Oh no! Not the Selfie-Sticks...

[FINFAN]

I see the stick as a photographic tool to get a certain type of shot that cannot be achieved in most cases without it. It places the camera in a spot it could not otherwise occupy and therefore creates an image of interest. While PhotoPass is great and I use it there are so many versions of essentially the same shot that it gets monotonous. Tools like sticks, wrist mounts, chest mounts, action cams and such provide us with different ways to capture the moment in a fun, exciting and interesting way.

Looks like Disney is fine with it. They just posted a video on Walt Disney World Facebook page promoting You Tube "Stars" creating videos. Lots of sticks used.

That ability to capture candid moments in a interesting and fun way is exactly why we love it. Clearly, we are not alone in appreciating this tool based on the claims here of how many are being used. Almost half of our photo pass images were less than stellar too...so I was really happy we had our own video to capture moments of our family together on our trip. Again, common courtesy and general consideration should be applied, to ALL forms of convenience in a public place.

 

[globamabob]

We were just at WDW about 2 weeks ago and saw 2 different people get whacked in the head. Hard! They can be dangerous if the user isn't paying attention to their surroundings.

 

[dad24]

We were just at WDW about 2 weeks ago and saw 2 different people get whacked in the head. Hard! They can be dangerous if the user isn't paying attention to their surroundings.

We were at WDW in October and I was whacked by strollers everyday. Hard. Strollers can be dangerous if the user isn't paying attention to their surroundings.

 

[fbb]

From an interesting article on this at http://www.returnofkings.com/39946/have-we-reached-peak-narcissism-with-the-selfie-stick:

There were words in that article?

Good heavens. Selfie sticks aren't the only things that could be dangerous on Splash Mountain.

 

[EPCOTatNight]

We were at WDW in October and I was whacked by strollers everyday. Hard. Strollers can be dangerous if the user isn't paying attention to their surroundings.

Perfect example of why we don't need additional distractions and dangers in the parks. We have enough of that already.

There were words in that article?

Good heavens. Selfie sticks aren't the only things that could be dangerous on Splash Mountain.

Not being the ONLY danger doesn't mean it isn't dangerous at all.

Also, can we use the correct term? It is a monopod. They are used for more than selfies.

 

[mom2rtk]

Also, can we use the correct term? It is a monopod. They are used for more than selfies.

To me, what makes the "selfie stick" different from a monopod is the ability to trigger the shutter from the lower part of the handle, meaning that it is intended to be used extended from the body. With a monopod, you still have to trip the shutter on the camera itself, requiring that it be held closer to the body.

 

[Robo]

Also, can we use the correct term? It is a monopod. They are used for more than selfies.

Sorry, but those are two different kinds of camera mounts.

Even the manufacturers of the devices call them "Selfie Sticks."

 

[JanaDee]

IMHO, we need to spend less time taking pictures and more time in the moment. No need to document the entire day to "remember the trip." If you experience the trip, you'll remember it....

This needs to be repeated.

 

[jmedrew]

I was just there last weekend and only saw 2 selfie sticks...they don't bother me at all. Now the man who was recording the Frozen Sing a Long show in front of me with his iPad sure did tho. Seriously? I always think, are ya gonna sit around and watch that later? Just enjoy it now!

 

[EPCOTatNight]

To me, what makes the "selfie stick" different from a monopod is the ability to trigger the shutter from the lower part of the handle, meaning that it is intended to be used extended from the body. With a monopod, you still have to trip the shutter on the camera itself, requiring that it be held closer to the body.

It's still a monopod. Just an evolved one. A selfie stick is an articulated monopod made for cellphone photographers.

Sorry, but those are two different kinds of camera mounts.

Even the manufacturers of the devices call them "Selfie Sticks."

"SOME" manufacturers call them selfie sticks. Some call them monopods. Some call them monopod selfie sticks. A quick google search showed me all 3 on the first page of results. Also, in 2015, you adapt to the cultural vernacular. If the people that want them call them selfie sticks, then I would too. Whatever helps me sell more of them. A monopod is a single legged support for a camera. Sounds like a "selfie stick" to me.

 

[ChimneyJim]

IMHO, we need to spend less time taking pictures and more time in the moment. No need to document the entire day to "remember the trip." If you experience the trip, you'll remember it....

This needs to be repeated.

