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...album and the slideshow feature are two parts of a philosophy that Sony has adopted, which goes something like this: Small cameras like the N1 go wherever you go. If you're on a plane and want to show pictures of your kids/pets/toy trains to the person sitting next to you, why not pull out your camera, instead of a wallet, PDA or specialized device? And if you do pull out your camera, why not make the slideshow at least partially interesting to your show-n-tell victim...
...recall that, for instance, your wedding anniversary is August 6, then a quick jump to that date in any given year shows you how you celebrated. Once you've found a set of pics you want to show off, you select one of four generic music tracks and a slideshow style like Stylish, Active or Nostalgic, and then tap Start. What you get may not be DVD-ready, but it looks smooth and sounds surprisingly good. You can even scrawl on pictures in your album, using finger as paintbrush, though sadly you cannot export those shots. Not yet, at least...
...with you are also accessible. If you want to upload pictures you just took into an online album, and e-mail those albums around, you can do it with a few clicks, without once touching your computer. On the Nikon, I enjoyed being able to send shots to a slideshow in progress, but that was just a fun diversion. Here, I see the practical side of Wi-Fi connectivity...
...Provided you have an iPod Photo or any newer color-screen model, you can run a slideshow out the S-Video output and onto a TV or projector you bring along. It only works with the iPod in the left-hand dock, however-it can't blend photos from two iPods, the way it blends their sounds...
...walked around the inside and outside of the house with the camera, for the most part getting a reasonable connection to our Wi-Fi network (a router located in my home office). But when I took the P2 and laptop out to the deck to create a live slideshow there, the camera had an awful time. OK, so Wi-Fi can be tricky, but at the same deck table both an Apple PowerBook and an HP Pavilion notebook had no problems connecting to the Internet via the same wireless network...