Any idea what the shipping costs to Canada would be? Can you add the overlays after you buy the cd?
All US shipping of prints and CDs is $2.50.
All International shipping of prints and CD's is $5.50.
No you can not add overlays after you buy the cd unless you want to try and create them yourself.
I found that photopass people were hard to find in some parks and in some areas where I would have expected them to be.
I agree there were several photopass people that seemed extremely helpful but the majority that we ran into made me feel like we were annoying them.
There were also a few shots that Stitch and Tinkerbell were supposed to be added to and they are not. All 7 of us look a little funny pointing at nothing on the ground.
Some days we are hard to find. Some days you fall all over us. Depends on who calls in sick. One day we had no one at the entrance, no one behind spaceship earth, and only 3 out of 5 characters covered in character spot. What are you going to do?
Most of our cast members are friendly. Some are not...until a manager is around watching them.
It is always good to check your photos before you leave. We can add the magic to the photos if somehow they got overlooked.
Does anyone out there know how much the photopass cd is if you purchase it in the parks... not in advance.
$124.95
All very good points, but if the guest hands you the same model of camera that you have or another dslr will you change the settings for the guest to the pre-determined "best settings" so that his/her pics come out as good as yours?
Unfortunately I think that some other CMs without as much photo expertise as yourself may rely on those predetermined settings without really thinking about exposure which is why a significant number of photopass pics may not come out exposed correctly (I only speak from personal experience).
You make a great point about loosing pics and have illustrated the need for nightly backups of your pics regardless if someone is using photopass or not.
I'm glad that there are some real photogs like you taking our pics.
I'll happily and have happily changed the settings for a guest camera. However, the setting we use requires a little skill. One being the ability to focus on one spot, hold the focus and then re frame the photo.
We are FORBIDDEN from changing the camera settings on the Disney cameras even when we know they are the wrong settings. I hate the camera settings at the Entrance to Epcot and I hate the camera settings for some general indoor photography candids. But I have to use them. So I adapt.
Nightly back ups are a wonderful thing. Of course there was they guest running around on their last day trying to catch up on photos because their laptop was stolen from their hotel. There was also the guest running around because their laptop crashed, they were going to have to uninstall and reinstall windows and they hadn't double backed up the photos.
Again, you don't have to buy photopass, but isn't it nice to know it is there if you need it.
Photopass is like characters. Sure you might run into a couple along the way, but for the most part, you are going to have to search them out and plan to see them.
