Viewer to enlarge pics taken in the field on the spot?

Is there a gadget that can be hooked to a camera so that pictures can
be viewed in larger format on the gadget's screen immediately after
they are taken?
Thanks.
Don

 

You could get a prism, as used to be advertised in the 60's that you'd
place in front of your TV to "enlarge" the view. What you gain in size
you lose in sharpness, so I wouldn't do it.

What camera have you? Does it not have a button to enlarge (zoom in) an
area of the image on the back?

 

Yes - it's called a 'laptop computer'.

 

It should be possible to use any PictBridge enabled digital photo frame
to view your pics on something bigger than the camera's LCD.

http://www.digitalpictureframereview.com/2008/10/review-hp-df820-digital-picture-frame

I don't know it there are PictBridge LCD monitors available?

There are also lots of LCD monitors with built-in card readers; check
out the Dell Ultrasharp 20" and 24" models.

Or a latge LCD TV with built-in card reader (photos look superb on my
40" Bravia).

Or use a laptop.

Does it have to be portable, battery powered??

Guy

 

Any laptop, notebook, netbook, ...

Other possible candidates I would be looking into are those clunky cell
phones with the big screens. Mabye there are some models that can read
an external USB mass storage devises or have a memory card slot. Same
for external DVD players.
And although you don't hear much about them any more I seem to remember
that there were some image tanks that had a build-in screen, too.

jue

 

Use the vidoe out port on the camera to connect to any type of
TV/video monitor.

 

A pocket PC will do that. I have one, very sharp 3.7" screen, 640x480 (220
pixels per inch), with SDHC card slot. Unfortunately even the best image
viewer I can find for it (XnView) is sluggish at browsing camera-resolution
images, and the colour rendering is poor since the screen seems fixed at
9000K giving washed out yellows and greens. In the end I decided the
camera's own LCD screen was preferable despite being only half the size.

Overall I think you'd need at least a netbook to provide a worthwhile
improvement over the camera's LCD: 9" 1024x600 display with decent
processor power and (if it has a hard disk) the possibility of clearing
down your SD card for reuse. Perhaps a bit heavy at 1kg but nowhere near as
bad as a full size laptop.