Disney's PhotoPass ?

[jandcprince]

Had a friend just get back from Disney and they had a Photo Pass card. Had not heard of this and wondered what it was.

Thanks

 

[KeithVH]

The first time you have a park photog take your pic, they give you a numbered card. That's YOUR number. You can then go to the photo store at the front of each park and have your shot printed and purchased. When you go to another spot, and another shooter takes your pic, give him your card to swipe on his PSD unit.

How it was explained to me: Instead of just buying 1-2 shots, use EVERY opportunity to have a park shooter take your pic. End of youe stay, go to one of the stores. They will write ALL of your pic that will fit on one CD for one price. I think like $80-90. COnsidering a print price each of ~$12 bucks and you can easily get 40-50 shots on a CD, you can save.

 

[LeaveALegacyGuy]

How it was explained to me: Instead of just buying 1-2 shots, use EVERY opportunity to have a park shooter take your pic. End of youe stay, go to one of the stores. They will write ALL of your pic that will fit on one CD for one price. I think like $80-90. COnsidering a print price each of ~$12 bucks and you can easily get 40-50 shots on a CD, you can save.

I work for Kodak over at MK and we do not have the technology to put the pictures on the CD. We are only able to show the guests the pictures they took from MK and print them out for them to take home. As I was explained during my orientation, Epcot is the only park where pictures from all four parks can be viewed and put onto the CD as it is the main park for Photopass. Also what I was told in my orientation was that the pictures only stayed in the system for 3 days, but I am not sure about how long it stays on the system over at the other parks. Hope this helps!:wave:

 

[mrtoad]

I have to say I don't like it. We have gone online and looked at was is on the cards and we have found other people's photos in with ours. People we saw in line right in front of us. Basically what happens I believe is the person doing the photos forgets to clear it out or the person in front of you does not take a card and their shots wind up on your card with yours. So if that is happening when you get your card, you can bet someone is walking around with shots of your kids on there which to me is a big, big issue. At least for me.

 

[Nicole]

I have had great experiences with the Photo Pass. The first time you have a Disney photog take your picture he/she will give you a plastic Photo Pass. Every time you have your photo taken after that give them your card and they'll swipe it again.

Only once (in five trips) have we looked at our pics at the parks. We just wait till we come home and look at them all online. Then you can add borders and characters and all sorts of fun things.

Now the good part - used to be that your only option next was to order prints, either an 8x10 for like $16.95 or a 5x7 for $9.95. Apparently that didn't fly too well with guests, so supposedly in the past few weeks they've started selling a CD of all your photos for $99, WITH a letter authorizing you to have the images printed wherever you choose.

I have never had a problem with other people's pictures showing up on my card, or with any of my pictures going missing. I have a couple times had cards that the magnetic strip got damaged so they wouldn't accept new images, but just got a second Photo Pass and kept on going.

 

[Iakona]

I have had great experiences with the Photo Pass. The first time you have a Disney photog take your picture he/she will give you a plastic Photo Pass. Every time you have your photo taken after that give them your card and they'll swipe it again.

Only once (in five trips) have we looked at our pics at the parks. We just wait till we come home and look at them all online. Then you can add borders and characters and all sorts of fun things.

Now the good part - used to be that your only option next was to order prints, either an 8x10 for like $16.95 or a 5x7 for $9.95. Apparently that didn't fly too well with guests, so supposedly in the past few weeks they've started selling a CD of all your photos for $99, WITH a letter authorizing you to have the images printed wherever you choose.

I have never had a problem with other people's pictures showing up on my card, or with any of my pictures going missing. I have a couple times had cards that the magnetic strip got damaged so they wouldn't accept new images, but just got a second Photo Pass and kept on going.

They are selling the photo cd. I purchased one with 81 pictures for $99.
There is a letter turning over the rights to you for all non-commercial/personal use. It is also a file on the CD.
When you go to Epcot you can add borders and logos to your pictures. These are then saved as a separate picture so you can have the original as well.
I also believe they stay in longer than 3 days because we had our 1st pictures taken on a Saturday and the next Thursday all were there.


We actually had lunch with the Imagineer whose project PhotoPass is. He was very interested in our feedback. He is working on a lot of enhancements. For instance last year Tink magically appeared in the palm of your hand in one picture. This year baby Simba shows up for AKL and Stitch for MGM. More will be on the way as they get more feedback and work out kinks.

We have used PhotoPAss on 3 different trips now and each time I like it better. Also, if you have wrong pictures or are missing pictures let them know. They have people dedicated to finding them and they do find them. I know because they found some for me last June.

 

[shmmrname]

PhotoPass was pretty convenient/neat, and they even took pictures with our cameras as well, but beyond a GREAT, GREAT picture, I can't see spending that much money on a CD or even multiple prints.

It did make for a great little e-mail to others, as you can let others see your collections of photos. Each photographer took two shots, sometimes using different flashes/settings, and we had 30 pictures on our card and nearly the same amount on the other couple in our group's card.

Also, you can get screenshots of the images that you can keep as keepsakes. They are by no means high quality, or even printable, but they still make a pretty cool memento if you are used to keeping most of your memories digital anyways.

