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here is the email again without all the junk, sorry
Getting married? Thinking about getting disposable cameras to put on the table? Here are the top 5 reasons why you should use The Wedding Lens instead to gather the candid photos your guests take at your wedding in a single online album.
5. You can collect photos from the entire wedding experience.
With The Wedding Lens, your guests can upload all of the photos they took of you as an engaged couple, your wedding day or as newlyweds. Many people carry their cell phones and digital cameras with them at all times, so you can see your wedding from their point of view. This can include engagement parties, bridal showers, rehearsal dinners, getting ready, the ceremony, reception, celebration, after hours party, next day brunch and even your honeymoon. ALL your guests can easily bulk upload their photos of you to your personal account on The Wedding Lens so that you have a full-resolution copy of every one to save, print and relive the memories.
Disposable cameras generally only sit on the table and only capture what happens during the reception. There is much more to your wedding then the reception. How many photos do you want of your guests eating anyway?
4. The Wedding Lens is a Hassle Free solution.
With The Wedding Lens, you can be set up and ready to go in about 5 to 10 minutes. And you can be ready to go months in advance of your wedding so you can focus on other last minute details. It is easy customize your album home page with a welcome picture, a welcome message and your wedding details. Next you can bulk upload your guests email addresses, cut and paste them or just key them in. You are done in 5 to 10 minutes. We do all of the rest for you. We send your guests a reminder email before your wedding encouraging them to bring their cameras and email them after your wedding to remind them to upload and share their photos. We make it easy. Plus after the wedding, if your guests want to keep or print any of the photos, they can do so on their own.
With disposable cameras, you have to find the right cameras, order them, the color/pattern to your wedding, receive them in the mail, remember to bring them to the reception dinner, put them on the tables, remember to collect them at the end of the night (if you can find them) and mail them back. And after all of that work, many cameras will sit a table unused and you will pay for it anyway. Plus now you have to send around links to your friends and take orders, print the photos, mail them to friends. Why deal with that hassle? A wedding is supposed to be fun.
3. Using The Wedding Lens, you get better film and photo quality.
With The Wedding Lens your guests use their own digital cameras and mobile phones to take pictures at your wedding. Today’s digital cameras are far superior to film quality and in ease of use. Even professionals are all switching to digital technology for the benefits it offers over film. Plus, if a guest is going to take the time to take a picture, they are going to want to keep a copy of it. So, if they are given the choice, they will almost always take a picture with their own far superior digital camera. Using The Wedding Lens, you and any other guests can get a full-resolution copy.
Disposable cameras produce bad photos for many reasons. First the cameras are only at the reception and generally only at the dinner table. Digital quality today is much better then film quality. Plus, because disposable cameras are cheap, they may or may not have a flash, they don't have zoom, the viewfinder is cheap plastic, you have to wind it with the little plastic knob between each picture and because there is no way to check to see if the photo turned out like on digital cameras, the person who took the photo has no idea if the photo was centered or anything.
2. The Wedding Lens is a classy, hip and modern way to get candid photos at your wedding.
With The Wedding Lens, your guests are sent an invitation to bring their digital cameras to your wedding and upload any photos they take. They are also invited to comment on the photos, make favorites or even print the ones they want. You give your guests full control, instead of making them do the work and not getting any of the benefit. It is simple, eloquent and tasteful. Most guests will bring their own personal digital cameras to take awesome photos anyway.
There is no other way to say it, disposable cameras are tacky. They were cool about 5 years ago, but now people have cell phones and digital cameras with them all of the time. Who wants to have cheap plastic disposable camera sitting there in the middle of a beautiful table with guests enjoying a fabulous meal? Tacky. Oh, so they say that you can make them match the colors of your wedding with floral prints on them. Right. No one thinks they blend in. At the last wedding you went to, did you think the eye-sores called plastic disposable cameras "fit in?"
1. The Wedding Lens is Free.
With The Wedding Lens, you don’t pay a dime (or even a penny) unless you get value. You can create your personal album, invite friend, upload 100’s even 1,000’s of full-resolution photos and if the quality and quantity of the photos don’t meet your expectations, you don’t pay a thing. If you have 500 guests, all 500 can bring their digital cameras and upload to your personal album. You can decide to upgrade to a full service album at anytime to take full advantage of all The Wedding Lens has to offer. Weddings are expensive, but you don't have to waste money.
With disposable cameras, they try to make money off you at every corner. They charge you for the cameras, shipping, return shipping, development,... When does it end? And if you buy 27 exposure cameras, most of them come back empty or with just a few crappy pictures actually taken. It’s a big financial risk and headache to not know what you are going to get in return. If you don't like the photos from a disposable camera, guess what. It’s too late. You paid your money.
HTML doens't work on this board like it does on most others - if you copy and paste from anywhere other then a word doc, for the most part - it won't show up correctly.
It's hard to read your e-mail but I'l going to try to answer your main question.
I don't think that it's "wrong" to use them but I do think that they are a huge waste of money! It's what $15 to print 35 mm film and maybe 5 pics on a desposable turn out? I'd skip them!
