Originally Posted By Donny I was at Magic Kingdom last night and I was taking pictures of the castle and I was constantly being asked to take pictures of couples and families(I love to do it),but I noticed that every single time I explained that any photopass person can give them a photopass card and that it can be used at any of the parks.With photopass being around for while now I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas on how Disney could better inform guests of this great service.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Photopass is great, but it costs money. I'm sure many people would rather have pictures taken with their own camera for free. One trip we made sure to stop at every photopass CM we saw and at the end of the trip we bought the CD. I think we had like 32 pictures on it! I think having that many pics on the CD makes it worth the cost.
Originally Posted By sjhym333 You can also ask the photopass person to take a picture with your camera.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: My sisters and I have had mostly bad experiences with photo pass. For one thing, the photographers don't seem to do a very good job in capturing what we asked for. When your standing front of the castle or some other famous Disney landmark, and you specifically ask to make sure that landmark is included in the background, you don't expect to have a tight shot of just you and your family--with no clue that you're even at the park! Yet this is often what we get when we let those clueless people take our picture. ORGOCH: Well, ya can blame big ol' Orwen fer that! Even the widest angle lens cain't capture nothin' but HER!! ORDDU: Then there's the fact that the development of those pictures are often too dark and not at all the good quality you would expect from such expensive photos. Our advice would be to only tell an enemy about PhotoPass. Your friends might not be friends any more if you suggest something to them that's just not worth it.
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS We utilized Photopass on our recent WDW trip and our photopass had 312 pictures on it. We took our Photopass card back here to Disneyland and got a way better price for the CD. Saved over a hundred dollars by doing that. I think that every WDW and DL guest are well aware of the service, they just don't want to pay WDW's inflated prices. It's much cheaper to get here at DL.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I had no idea it was that much more at WDW. We actually got ours at Disneyland --- how much is it at WDW?
Originally Posted By elene We always do Photopass at WDW but we rarely even see Photopass photographers at Disneyland/DCA. I would definitely not bother if you are only going to the DL resort and not WDW. I know the pre-purchase price at WDW was $99 (recently) but I didn't think there was a difference between the prices for the parks, is there? Plus I hear that the Photopass photographers will take pictures with your camera for you also.
Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS DL (in park) was something like $70 but with Annual Pass discount it was much cheaper.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Yeah. I was thinking we paid about $40 to $45 at DL about 3 1/2 years ago.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin I seriously considered this for our last trip to WDW because DH and I have pictures of each other and would like more of us. But the price was prohibitive. Also, where are the PhotoPass photographers other than with characters? We saw one in front of the tree at DAK and one to the right of the castle at MK. When we did Tusker House, I thought maybe we should have gotten it, but those photos don't go on the photo pass and must be bought separately. We did have the photo pass guy by the castle take a couple photos of us, but we didn't even look them up online because the ones on our camera are good. We did run into people who did not know that there was PhotoPass. We were going to buy one print of us on EE, but $19!?!?!
Originally Posted By Donny Yeah I think if they cut their price in half they would see more people use it
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Keep in mind if you have a Disney Visa you can get a free 5X7 at EPCOT and DCA. Deets are on the card's web site.
Originally Posted By Donny Here is some info <a href="http://www.disneyrewards.com/perks/wdw-perks" target="_blank">http://www.disneyrewards.com/p...dw-perks</a>
Originally Posted By tink2680 We got our free 5x7 of our special character meet n greet with that Visa card. I actually dont' remember the price of buying the whole CD but if we had actually said yes to all of our photos I think I would have bought it. My mother is very against paying for anything so we said no to a lot of photos. I think that on our next trip I will try and get as many photos as we can and them most likely buy the cd.
Originally Posted By tashajilek Witches, i have tried photopass many times too only to have horrible pictures taken. I also noticed the price increase at WDW for FP and higher prices for other merchandise too.
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin We have the Disney Visa but didn't want to do the free photo with characters by Innoventions. We prefer pictures with just us.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Yes, tashajilek, duckling, the quality of the photos is truly horrible in some cases. One would think there would be quality control people to monitor this but it seems to be more about raking in the money than satisfying the customer. ORGOCH: Well, heck! That's been the Dizzy comp'ny's motto ever since Ei$ner took over and this Iger the Ogre jerk's just as bad.
Originally Posted By tashajilek Well in our case we were in DL during Halloween and the Mickey pumpkin had a huge line and our pictures were taken so quickly. Anyways, we went to check the pictures out and my eyes were closed in both pictures lol.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: The photographers have the ability to show you what your pictures will look like right after they take then and there was a time when they would allow you to view them. Then--for some stupid reason--they said they weren't allowed to do that any longer. Therefore you end up wasting time by standing in lines to view your pictures at the Camera Center. If they don't turn out the way you would like, it becomes a hassel to go back and have them re-taken, assuming you can even do that after all the time has gone by. And if you want a picture taken in daylight, it may be dark by the time you find out what was already taken isn't what you wanted. The whole program isn't set up as well as it could be.
Originally Posted By tashajilek "Then--for some stupid reason--they said they weren't allowed to do that any longer. Therefore you end up wasting time by standing in lines to view your pictures at the Camera Center." That was exactly my problem. One day we were set on getting photpass pictures and waited until the day was over to check them. Needless to say the pictures didnt turn out and we decided not to try again.
