silly question, but how much does this PhotoPass cost. i'm new to this.
PhotoPass is an entire system of roving photographers in the Disney theme parks, water parks, and a few places in the resorts and Downtown Disney.
PhotoPass photographers will take your pic for free, then give you a card with a barcode on it; this card functions as an identifier for you and your pics. Every time you have a pic taken by a PhotoPass photographer, the photographer will scan your card, thus associating the pics with that card. You can scan as many pics with a card as you like.
To view the pics you can either go to a PhotoPass viewing station (there are several located in the parks, Downtown Disney, and at the Grand Floridian), or view them online when you get home.
Here's the complicated part - to view your pics online, first you must create a free account on
www.disneyphotopass.com. Then you enter the numbers of however many PhotoPass cards you have (it's best for each person in your party to have one in case you split up while touring). Entering a card number into an account "claims" all the pics associated with that card, and you can then view them.
Once you've claimed your pics, you can also crop them, add borders and graphics to them (such as the logos you see on some of the examples in this thread "Epcot 2007" that sort of thing), and purchase products made from the pics.
Products available include individual prints in 3x5, 5x7, and 8x10 sizes (IMHO these are WAY overpriced!), professionally printed albums, greeting cards, photo DVDs, and the most popular product - photo CDs.
PhotoPass photo CDs are simply a dump of all the pics in your PhotoPass account, including all of the cards you entered, plus all of the copies you made with borders and graphics, at the full resolution recorded by the digital SLR cameras that the PhotoPass photographers use (Nikon D70s, mainly). Basically, these pics are all 6 megapixels or better.
A PhotoPass CD will generally only hold 300 pics, but if your account has more than 300 pics in it, they will be split onto multiple CDs at no extra charge.
The photo CD also includes a legal release granting you full rights to print and use the photos any way you choose, excepting commercial applications. The main reason for buying a PhotoPass CD is to take the pics from it to cheap printing places like Snapfish or
WalMart to have them all printed. You can also email the files to Aunt Marge in Boise if you want, print them at home, Photoshop the daylights out of them, or whatever you want to do (for personal use only) - because you OWN the pics.
The PhotoPass CD is $125, but you can pre-order it for only $99.