Looking into your e-mail, from what I gather that e-mail is from a company that is also a huge wastes of money. For free you can send out an e-mail to friends and family asking them to bring their digis with (and most will with out even being asked) you could then start a community album on a web site and have it all for free. (I don't know those sharing photo web sites but I know the other girls on here do!)
So this place wants you to have all your guest e-mail your pics in, and then unless you upgrade, you can't print any of them?? No way. RIP OFF!
Plus their quality in prints could suck, so I say no way. DO it yourself, it sounds like it would take as long to do it yourself as it would to sign up for this rip off of a company.
Well... you can choose to do disposable cameras but at the same time, I think now a days almost everyone has digital cameras. Your guests can upload their pictures to a site you've created (photobucket, flickr, myphotoalbum)
Disposable cameras cost more and you have to develop them to see what pics were taken. And if you have children at the wedding, I am pretty sure you will have un-important candid shots.
At first I was thinking of having disposable cams.... but after thinking about it and trying to be eco-friendly... I wont. In hopes my guests will think of bringing their digi cam.
I dont even know if I;ve helped you out.
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I checked out the site. It takes forever to upload photos (I have DSL and it took 10 minutes to upload 6 photos), and your album is public unless you pay $50 for a membership.
I am using snapfish. The album is free, and password protected. The upload speed is fast. Your guests can order prints for 9 cents each. You can get a photo CD with 50 high-res images for $9.49 and $10 for each additional 150 images. You can also download high res files. $.25 for the first, and $.05 for each additional for up to 50 photos.
I am doing a Polaroid album. Guests take their own picture and sign in the book. I did once consider the disposable idea, but didn't think my guests would use them to their best ability.
I signed up but I tried to look at several sample albums and the site is painfully slow. I don't know about this one.
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I think that guests have fun with the disposable cameras (I certainly have) but agree that you probably get a significant number of bad photos. Although I have to say that many of my friends with average digital cameras manage to take some pretty blurry, underexposed or overexposed pictures too. That's why my photographer is staying through the reception!
I do love snapfish - my sister has an account for her baby pictures, and we have lots of fun with it. Your advertising email pointedly ignores the existance of snapfish and other websites like it, which allow you to upload photos from any source (e.g., digitized from film) and then allow anyone to whom you provide access to order prints directly from the website.
The advertiser, while harping on the idea that disposable cameras are tacky, is ignoring the main thing that is potentially tacky about them - IMO - which is asking your guests to serve as your photographers. If people want to bring digital cameras, that's great. Specifically asking them to bring digital cameras, take pictures, and upload them for you is borderline inappropriate. I want my guests to enjoy the event - not spend it snapping pictures on their cell phones.
If you want a more high-tech option than digital cameras, I would go with a photobooth that provides prints to the guests at the reception, which gets you some fun pictures while being a lot of fun for the guests. In other words, something that still seems like a favor for the guests, rather than pressing them into service for you.
I'm planning on doing both disposable cameras and asking our guests to upload photos to a photo sharing site (probably with a note in the program and a link on our website).
Why both? If I were to just ask people to upload photos, I might not get any candid photos. Guests forget, are lazy, are not tech saavy and can't figure out how to upload their photos (I have a lot of older relatives for whom this will be true), still own film cameras, etc. I mean, I leave photos on my camera for months at a time and forget to e-mail them to my friends, so why should my guests be any different? Any photos that get uploaded, with their higher digital quality, are a bonus. But I'll still have the shots from the table cameras, however blurry, as a candid record of my day.
I'm also planning on using www.itheesnap.com (featured on the blog before) so all that film gets into a digital format. I've considered renting digital cameras for the tables as well, but people take blurry unflattering photos with digital cameras too, so I figure I might as well save the money.
I feel like the biggest regrets I hear about weddings have to do with documentation - I didn't choose the right photographer, I didn't get a videographer, etc. Documentation is a high priority for me, so I feel the extra cost of the table cameras is worth it.
Check out http://www.youshoot.com/ They do basically the same thing as itheesnap.com, but in digital.
The site may say it's use is free, but it also says that you nee to upgrade (which will cost money) if you want to order any photos. - Which I think is useless - why pay a 3rd party for your own photos?
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it probably is an advertisement. but the question still makes sense. i think having the cameras on the table is a waste. i am trying to have an eco friendly wedding and knowing that those cameras will just be thrown out is disturbing. using this site or any of the other photo sharing sites seems like a better idea to me.
Actually, most one-time-use cameras are recycled. Check with your developer to make sure they recycle.
http://www.americanrecycler.com/0804picture.shtml
I would just stick with digital photos. There is bound to be at least one person at every table with their own digital camera, so it's probably just as good to do the thing that Mrs. Lemon did and make little talbe cards telling people how to upload them to Flickr.
Also - as Rachel76 pointed out, they are kind of wasteful. True they can be recycled...but it's better for the environment to not create it in the first place.
Plastic can be recylced but it never goes away and the manufacturing of it in the first place is quite pollutive. Film is also very pollutive and the chemicals used to manufacture and develop it are very toxic and hard to dispose of.
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So I got this email the other day and was wondering if anyone else did. I can see the advantages of disposable cameras, but this email made sense. Does anyone else agree?
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