Coaster Lover
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With a ride photo, everyone is in a well predicted location looking in a well predicted direction resulting in consistent photos from an automated camera. With a meet & greet... not so much...
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News PhotoPass at some character locations being replaced by automated cameras
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With a ride photo, everyone is in a well predicted location looking in a well predicted direction resulting in consistent photos from an automated camera. With a meet & greet... not so much...
DisneyDreamer08
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There is a big difference between an action shot and a posed portrait. Especially with kids. I can just picture Tinker Bell instructing little kids to look at the tiny box on the wall and smile.
What box?
Where do we look?
I don’t wanna look at the box!
I can’t see the box!
Where’s the box?
What color is it?
Why is it green?
Next! Thanks for coming!
durangojim
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aliceismad
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Photo pass photographers only make $8 an hour?
zero creativity
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Is there going to be a big screen that you can see yourself in to try and set up a shot?
Most of them are college program I believe.
cosmicgirl
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I agree with the consensus: what a load of crap. The absolute best Photopass shots are the ones where the photographer sees a moment before the guests even know it's happening. 
Q: What's the difference between a Photopass Photographer and a college kid with a camera?I agree with the consensus: what a load of crap. The absolute best Photopass shots are the ones where the photographer sees a moment before the guests even know it's happening.
A:
Nothing.
aliceismad
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That’s pretty horrible. I thought it was great when I made $8 an hour in college but that was 15+ years ago and in a much lower cost-of-living area. And I didn’t have to deal with crying and snotty kids.
I agree autophotos seems like a crappy idea.
MickeyMinnieMom
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Aren't they moving to $15/hr over the next couple of years... should have predicted this, no...?
What will they do when the automatic camera box has a malfunction? Let me guess.....it will require an actual human being to take the photos.
cosmicgirl
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I agree with the consensus: what a load of crap. The absolute best Photopass shots are the ones where the
Happy?
geekza
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Most of those photos are terrible and you have to get lucky if you want to see a good pic of your group. They'd be far better if they had human photographers, but in the case of ride photos, it isn't really feasible. This is just a cost-cutting measure. Charge more, deliver less.
I'm glad we'll be there just under the wire so we can have a human.
There just wont be any pictures during the outage.
Is that confirmed? I would think a majority of guests at a M&G want the picture to remember the moment. Seems it would be a no brainer to have a human step in and take photos.
GlacierGlacier
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I remember hearing rumors about this a little over a year back.
We'll see how this turns out.
We'll see how this turns out.