Photopass questions

If I'm at Disney, would I be able to call my mom, give her my pass ID # and allow her to view some photos online awhile?

Not really to order but since we're going for 2 weeks, she could see some of our pictures of fun times awhile just to view...
 
absolutly giving my family the number saved me because a photo person put my card in his pocket and got them all confused and becuase they had the number i was able to still get the cd. i would put a sticker on yours so you know it doesnt get lost by a photo pass person. one more last tidbit costco does an awesome print job ono the pictures

any questions let me know

Kim
 
Califgirl said:
Hi, I'm lost. I'm a frequent visitor to Disneyland (which doesn't have photopass) but we are planning our first trip to WDW. What is photopass? How do you use it? Do they put your photos on the CD's and enhance them with the characters, are these from the photographers around the parks?
Can someone point me to where this is all explained? A link to a post or website would be very helpful!
Thanks :)

Photopass is this: Now the photos taken throughout the park are put onto a Photopass card and instead of having to buy the photos before you leave the park, you can buy them from the comfort of your home. You can put all your pictures on it. This feature is no extra charge. If you forget your photopass card in your room, you just get another one and now you have two Photopass cards and you can combine them to view them when you get home. The price for the photos is the same online as at the park.

THEN there is now a Photopass CD for $99 and it can fit up to 300 photos. Once you buy it you can take it home and print the photos where ever you want to. This is a great deal if you have ALOT of Photopass photos taken. For us it's not really worth it. Last trip we had 58 and many were duplicates and not that great. I ended up only buying 3 of them.

You can buy the Photopass CD at the end of your stay at Toontown, Epcot and GF. Or you can now buy it online from home but I don't have the link. If I find it, I'll post it here.

I hope this helps.
 

princess_disneymom said:
I have a couple questions regarding the photopass. I saw that people have asked for the Tink picture??? What is that? I also saw a pictue of a family just pointing to the ground and Stitch is coming up from the street... Do you have to specifically ask for these kinds of photos? If so what varities are there? We are going May 18th and I want as many photos as I can get...

Also, where do you get the photopass? We are going to WDW our first day..

Thanks,
any disney photographers that you see will most lke ly have the photopass camera. Definalety at all the park entrances and sometimes where the characters are located, not always though. Just ask the first photographer that you see for the photopass.
 
Here are some of our "special" ones:

MGM and Stitch
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MK and Tink
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AK and Simba
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A lot of my photopass pics are here
We had 2 different Stitch pics (ground & hat), Simba, a couple of Tinks and a whole lot of other pics taken during the week. The photopass photographer also took several pics of my nephew's band in the parade and put them on my card. IMO, the CD is a fantastic deal. My CD had about 250 pics on it (some were the modified images). I cant think of any other vacation where we have this many picrtutes of us together.
you can get the CD done at Epcot, the store in ToonTown and at the Grand Floridian's gift shop.
 
Here is the link that beattyfamily was speaking about to order the Photopass CD from home.... http://www.register123.com/event/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x177271abcd


Was wondering if anybody had purchased it this way rather than at the parks yet..... Thinking it would be easier and less time consuming to wait when we get home rather than standing in line and viewing at the park. I understand that you are not able to add borders are extras to the pictures from the CD so if you want that stuff added you need to do it at the park before having the photos burned to the CD. Looking for confirmation on that information as well.
 
Thought that I had this CD picture thingie all figured out but now am confused? :confused3 I thought that you could not get pictures added to the CD. :confused3 The borders and other things have to be done at WDW? If we have ride pictures, can these be added to the CD? :confused3 Guess I don't know as much as I thought!!! Any help would be appreciated!!! :wizard:
 
The CD you buy at the park will have all the original Photopass images in one folder. In another folder, there will be several modified images (cropped, borders, autogrpahs, etc).
The CD you buy online will only have the original images. I *think this includes holding characters since they posed you that way.
Neither CD includes the ride pics.
 
We just got back and we purchased the CD, I think that it is great, lots of people in line certainly didn't agree with the price.

I know you can buy the CD at the Camera Shop at the exit of Epcot, the Grand Floridian Hotel and then at the camera place in Toon Town at MK...I swear he mentioned that you could do it too at the scrapbooking store at DD.

Just a little hint...we had about 120 pictures taken in four days at WDW...it takes time to add the enhancements that you want, so make sure you give yourself time!! Do NOT wait till the park is closing on your last day to go in and do it. I went in at about 7 and waited in line for a good hour to get help (and there were only 3 people in front of me) and then by the time I left the line was almost out the door...those people were going to be waiting a LONG time!

You can go in throughout your trip and do the enhancements so then the day that you make the disk you can quickly go in do the enhancements on your last pics and be out...that is what we did...helped out a lot.
 
