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Is it better to get a new photo pass for each day? If so how will that show up on the CD? I would love to be able to keep the days separated. Also, am I able to transfer my images from my camera to the pass as well? ( I have a CF card on my camera)
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If you get a photopass for each day, all the pictures would not be on one CD. You would have to order a CD using each card. I've never transfer my pictures to photopass from my own camera, so I can't help you there. My best advice is to stick with one card and try to remember on which day you took pictures and where.
we had 4 photopass cards during our last trip. you load all of the numbers and it pulls up all the photos and you get the number of CDs it takes for your photos. we had 500+ photos and got 2 cd for the one price.
You can use one photopass for the entire vacation, or a new one each day. Whatever you choose, however, when you order the CD - if you only want to pay once, you upload all of them to one CD anyway. If you have multiple photopass cards, you add them all to your account. We had a couple from our last vacation which we just kept using. All pictures must be time coded as they came up in the order in which they were taken. We did however also write down the codes from the back of the cards, so that if lost we would still be able to access the pictures.
As for your own pictures. I haven't added mine yet (I am still working on them). You can upload the pictures to your account and then add borders to them and they too will come on the CD.
I'm not sure about transferring your own pictures (we never even thought of that) but I can say that it will be much easier if you have all your pictures on one photopass card. If you get a new card each day, the chance of losing those cards will be greater. Also, you will know when those pictures are taken because they are stored chronologically - I was somewhat worried about that and originally thought I should keep them separated, however after the pictures came in it was quite obvious by the clothes we were wearing to the time of day the pictures were taken and obviously by the park we were in.
One bit of advise, make sure you get a TON of pictures. I found some photographers were much better than others. I kept bugging my fiance to take pictures at the MK and I am so so so glad I did. A lot of the pictures with the Castle in the background are problematic for one reason or another. For some reason they could not get us in focus, their cameras must have been focused on the castle, but that means were were blurry in over half the MK shots. I wasn't too thrilled about that - but the other shots at the MK are absolutely magical! We would go down the row from photographer to photographer, and although we felt silly at the time I would do it again in a heart beat. Good luck with it!
Well adding my own photos to it after I get home doesn't help a whole lot. My concern is trying to figure out how to transfer my images from my memory card while I'm there. I can't buy tons of memory cards and I don't have a laptop to take so I can dump them there
Well adding my own photos to it after I get home doesn't help a whole lot. My concern is trying to figure out how to transfer my images from my memory card while I'm there. I can't buy tons of memory cards and I don't have a laptop to take so I can dump them there
I am fairly certain you can't transfer images from your camera to the photopass card while you are there. You can get your pictures printed onto a cd while you're there, but I would assume that would cost quite a bit. You could get a larger memory card that will hold more information. My fiance has a semi-professional camera (Nikon D70) and took hundreds of pictures in a large size (I know his pictures are taken at poster size) and he never ran out of room. Tonight when I speak with him I'll ask him what he uses for a memory card. Had we stayed there for another week he wouldn't have run out of room.
I'll try to get back to you tonight with that info.
When you get your Photopass card, take a Digital Picture of the numbers in case you lose the card. Disney can pull it up by number.
Ordering the CDs from home has the benefit of adding in boarders and signatures yourself. It was nice to do. I probably spent about 8 hours just messing around with the photos. I can not remember if we uploaded our own on the CD, but I am sure I did.
Have you checked Memeory Card prices at newegg.com? They have really cheap prices and sometimes free to $3 shipping. I think I just saw a 8GB SD (it was micro SD with the adapter) for $17. If you have a 9.1 Megapixel card, that is around 2455 pics.
I just bought a 4 gig memery card at Staples for $19.99. Thats pretty big. You can get as many photopasses as you want. When you order your cd you input all of your numbers and all of the pictures will be put into the same acount. You will get all of pictures on as many cds as it takes, our 631 pictures took 2 cds, but they will not be seperated into days. You cannot transfer you pics to your photopass cards. If you get the memories book you can add your own photos to it.
If you are concerned about filling up your memory card, you can burn your card to cd through out the parks. I know of one in MK and one inEpcot. Little go it yourself kiosks.
I would look into buying a memory card with a lot of space. We got one for our camera and took over 1600 pictures for a two week trip and never ran out of space. We would have probably taken a lot more if we had realized that it held that many pictures. I think we paid less than $20 for our card.
i spent $14 for a 2 g card and got about 500+ photos on it and the highest resolution. I have a 12 megapixel camera. you could burn cds in the park, they are about $12 ea.
You can have as many photopass cards and still have them all put on 1 cd order, for 1 cd price. At the time we went I didn't know that you can have your camera pics added to photopass cards...DO IT. You have a ton more enhancement options under photopass pics than if you upload them onto the site. Plus, you can only upload 160 pics max of your own photos. Don't forget to make all your enhancements under a 4x6 as well as, 5x7. If you have it down as a 5x7, when you print yourself as a 4x6, the border is cropped out. Also if you get a book (great value to preorder cd and book for 149.95!) make sure you use pics in 4x6 format. Hope it helps and have a great trip!
PhotoPass allows you to add an infinite number of photopass cards together and have the PhotoPass pictures (taken by PhotoPass photographers around WDW property) all gathered together into one account. Then you can add borders and other extras before ordering a PhotoPass CD to be mailed to you. (You can also purchase individual prints from your PhotoPass card while on property or from home afterwards.) The price of the PhotoPass CD does not, as far as I've ever heard, have any limit to the number of pictures you can include on the PhotoPass CD and they will send as many CDs as needed to capture all of your PhotoPass pictures.
Disney also offers another service where they will take your memory card from your camera and will burn a CD of your pictures -- thereby freeing up your memory card for more of your own pictures. There is a limit to how much data/pictures can be transferred to a CD before it's "full" and would require you to purchase an additional CD for this process.
The two things are unrelated and cannot be combined.
My Canon is a 10.1 meg. For now I only have the one 2GB card. I will look into a bigger one. When I'm in the mood, it's nothing for me to sit down and take at least 100 shots in one setting to get the "right" pic. I also do not like to delete "in camera" b/c you can't really see what your deleting. So I was worried that I would use it up in one day, lol. Thanks for all the ideas. I'll check on a BIG memory card.
Check out the sales in your office supply mailers -- I've seen 8GB cards for the price that 2GB cards used to go for...
The sales have been awesome lately!
Just make sure to check the maximum card size your camera is rated to hold. I have an old Canon that cannot take more than a 2GB card. (Which is why we'll be carrying my son's camera for the upcoming trip -- it can hold 4GB.
Eileen
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