(just a brainstorm)
The Magic Pad.
If you want a CM to take your picture with your camera you must put the camera on the Magic Pad and then step back and the CM will pick up the camera. When he is done he will put the camera back on the Magic Pad for you.
This, believe it or not, greatly reduces the problem of dropped cameras.
(The Magic Pad does not have to be anything more than a mouse pad that the CM (Photopass photographer?) laid on the ground.)