Thanks for the replies. I did more checking around and tried the camera's video output on a few different lcd players. Only the ones costing $250 and up seemed capable of freezing the image, in other words display it without vibrating it. There was only one, a Panasonic I believe, that did any justice to displaying my images. At nearly $300, I'm halfway towards a new laptop, and probably all the way towards a used one. At that point I began to wish I had put out the extra moolah and got the rebel xti instead of the xt.
A couple things of interest- one of the picture frames, a Kodak, claims to be able to handle a camera directly without requiring the insertion of a memory card. It wouldn't work with the rebel xt, but I wonder if it would have worked with a Kodak camera. Another thing- I put a flash stick into the best looking picture frame (also the most expensive on display at the store) and viewed my images. They didn't look as good as the built-in slide show that was on the frame, though they look great on my monitor at home. I'm wondering if there was an issue with re-sizing my images to fit the screen. I'm going to re-sample some of my pics to 800x600 and see how well the frame handles that.
This hasn't been a particularly encouraging experience. The time I wasted looking for this particular solution would have been better spent working on my latest project- a better instruction manual for the rebel. I'm using MS paint and Irfanview to come up with some 4x6 inch 'info cards' with various images of parts of the camera- the viewfinder screen, the lcd info screen, and the various buttons and dials on the body of the camera. I've put a lot of text along with the images to describe things, and in a manner which is intuitive and makes sense to me. Once I have everything detailed on these cards, I'll have them printed, then assemble them into a 'booklet' which I can keep in the camera bag. I'll have a nice full color guide with readable sized printing and efficient reference material. Just going through this process is giving me an education on the use of the camera.
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