I found your digital photo frame group test (PCW April 2008) very interesting, but I feel you have missed two important points.

I have one of these picture frames which is very similar to the featured Cenomax, but without the remote control. It works well and is very satisfactory when viewed from a distance of one metre or greater.

I reduce my photos in Paint Shop Pro to the optimum size of 480x234 - some of my albums contain hundreds of photos, so I do them in batches of around 20. I then put the reduced size photo album onto a 256MB SD card and run the photo frame.

The frame ignores the alphabetical or numerical sequencing, instead playing them back by what appears to be each photo's time stamp, thus throwing my holiday photos out of sequence. It also treats the albums in the same way. I tried renaming the photos within the albums after reducing the size, but it made no difference.

Based on the fact I should be able to get approximately 7,000 resized photos on a 256MB SD card, another problem comes to light: if I switches the unit off overnight, it restarts at what it thinks is the first album again.

The chances of getting through 7,000 photos in one day is limited, so I am unlikely to see the most recent additions to the Photo Frame shown unless I leave it on permanently going through its slide show.

Ron Hak