I noticed that the website for the PhotoPass said this:

"Note that images that have been purged from our database will not be included on your CD and that photo processing is not included with purchase. "

Does this mean that the enhanced pix like Tink in your hands, gets removed? So now I'm sitting here with an empty hand? I'm so confused on this PhotoPass thing!
 
disneyinmay said:
I noticed that the website for the PhotoPass said this:

"Note that images that have been purged from our database will not be included on your CD and that photo processing is not included with purchase. "

Does this mean that the enhanced pix like Tink in your hands, gets removed? So now I'm sitting here with an empty hand? I'm so confused on this PhotoPass thing!

I think what they mean is the Photopass pictures are only available for a limited time so if you wait too long, they will get purged from their database so then they cannot be included on the CD.
 
I too am interested in where one would get the cd's of the photopass pictures. I loved using the photopass for our honeymoon in Oct '05. It was great being able to get both of us in a picture of some of the "special spots" We will be there in two weeks and want to get some more pics, they seem to change frequently. We got one in Animal Kingdom with Simba in it.

Does the pass expire? I can't imagine getting 300 pictures in one trip? Just curious.

Thanks for any info!!! :eeyore:
 
We're going for 2 weeks and I'm going to stalk the photographers to get a full disk. (hehe)
 
Ok, help me out! I have heard some people having some 500 pictures taken. If a cd holds approx 300 pictures, do you get 2 cd's for the same price? 4 cd's with the borders? $100.00? Help!
 
I just want to share a little of my experience....

You can NOT NOT NOT get a CD from a photopass card at Exposition Hall in MK (nobody here has said you can, I just want to make that clear since we were told you could by SEVERAL people)...............as already stated CDs from photopasses can be burned at Toontown in MK, Epcot to the right of "the big ball" Spaceship Earth, and Mickey's Mercantile in Grand Floridian Hotel. We first went to Grand Floridian and they were nice but they only have one viewing screen so timing is everything......also communication with the technician is difficult because you are looking at the screen but they are behind it so the ones I was trying to buy hard copies of kept going away (he could bring them back up, but it was frustrating). A new location has been opened in Downtown Disney Marketplace but I don't know the exact location or the hours.

ALSO, and this may be obvious to everybody but me, the CDs from Photopass cards are only burned at locations the have the technology to view photos from all of the parks at once (you can ONLY view MK pics at Exposition Hall, BUT you can view all of the parks back in ToonTown in MK).

Part of what people are paying the $99 for is that you can then print them legally, make gifts, e-mail the pics, etc............I think people who think the $99 is a lot haven't thought things through...........For example, your first 5X7 print is $12.95 and your additional ones (at the same time) are $9.95 (this is at the parks, I don't think you get the price breaks online but I could be wrong)...........so if you are going to buy 9 pics down there, you are better off getting the CD burned so the pics are more useable......i.e. Mother's Day gifts, birthdays, combine several photopass cards so the whole extended family can end up with a complete CD of all the areas the gang ran off to. (Granted if you print them, you pay for paper, ink, and time so that comes into play, I am just dumping out my thoughts).

A different area and I will then shut my fingers up........FROM HERE DOWN, THIS IS ABOUT MEMORY STICKS AND MEMORY CARDS NOT PHOTOPASS........In ExpoHall in MK, there are two different ways to get CDs from your memory card........one way is using two self-service machines..........the advantage to those machines is that you can get thumbnail prints of your memory media, you can choose what pics you want to copy and which ones not to copy, you can modify your pics (eliminate red eye and stuff like that).....the disadvantage of those machines is that they will only put about 100 to 120 pics on a CD and they take FOREVER. Also, if there are ANY movies anywhere on the memory, the Kodak machines will not work at all. The other method of getting CDs from your memory card is for a Disney Castmember to burn it for you (as opposed to a Kodak employee--but you can't tell them apart unless you ask)...........The advantage to this method is the speed and the fact that you can get 702 MB on each CD. The disadvantage to this method is no thumbnails, no picking and choosing which pics (all or nothing), and no modifications to pics.

Both methods are $11.99 per CD ($12.77 with tax I think)........NEITHER METHOD will erase your card!! It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to clear off your personal memory card and Disney and Kodak would be crazy to accept that liability so they do NOT erase the card...............READ THE DIRECTIONS FOR YOUR CAMERA BEFORE YOU GO so you can find the "delete all" button or whatever it is............I witnessed somebody having a hateful hissy fit about this today and it was all I could do not to walk up and say, "Does being ugly to these people busting their tails for minimum wage enhance your anatomy or something?".........I was just grateful that it wasn't anybody in my family showing their tails for once. :rotfl:

The moral of this story is 1 gig of memory for a Disney trip just isn't enough :rotfl2:

And I totally agree with the person who said DO NOT WAIT until the last night--too much can go wrong.

WOW--guess this all touched a nerve with me..........sorry for the long read. Hope you find something useful in here.

Grits
 
Here's our Simba picture:

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I'm glad that they have the CD now. You can pay a small fortune for individual photos.

I'm hoping that there will be a lot of Photopass photographers at MNSSHP.
 
no unfortunitly you can not get the pics from the attractions on the disk yet they say they are working on it though
 














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