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We've never owned a nice flat-screen tv but this year we splurged during an extensive family room renovation and got a 65-inch Samsung Frame TV. I know many of you do slideshows on big TVs with Apple AirPlay but this is a little different.
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I knew it would be cool for photos (shows your art with the tv is off - with a nice white beveled mat), but I was not prepared for the long-term joy it would offer up. All of us take a ton of travel & landscape images, but you've only got so much wall space to give that stuff. Plus, some images are right on the edge (do I really want to print THAT photo at 65"?). With this tv, you dump them on the device and see them in rotation (fastest slideshow is 3 minutes so all images linger a bit). Some random reflections after 6 months ...
- 20 megapixels is enough for .... well, anyone who doesn't need to crop. I took a whole-city shot of Ouray Colorado from the Box Canyon overlook and you can walk right up to the screen and read the name "Beaumont" on the famous hotel which is tiny in the image. Ok, that's enough resolution for me (20mp is 5400px and the screen is 4k)
- smart phone photos (I have an iPhone SE 2) look ok with upsizing. I don't shoot many photos on a phone, except for on ski slopes. Last year we had a biblical amount of snow in the West and some of the scenes at resorts were photos-worthy.
- early dSLR (Canon 20D, etc) look good with upsizing
- 16x9 is fun ratio to shoot for. On recent travels, I've added hotkey on my R6 to shoot in various ratios (full image is recorded but you can compose with the alternate format)
- The sarcastic line "take a photo it will last longer" really does apply. So many scenes in your travel life happen so quickly, but when you view a cliffside shot at 65 inches, you're there again. I say often photography is the ultimate time machine, and this is a great example. I can recall how I felt and how these smelled when I see some scenes that large.
- It's a never-ending conversation starter. We had a party over the Summer, and a wide aerial shot of Washington DC came up. One of our guests walked right up to the screen, pointed to it a spot and remarked, "That was my Dad's office for over 30 years". Relatives will comment on big Colorado scenes — "That's where we got our Jeep stuck," and so on.
- It's a great place to sample new processing techniques. When LR beta'd the new lens blur recently, I found a few flat images and added a little bokeh. When they come up in rotation for 3 minutes, you're able to really evaluate. For weddings, I'm pretty rigid on film emulation processing, keeping a consistent look in a large photo essay. With a one-off image, you can play a bit and do things I normally wouldn't do. Either looks great or like shite so you adjust and move on.
- I didn't realize how many William Eggleston-style random scene/street photos I shoot when traveling. Turns out, that's perfect for this format.
To sum up, our wedding image-making lives have become about making a bazillion images that get viewed for a instant on a format so small (a smartphone) that old people need to put on glasses to see them. A second later, another small image. The FrameTV experience is a pause from that. Jumbo imagery slowly delivered. It's quite refreshing.
This has me thinking I need to get a vertical image presentation solution. A smaller FrameTV mounted vertically would be too panoramic in shape. Older iPad Pro mounted on the wall? Do you show personal images electronically?
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