GoPro users... Please disable your red recording lights !

[drdisney]

Just came back from an amazing time at Disney World. While I enjoyed all the rides I went on, I couldn't help but notice more and more guests are using their GoPro's to record their experiences. While I don't mind the recording themselves, I get frustrated when I see the red blinking light on Space Mountain or TOT. It ruins the effect of the attraction, and overall is bad show for the other guests who want to enjoy the attraction it it's natural splendor. I own a GoPro myself and find it very easy to disable the light and still be able to record the show or attraction. So for everyone sakes, lets turn off the lights !!

Dr D

 

[DVCkidsMOM]

Well about half the time DH doesn't record what he thinks he is recording. We are new to GoPro, so don't know it well. It might have been easy for you but I doubt it will be easy to us. Can you tell us how to disable a recording light?

 

[Goddesstree]

Well about half the time DH doesn't record what he thinks he is recording. We are new to GoPro, so don't know it well. It might have been easy for you but I doubt it will be easy to us. Can you tell us how to disable a recording light?

I would guess that you could google 'disable red gopro recording light' and get an answer?

Between camera flashes, holding up an ipad, and now the gopro fad, it seems like people are forgetting some common courtesy considerations. We have had people ruin just about every attraction at WDW over the past few years with the desire to record every minute of every experience, to heck with the people behind and around them. It makes me sad that we can't all just be there and enjoy the moment as it is happening.

 

[allysetraskos]

I'm old school a little bit of electrical tape and problem solved lol

 

[DVCcurious]

Here's what I don't get: there's like a hundred videos of every single ride available on Youtube.

Those videographers have more recording skills than I ever will. Why don't people just NOT record any rides at all and just go to YouTube and watch the rides when they're at home?

I don't understand why people need to record something that's readily available for you at home.

 

[minnie mum]

Here's what I don't get: there's like a hundred videos of every single ride available on Youtube.

Those videographers have more recording skills than I ever will. Why don't people just NOT record any rides at all and just go to YouTube and watch the rides when they're at home?

I don't understand why people need to record something that's readily available for you at home.

There you go talking common sense. What kind if Diser are you anyway?

 

[GotLabradors]

I don't understand why everyone wants to film every experience. You spend so much time worrying about the filming that you don't really get to live in the moment and experience the actual show/ride you're so intent on filming.

 

[Shaden]

I get more annoyed by the people who are video taping wishes with the flash/light on ...

Ugh.

 

[kerplop]

I get more annoyed by the people who are video taping wishes with the flash/light on ...

Ugh.

Last week at Fantasmic the lady in front of us recorded the entirety of the show on her huge iPad with the brightness all the way up. It drove me crazy because it lit up half the row.

 

[GotLabradors]

Last week at Fantasmic the lady in front of us recorded the entirety of the show on her huge iPad with the brightness all the way up. It drove me crazy because it lit up half the row.

I think I would have had to keep leaning over to her and talking to her just to ruin the recording. But then again, I can just be immature like that.

 

[kerplop]

I think I would have had to keep leaning over to her and talking to her just to ruin the recording. But then again, I can just be immature like that.

LOL that's so deliciously evil. As it was we both got colds on our trip and coughed a lot, so there's probably quite a bit of that on there too

 

[FelisLachesis]

I think I would have had to keep leaning over to her and talking to her just to ruin the recording. But then again, I can just be immature like that.

I'd be taking with my GF and the DDs, making sure they had pads and/or suppositories that they may need, the DSs may need prophylactics if they wander off, so I'll ask them if they need any. One person has a skin rash that needs to be taken care of when we return home, so that's a topic of conversation

... All just loud enough to get into her recording.

 

[summerw]

The 20 something I was standing next to last night was editing video of the fireworks while they were going off. SO I was hearing the soundtrack from 20 seconds ago over the current one. Î wanted to say something but I was with ds5. I did say something once to these kids on soarin who had their arms out to fly in front of my face. He tried to tell me it was only in front of himself. Then I wouldn't have said anything, would I have?

Maybe you could offer people in line help in turning it off? My dad has one and he's clueless.

 

[Ariel Wanna-be]

I would guess that you could google 'disable red gopro recording light' and get an answer?

Between camera flashes, holding up an ipad, and now the gopro fad, it seems like people are forgetting some common courtesy considerations. We have had people ruin just about every attraction at WDW over the past few years with the desire to record every minute of every experience, to heck with the people behind and around them. It makes me sad that we can't all just be there and enjoy the moment as it is happening.

This. This this this this this thisthisthisthis.

