seen the photo viewer that I purchased, has ordered one for themselves, even the cable guy that fixed my cable box. It is harder to get it out of it's package, than it is to set up. The instructions are not too clear, but I was up and running in less time than it took to type this sentence. When I travel, I take tons of digital photos. When I get back, using a SanDisk reader/writer, I pick the best 50 photos, and write them to one SmartMedia card. Then using photo viewer, I show my pics to our family. It works just as advertised, and has not been added to that big box of stuff that sounded good, but either was junk, or that I could not figure it out.
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