Can I Videotape???

[bumbershoot]

There are also people, like my friend with visual disabilities, who have slow adjustment times going from light to dark, or dark to light. So if we go from daylight into a dark ride, it might take the first 5 minutes inside for her to even be able to see. We'll try to step aside and let enough people go by us to let her eyes adjust. She might wear dark sunglasses on a bright day to speed it up a little. Point is, she has to go out of her way to adjust to seeing in the dark.

Then we get inside, get on a ride, and someone takes a flash picture. And she can't see for the rest of the ride. Last trip, on It's a Small World, someone was using the light on their video camera, and she nicely explained to them why it was ruining her experience. They looked at her like she was lying, but did turn the light off.

Honestly, she should not have to ask, beg or explain when it's common courtesy, as well as the instructions on many rides.

Yep. I'm getting better, but that's how I was for quite a few years. Dang Lasik (it caused my problem). Flashes still *hurt*, though, even though my eyes are recovering faster from light/dark or dark/light.

for your friend, just in case it ever comes up, I would *not* recommend sitting at a waterside table in Blue Bayou. It's so dark in that area, but if you turn your head as the door opens you can be blinded, and then the fun of sitting waterside is lost until your eyes recover.

 

[Rhonna]

for your friend, just in case it ever comes up, I would *not* recommend sitting at a waterside table in Blue Bayou. It's so dark in that area, but if you turn your head as the door opens you can be blinded, and then the fun of sitting waterside is lost until your eyes recover.

We actually were sitting waterside at BB once when someone in a boat took a flash photo of BB. I was looking toward the bayou scene so I got the full flash head on. Blinded me for awhile and I don't have extreme light sensitivity. I can't believe the picture would turn out any good?

 

[DaveNinja]

with most rides there are already better taped versions on youtube than what your going to be able to get (unless you have really fancy equipment).

I did record some Peter Pan, with my little Flip Video camera, on our last trip after the ride got stuck and they had to manually reset it and the lights came on.

 

[todzwife]

I have always wondered if the reason on soarin and TOT is because they don't want you to drop your camera and have it smack someone in the face...

Anyone know for sure if a "hooked on" camera like the gopro would be allowed?

 

[traylorc]

No, I will take pictures (as they are not saying pictures are not allowed), but without the flash or video lighting. It is not only rude to use the flash or video lighting during the dark rides, it also causes the pictures to not come out properly.

Exactly....if you have "fast" glass and a camera with high ISO capabilities, it is possible to take pictures on dark rides without using the flash and without ruining the experience for others.

Most individuals do not possess a camera which allows them to take properly exposed pictures in low light situations...that is why these individuals must resort to using their flash. The flash essentially overpowers the ambient lighting inside the ride and the resulting pictures look horrible...I mean absolutely awful.

So in the end, using the flash on dark rides produces terrible pictures and you ruin the ride for others...it's not worth it folks.

 

[Kittyskyfish]

Exactly....if you have "fast" glass and a camera with high ISO capabilities, it is possible to take pictures on dark rides without using the flash and without ruining the experience for others.

Most individuals do not possess a camera which allows them to take properly exposed pictures in low light situations...that is why these individuals must resort to using their flash. The flash essentially overpowers the ambient lighting inside the ride and the resulting pictures look horrible...I mean absolutely awful.

So in the end, using the flash on dark rides produces terrible pictures and you ruin the ride for others...it's not worth it folks.

The other sad truth is they don't know how to use their cameras. I had a woman with a high-end Nikon DSLR with a great lens sit behind me at POTC and she kept using her hotshoe flash unit throughout the entire ride. DH, I, and another rider kept asking her to stop using the flash but she wouldn't because (as she put it), "The pictures turn out bad".