I am SO tired of watching Fantasmic through someone's giant iPad or someone's camcorder screen. It's bad enough that they hold their dinner-plate-sized recorder waaaay up high to be sure THEY get a good recording (and block the view of the people behind them), but on top of that, the stupid thing glows like its radioactive and ruins the experience.

And I'm amazed at the people who look around like "whaaat?" when someone calls them out for it, as if they didn't know they were being rude. If you're that clueless, then you need to be called on it.

There are times/places/ways to use these devices that won't interfere with someone else's enjoyment.

I'd pay extra for a "sorry-but-you-can't-demonstrate-your-rudeness-by-using-your-distracting-recording-device-today" day in the parks. I'm not kidding.

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[PSUGuy]

I don't understand why everyone wants to film every experience. You spend so much time worrying about the filming that you don't really get to live in the moment and experience the actual show/ride you're so intent on filming.

In 2004 I treated the whole family to a WDW vacation during which we all rode Splash Mtn, I rode in the rear and videoed the whole ride. That footage is among our most cherished possessions, capturing the interactions of my family from my then 78 yr old mom to our first grandchild. A generic video of someone else's ride just doesn't measure up.

Bill From PA

 

[Hokie2000]

In 2004 I treated the whole family to a WDW vacation during which we all rode Splash Mtn, I rode in the rear and videoed the whole ride. That footage is among our most cherished possessions, capturing the interactions of my family from my then 78 yr old mom to our first grandchild. A generic video of someone else's ride just doesn't measure up.

Bill From PA

Well that's different - you were in a boat with your whole family, right? So there was no one else in the boat to inconvenience. Recording video is not the problem, it's the way people go about it.

When people are just recording the ride itself, not their family, then I agree with pp that there's no point to it. And it can get really annoying for everyone else, especially on dark rides and at nighttime shows. My husband had to deal with a lady turning around on POTC and taking flash pictures right in his face. Her family wasn't in our row - she was just taking pics of the attraction - pics that I'm sure turned out to be extreme close-ups of a stranger's progressively angrier face!

 

[Laketravis]

Well that's different - you were in a boat with your whole family, right? So there was no one else in the boat to inconvenience. Recording video is not the problem, it's the way people go about it.

When people are just recording the ride itself, not their family, then I agree with pp that there's no point to it. And it can get really annoying for everyone else, especially on dark rides and at nighttime shows. My husband had to deal with a lady turning around on POTC and taking flash pictures right in his face. Her family wasn't in our row - she was just taking pics of the attraction - pics that I'm sure turned out to be extreme close-ups of a stranger's progressively angrier face!

Agreed. It's not the act of recording or taking photos, per se, it's the lack of consideration for others.

We were having dinner at Narcoossee's one night last week at the same time a group of late-teen girls and their mother were having some sort of celebratory dinner at the table across from us.

Not only were their iPhones (all 6 of them) out in full force, they were constantly taking pictures and video. What was extremely annoying was that they would also have the flash on the entire time they were recording, causing us to feel like we were under several spotlights while trying to enjoy dinner.

"Ain't no privacy at all 'round here" .....Uncle Orville.

 

[Hokie2000]

Agreed. It's not the act of recording or taking photos, per se, it's the lack of consideration for others.

We were having dinner at Narcoossee's one night last week at the same time a group of late-teen girls and their mother were having some sort of celebratory dinner at the table across from us.

Not only were their iPhones (all 6 of them) out in full force, they were constantly taking pictures and video. What was extremely annoying was that they would also have the flash on the entire time they were recording, causing us to feel like we were under several spotlights while trying to enjoy dinner.

"Ain't no privacy at all 'round here" .....Uncle Orville.

Yikes!! I will never understand why multiple videos/pictures must be taken on multiple phones in the same group. It's a phone! Can't you use one and send the pics/video to everyone else instantaneously?? It's truly amazin' what those newfangled gadgets can do!

 

[nanlou]

I do wonder how their recording of Space Mountain turned out? I hope it captured the thrill of every dip and curve...

 

[freckles04]

We were at WDW a couple days before Maelstrom closed and, like everyone else, wanted to get our last ride. We were in the back row. The women in front of us were being loud and annoying which was disrespectful in its own right, but the woman in front of me kept trying to take pictures of THE DARK with her iPhone. She was turning around in her seat and the flash was right in my face and almost continuous. I finally said, "STOP using your flash! It's very RUDE!" I had to be loud to be heard over her friends and of course they laughed it off like I was the one with the problem. Our ride was completely ruined and with a 75 minute wait, we didn't try again.