PhotoPass CD Increase

[MaryJaneP]

Here's a really bad idea. So bad that it is sure to be adopted. Its called X-Photopass. You schedule your photo opportunities 180 days in advance and have a limited time window in which to get your picture taken. Then they charge you whether you got the photo or not. Stay tuned.

 

[Gt2BtheGoodLife]

Just wanna say seriously, is the photopass CM hating really needed here? And we don't purposefully mess up the pictures on your own camera. Unless you hand us a D90 then you're not going to get the same exact photo we take. I know some photographers, myself included, are sometimes not comfortable playing with a guests camera so may not play with the zoom at all or ask if you've got night settings on your camera or whatever (I always ask at night though, and always show the guest their photo on their camera to make sure they like it). Try going to Universal and ask them if they can take one with your camera, they wont.

As for the price, these things happen. Welcome to Disney, we should all know this by now .Think about it. Where else can you take AS MANY photos, be it with characters (and you know how we fire off with characters!), in front of the castle, or just a spontaneous shot taken int he park, and put them on a CD for under 200 dollars? And then be able to make three, yes three, separate copies of each image?

Just going to put that out there.

 

[dreamfinder]

should be ok. You just get a code that you'll enter when you finalize your photos and check out.

As a PP already mentioned, no more code, it goes into your account as a credit that gets automatically applied on checkout.

Thanks for the heads up on the increase, hadn't seen about that yet. Considering my last order ended up shipping me 12 CDs, I'm fairly happy with the service. Some of the CMs are obviously better than others, but I find that I get vastly better results (even on my camera) than when I ask a random CM or guest to take my picture.

 

[lebeau]

Please note that we are not able to refund orders that are more than six
(6) months old. If you purchase the pre-arrival package, we will not be
able to refund this purchase more than six (6) months from the date of
purchase.

Well, that stinks.

We'll be there late Oct/early Nov. So if I buy now and my pictures aren't worth the money, I guess I'm stuck with them.

 

[DisDadEddie]

The pre-order price is increasing too as of March 20th, here is the info.


The price of the PhotoPass PhotoCD is going up from $149.95 to $169.95 on March 21st. You can preorder the PhotoPass CD for $99.95 through March 20th for an upcoming trip. Beginning March 21st, the preorder price will also go up to $129.95. More information, including the “opportunity” to preorder the PhotoCD here: http://www.disneyphotopass.com/previsitoffer.aspx.

 

[Brian Noble]

no Photopass photographer could ever in a million years hope to do as good a job as someone like our own WDWFigment

Super. Will WDWFigment follow me around for a week and ship me the images on CD for $180?

 

[BigThunderMatt]

To me, PhotoPass is just one of those things where if you don't spend at least a quarter of your trip participating in it, you just aren't getting your moneys worth out of it. I feel like you would have to spend a LOT of time getting your picture taken to make the cost less prohibitive. The same goes for the Dining Plan. Unless you plan on really eating a lot more frequently, and taking at least an hour or two each day for TS (unless you use up your credits faster at a bunch of signatures), you've wasted your money, even with free dining it can be a waste if you don't use it to its full potential since free dining may very well have been your motivation for booking the trip in the first place.

I'm sure most people on here that take advantage of these services have the ability to maximize their potential, but Disney banks on all those guests that are poor planners who will toss money here and there because they like the idea of something and then have no idea how to properly utilize it.

In my case, I'd much rather spend all that extra time experiencing attractions than getting my picture taken or sitting in a TS restaurant.

 

[Howdy]

On our honeymoon we stopped at every photopass person that we saw and had our picture taken, went to all of the character meet and greet locations that we could find and used both our point and shoots and the photopass card. I went ahead and bought the CD and am very very happy that I did. The quality of the 127 photos on our disk was far superior to any picture taken with our camera, simply because our camera kind of sucked. Until they charge $500 for a disk I will purchase one for every trip that we take to Disney. I have a nice camera, but don't like lugging it around the park all the time, so it's nice to use the small cheaper one for the random shots we want, but know that we have access to really nice pictures as well.