Who spends more time in the moment? Me taking a few seconds grabbing a still shot or just letting video record or the person who jumps from one PhotoPass to another? We average around 75 PhotoPass shots over a week. We heard many take 300-400. I can't imagine spending that much time not in the moment for the standard Disney vacation background picture.

Some of my most cherished possessions are family videos from before I was born or my early years. My life would be less rich if all I had were what someone felt was important enough to tell me about. Even now that I have my own family we don't miss anything by having a camera around almost daily. I have deleted thousands of photos but sometimes you catch a gem that you will treasure the rest of your life. Memories fade.

 

[alvernon90]

I am a much better photographer than the vast majority of Photopass photographers, and would rather take the shot myself.

Wow, that is pretty amazing. You can balance a camera on the end of a stick, make guesses about where it is aiming, and still take better photos than people who are paid to do it all day, every day. Get down with your bad self! Take out that stick and go to town!

 

[alvernon90]

Looks like Disney is fine with it. They just posted a video on Walt Disney World Facebook page promoting You Tube "Stars" creating videos. Lots of sticks used.

UGH! So disappointing that Disney would embrace these "stars" who do nothing but point cameras at their own stupid faces and blather on and on while wandering past things that are far more interesting than they are. Obviously you can't stop people like that, but you don't have to encourage them!

 

[JanaDee]

Who spends more time in the moment? Me taking a few seconds grabbing a still shot or just letting video record or the person who jumps from one PhotoPass to another? We average around 75 PhotoPass shots over a week. We heard many take 300-400. I can't imagine spending that much time not in the moment for the standard Disney vacation background picture.

Some of my most cherished possessions are family videos from before I was born or my early years. My life would be less rich if all I had were what someone felt was important enough to tell me about. Even now that I have my own family we don't miss anything by having a camera around almost daily. I have deleted thousands of photos but sometimes you catch a gem that you will treasure the rest of your life. Memories fade.

I rarely take pics at Disney, less than 100 over the course of a week and maybe 15 or 20 Photopass. I prefer to experience the trip through my eyes, not the lens of a camera.

 

[klo1335]

I made myself feel really old because I had to Google what a "selfie stick" was That being said...I personally think they are stupid. To people who use them, I hope that you keep in consideration the smaller people around you. My mom tells the story about how we were at Disney when we were younger and people were still allowed to smoke all over the parks. Someone had a cigarette down at their side, wasn't paying any attention, and almost burned my younger sister. So even then people were clueless. It is okay to be in your moment but just have some common sense to the others around you.

 

[ChimneyJim]

I prefer to experience the trip through my eyes, not the lens of a camera.

That's the great thing about all these devices. You aren't looking through a lens. It's just capturing as you go. At least as far as a go pro or action cam is concerned. Now the teen with the iPhone mount that is probably a different story.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

the sooner they ban selfie sticks on moving rides, the better. There won't be anything they can do about them outside of the rides.

 

[Robo]

Now, WDW is in the sticks.

 

[tinkerpea]

Wow, that is pretty amazing. You can balance a camera on the end of a stick, make guesses about where it is aiming, and still take better photos than people who are paid to do it all day, every day. Get down with your bad self! Take out that stick and go to town!

You do realise that even though pp photographers are paid to take them all day that hardly any are actually photographers!? Most just have an interest In photography.
I've had so many god awful pictures.
That if you actually practice enough taking selfies and with the aid of a stick you can get some great shots.

 

[tinkerpea]

Personally I love watching back old home movies, I've been going to disney for 27years and every movie is a cherished possession!
My kids really enjoy watching their trip videos it brings back moments that you may other wise have forgotten about.
I diagnosed with an illness that means I have no idea of the time left with my family, but it will be much shorter then we would like,picture books and videos are all my children and husband will have left,so I'm going to make sure they have plenty of them,
If you don't want to fill your vacation time with taking pictures that is fine.
But it's perfectly ok and acceptable for me to do so.
I'm not vein because I take 100s of pictures also my family back home love to see what were up to on our trips and the quickest way to Share is on my phone so that's where my stick will come in, I don't want to spend all day asking strangers to snap a pic of me and what ever I'm taking at the time in the back ground,when it takes half the time to do it myself, Infact my stick even has a clever little hand held timer,and clicker with it that's not attached to the actual stick.
And I can use it without the stick too.