 

[Nicole]

They are selling the photo cd. I purchased one with 81 pictures for $99.
There is a letter turning over the rights to you for all non-commercial/personal use. It is also a file on the CD.
When you go to Epcot you can add borders and logos to your pictures. These are then saved as a separate picture so you can have the original as well.
I also believe they stay in longer than 3 days because we had our 1st pictures taken on a Saturday and the next Thursday all were there.

I didn't know you could do the borders/logos at Epcot, that is good to hear. I think I'll still choose to wait and do it at home online. The pictures are kept online for 30 days - which is fun if you want to let your friends and family look at them too.

 

[swimmom]

We are planning to utilize this on our next trip which will be for my daughters HS graduation and an early 80th birthday present for my mother-in-law (her first trip). It will be a great way of getting group shots of all of us without bothering strangers to take our picture.

 

[CaptainMichael]

There is a way to get them online for free, but at the moment, the process escapes me.

 

[dswatik]

Photo Pass CD

My question is this, after you gather up all your photo pass pics you take the photo pass to Epcot to have the photo pass cd made, can you add borders and character signatures to the pics to have put on the CD? Do they make up the CD right there or do you have to come back for it? Also my last trip was last Janaury and we barely saw any of the photographers around. We are going this October, where do we find them? I hear where people on a week vacation can get up to 50 or so pics from photo pass people, how is that possible? I was lucky to only find one in front of the tree of life in AK, in front of the castle in MK and infront of the bih hat in MGM that was it.. Please help... Also is the photo pass DVD for $49.99 worth the money or is the CD a better choice???
thanks for any help
Debbie

 

[Monty]

On the site with my photos, it has the following under them:

"Please note that photos are available for 30 days after being claimed."

I'm not sure whether they are retained longer than that if you "share" the photos by e-mail, because the slideshow you get when you share doesn't indicate to the people you send it to that there's any expiry date for picture availability. Have a look at mine: http://disneyphotopass.go.com/DPI/r.d?i=428614584

 

[Iakona]

My question is this, after you gather up all your photo pass pics you take the photo pass to Epcot to have the photo pass cd made, can you add borders and character signatures to the pics to have put on the CD? Do they make up the CD right there or do you have to come back for it? Also my last trip was last January and we barely saw any of the photographers around. We are going this October, where do we find them? I hear where people on a week vacation can get up to 50 or so pics from photo pass people, how is that possible? I was lucky to only find one in front of the tree of life in AK, in front of the castle in MK and infront of the bih hat in MGM that was it.. Please help... Also is the photo pass DVD for $49.99 worth the money or is the CD a better choice???
thanks for any help
Debbie

We were there in January as well and had no trouble finding the photographers. We had over 80 pictures taken and put on the CD.

You have to add the borders and signatures before you burn the cd.

I have not bought the DVD so I can't compare the 2.

 

[LeaveALegacyGuy]

About two weeks or so, they changed the system over at ToonTown. Now County Bounty over at ToonTown has the ability to view pictures from all four parks and put them on a CD, but I have heard from other co-workers that the cast members over at County Bounty said that they not do it. I will double check this saturday during work and I can give an exact answer this weekend.
John :wave:

 

[RandeB]

I looked at almost all of our pictures at the Toontown store a couple weeks back, so it does work there.

Our problem was that some pictures hadn't made it into the system yet-it takes a couple hours I was told eventually by a manager.

I ended up getting them at Epcot after waiting in the slowest moving line of all time.

 

[LeaveALegacyGuy]

Our problem was that some pictures hadn't made it into the system yet-it takes a couple hours I was told eventually by a manager.

Once you take your picture on main street or with characters, it takes about 90 minutes-2 hours. However, for the past few weeks, my mananger told me that DPI (Disney photographers, not Kodak) was behind by about 2 hours, so the character pictures in ToonTown and the ones over in Tomorrowland or other areas were in in about 3-4 hours. Tip: make sure you get the character pictures early, just in case DPI is behind.

 

[Yellow Shoes]

We have gone online and looked at was is on the cards and we have found other people's photos in with ours.... you can bet someone is walking around with shots of your kids on there which to me is a big, big issue. At least for me.

I understand you very real concern.

However, any time I have taken photos at WDW, try as I might, I always end up getting someone in the shot that I don't know. It's just a hazard of taking photos in a public place.


About the only way to avoid this is to veil you children like Michael Jackson does.

 

[mrtoad]

I understand that, it just really shocked me that they could make that kind of mistake. You would just think there would be some sort of rules in place to avoid that. Like don't let them use multiple cards for the shots as they were doing. Have them ask you for your card that maybe you are given upon entry to the park or something. Then if you lost it they give you a new one. If you decline they, don't take the shot or something.

They don't even ask half the time if you have a card and you wind up walking around with 3 or 4.

I understand you very real concern.

However, any time I have taken photos at WDW, try as I might, I always end up getting someone in the shot that I don't know. It's just a hazard of taking photos in a public place.


About the only way to avoid this is to veil you children like Michael Jackson does.

 

[mrtoad]

just to follow up though, I do think it is a great idea, it just needs fine tuning. Digital is the way to go, it is cheaper for them for one as 99% of the folks who get shots taken do not care to buy them.

 

[cyclonerod]

any way to copy the pictures to your pc