LOL!

[DocFrankenstein]

Take a look at this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00068HMKM/qid=1111754876/sr=8-19/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i4_xgl23/103-8572759-7187823?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846
:lol::lol::lol::lol:

[dphotomania]

Some one did like it!! I wonder how his picture looks like.

Let me sell my 20d and get a few of these cameras.. Hehheee. :D

[mdaddyrabbit]

The last wedding I went to, at the reception there was one of these cameras at each table so if you wanted momentos you didnt have to worry about bringing a camera. Of course folks know that they are not the greatest quality but for free it is fun snapping photos.

[DSMITH131]

I used them at my wedding didnt pay as much

[intechpcx]

Actually this is a pretty cool concept that is becoming more and more popular. You leave them, as someone else mentioned, on the tables for the guests to use. At the weddings I've been at there's been a note with it asking the guests to snap away and leave the camera on the table so the Bride and Groom can get it developed. It's a cool way to get some candids that otherwise would have been missed. Sure a great majority of the pictures are pretty poor, but you'll find some captures that the pro-photographer misses because he's too busy getting the shots he has to get. It actually works out very cool.

[TSEE]

I've been to a wedding where they had these. From what I remember the pictures didn't come out all that great as some kids got a hold of the cameras and snapped away at the ceilings and table cloths etc.

[pradeep1]

I've seen these too. But for an investment of $40-80, you might be getting that one picture that will be priceless in the future, which the wedding photographer missed.

[R1 Kid]

Don't laugh too hard. I just got married in Feb '05 and we had about 12 cameras laid out on the tables. It was a lot of fun. The guests enjoyed taking the photos. Plus we got ALL kinds of pictures that the "professional" photographer didn't get. Which worked out even better because he took all the serious and some fun pics. But it allowed the guests to take crazy and at some tables wild candied shots. Granted they didn't turn out as well as the professional photographers did, but it was still a priceless investment.

[cmM]

you'd be stuck at ISO-800 all the time with that thing :D:D:D

[IndyJeff]

Actually this is a pretty cool concept that is becoming more and more popular. You leave them, as someone else mentioned, on the tables for the guests to use. At the weddings I've been at there's been a note with it asking the guests to snap away and leave the camera on the table so the Bride and Groom can get it developed. It's a cool way to get some candids that otherwise would have been missed. Sure a great majority of the pictures are pretty poor, but you'll find some captures that the pro-photographer misses because he's too busy getting the shots he has to get. It actually works out very cool.


When my wifes cousin got married in Chicago they had the camera on the table routine. About a year later another cousin got married and I talked with the first cousin and the topic of the cameras came up. It seems that one of his buddies, he was in a touring band at the time, took the camera in the bathroom and snapped off a pic of his crank. Seems the drug store and his new bride didn't think it was as funny as he and I did.

[mbze430]

This is becoming really popular at weddings. I think it's great. The pro can't get everyone's moment, when you have 20-30 tables full of guests. This allows individual tables to take candids for the bride and groom for all the moments they have missed.

[CoolToolGuy]

The first time I saw this was at a wedding my wife and I atrended. One on each table. We did the normal things - taking pictures of everyone at our table, and the Bride and Groom when they came by. After that, there were several shots left. The reception was at an opulent Engineering Society site that is in the heart of the city. I went outside and took several shots of the area - a plaza/park with fountains, trees, etc. - and a couple of the local street people sleeping on a park bench.

I hope they took it in the spirit of fun and something a little different.

Have Fun,

[Citizensmith]

They may not have the quality, but you also aren't going to break down sobbing when a drunk guest knocks his pint over your shiny new 20D.

These also seem popular at office parties. My company has had them on the table at christmas parties for at least the last 3 years.

[max101]

I'm just waiting for the digital equivalent of these ... to make it easier to share the photos after the office party :)
The problem is that processing all the shots on all the cameras does tend to produce a large number of ceiling photos.

[WPG]

yeah I had to shoot a wedding.
what i did was I got all the kids to go take a bunch of pictures of the bride and groom. then have them put them in a box near the door when they are finished.

besides my pictures that I took, I used theirs as a back drop collage on the wedding book I made.
about 75% of all the pictures were useable in some way. I was very surprised

[Claire]

I've heard about this and find the idea pretty cool. The main thing that springs to mind though is that apart from the cost of the cameras there is the development of film! That must cost a small fortune to have it all developed, or am I just stingy? :o

[Avalonthas]

Lol at the last wedding I was at, my family occupied 3 tables, and they didnt have any interest in taking photographs, so since i brought along my 300D, I gave the 3 disposables to my son, and he just kept them lol. Then I gave the bride/groom the 200 or so pics i took on a CD and they printed the ones they liked.

My son ended up trying to crack the disposables open to get the film but he was unsuccessful. Im not sure why, i think he ruined the films when he tryed to open it or the film is a diff format. I cant remember, long time ago, lots of booze, good times :p.

[skyphix]

Ive seen them at several parties and weddings we went to... for the money, its not a bad way to get good memories of everything.

[Jon]

This has been around for a number of years now. I got this example of them in use at my sister's wedding in '99, where we had them all around.