Does anyone recommend PhotoPass?

[daliseurat]

Has anyone experienced any difficulty reading their photo pass CD when you returned home.

Our family just returned. We can only read/see about 22 of our pictures. We see them all online.

We can not get much info from Disney.

Call Disney again. If they don't just agree to send you a new CD get firm. The CD is pricey and you deserve to be able to read all the pics. try it in a friends computer as well.

Sounds like a defect CD.

 

[BSikor]

I love it. Its a great service even if I don't but all the pics. Its nice to pic and choose.

 

[DisneyFan1216]

Wow, I guess I am the only one disappointed in Photopass. I am looking at my images from last week and I am just so sick that these are the only images I have. I ended up with 100 images after adding borders to several. I'm guessing more than half are not worth printing! The focus points were not always on our faces so the backgrounds are sharp, but the faces are not. For the night pics, most are blurred. This is because of low shutter speed, but with a tripod, it should not have been this bad. The flash is too much on the images done with the princesses inside Mickey's Toontown. In a controlled environment such as that, there should not be any difficulty with the exposures being correct.

The worst part is that the images all looked ok when previewing them online. Only when I opened them on my computer from the CD was I able to see the poor quality.

I won't be using photopass again.

 

[KingStefan]

Wow, I guess I am the only one disappointed in Photopass. I am looking at my images from last week and I am just so sick that these are the only images I have. I ended up with 100 images after adding borders to several. I'm guessing more than half are not worth printing! The focus points were not always on our faces so the backgrounds are sharp, but the faces are not. For the night pics, most are blurred. This is because of low shutter speed, but with a tripod, it should not have been this bad. The flash is too much on the images done with the princesses inside Mickey's Toontown. In a controlled environment such as that, there should not be any difficulty with the exposures being correct.

The worst part is that the images all looked ok when previewing them online. Only when I opened them on my computer from the CD was I able to see the poor quality.

I won't be using photopass again.

Yeah, I kinda do see your point. I had some of the same complaints as you did. Just not as many. I had about 150-200 pics before adding borders. Many of them were of good quality. Maybe I had better luck with photographers than you did.

However, the percentage where somebody had their eyes closed and there was no re-take, the blurry long-exposure shots, where the photographer never said "be very still, this will be a longer exposure", poor composition, other people in photo, etc., was disappointing. I had no problem with focus or flash photo exposure, though.

I had the same phenom of photos looking better on-line until you get the hi-res. But that is normal.

But altogether, considering how much you pay to have prints made at WDW versus doing it yourself from a CD, I thought it was still a good value, especially at the discount price of $99. If you get about 10 or more good photos, your still ahead of the game, compared to buying 10 5x7s at WDW. Plus you have your own digital copies, and you can get smaller prints, do montages, etc.

I still think the price is too high for either the CD or prints, but that's another topic. And remember, everything about WDW is expensive.

Still, you'd think that they could get a bit better percentage quality shots. Or at least do more re-takes. That would make the value even more.