 

[olinecoach61]

Super. Will WDWFigment follow me around for a week and ship me the images on CD for $180?

Well said!

 

[Tom]

Super. Will WDWFigment follow me around for a week and ship me the images on CD for $180?

$180? Probably not. Airfare from Indy to Orlando would put 'ol Tommy B in the hole at that rate.

 

[Mymeme]

I was told an amount but I honestly don't remember the exact figure. Like I mentioned they will also introduce Photopass Plus which includes the CDs, on-ride photos, etc at a higher price point.

Do you have any info on when the PhotoPass Plus may be available? Thanks
Susan

 

[Thurp]

Do you have any info on when the PhotoPass Plus may be available? Thanks
Susan

I wish I had paid more attention but I want to say early April but maybe it will be announced once the new prices take effect? Either way it shouldn't be too much longer.

 

[Mymeme]

I wish I had paid more attention but I want to say early April but maybe it will be announced once the new prices take effect? Either way it shouldn't be too much longer.

Thanks! I just purchased the PhotoPass preorder for our May trip. Hopefully if this Plus is out by then we can just upgrade. I hope!!

Susan

 

[MissM]

Super. Will WDWFigment follow me around for a week and ship me the images on CD for $180?

Well said!

Hardly. The sarcastic comment is clearly being purposefully obtuse and intentionally misunderstanding my comment. The original comment was QUOTE:NOTHING can beat what the Photopass photographers take which is just patently untrue. There are MANY, MANY things which can beat their pictures. Tom's stunning examples merely being one many of us are familiar with. I never said he was available for being your personal photographer to follow you around the park. And, in fact, Photopass photographers don't even do that so the entire comment is just, well, pointless.

 

[Tigger1988]

Actually you can have a Disney Photographer follow you around on your trip.

Regardless, rude comments about Photopass Photographers are not needed.

 

[GTOKID]

photopass

We pre order a cd for each trip. I ordered the extended pass and hope to use for my Disney land trip with my Disney world trip 3 weeks later.

 

[MissM]

Actually you can have a Disney Photographer follow you around on your trip.

Regardless, rude comments about Photopass Photographers are not needed.

No, you can have pay an entirely separate rate for a Disney photographer to follow you around. That is NOT included in the standard $149 ($169) rate. That is a per-hour basis and MUCH more expensive than Photopass. Photopass photographers are stationary and you go to them.

Link: http://www.disneyeventphotography.com/portraits/

And it's hardly "rude" to state that they are not the literal best photographers in the world.

 

[docdebbi]

of course the photopass photographer won't follow you around, but I have had them come to where the kids are playing and take pics for us. We find someone who doesn't look busy, especially in fantasyland, and ask politely, and they seem very happy to help us out.
In particular, we have had some truly great candid shots of our kids playing with the sword in the stone, on the carousel, on the teacups, and actually inside Winnie the Pooh's house. Yup, that guy stuck his camera right inside the tree for us and got some really tremendous shots.
Obviously if they have a line of folks waiting for them, they're not going anywhere, but we have been very lucky and very grateful for the attention and time spent on us.

 

[devoy1701]

this thread has gone beyond ridiculous.

 

[flynnibus]

No, you can have pay an entirely separate rate for a Disney photographer to follow you around. That is NOT included in the standard $149 ($169) rate. That is a per-hour basis and MUCH more expensive than Photopass. Photopass photographers are stationary and you go to them.

Err.. the point was.. photopass equates to having a photographer around on call almost all the time. The value is in having a photographer with dedicated equipment 'on demand'.

If you wanted WDWFigment to take your picture.. you'd have to have the equivalent WDWFigment follow you around all the time.

Photopass is everywhere... wdwfigment is not. One can not expect the same if one is not willing to pay for the same.