Wedding Cameras: Twenty Reasons to Go Digital vs. Disposable

“Disposable wedding cameras take disposable wedding pictures. None of our wedding memories are disposable! In fact, our digital wedding cameras gave us over 1000 wedding pictures that were far from disposable.” – Corina C, Bride (see Corina’s digital wedding camera pictures)

Video: Corina and Lincoln`s Experience With Digital Wedding Cameras

Summary: The twenty reasons: Easy Sharing, Save Money, No Risk, Free Pictures, More Pictures, Better Pictures, Fun Videos, Eco-Friendly, Preview Screens, More Elegant, Pictures Filtered, More Convenient, More Features, Social Networking, Are Unique, Fun Activities, Easy to Use, Fun Gifts, Easy Prints, Preview Screens

Read This If: You are thinking about disposable wedding cameras, getting pictures from your wedding reception, or getting candid pictures of your friends and family at your wedding.

Introduction

Disposable wedding cameras are tacky and have been old news for about twenty years. In addition to being out dated and in bad taste, here are the top twenty reasons brides and grooms all across the country are choosing to rent digital wedding cameras instead of purchasing disposables for their wedding:

Video: How to rent digital wedding cameras for your wedding

1. Easy Sharing

Disposable Cameras: You share your wedding photos by paying for duplicates and postage, and then mailing all of the photos out. This can easily take hours and cost hundreds of dollars.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You share your wedding photos by forwarding an email invitation to your wedding photo and video sharing website to your guest list. This takes fifteen seconds and costs zero dollars.

Video: How to Share the Wedding Pictures from Your Digital Wedding Cameras

2. Save Money

Disposable Cameras: You have to buy a lot of cameras, pay to develop all of the pictures, pay for duplicates and triplicates of all the pictures, and pay to mail all of the pictures to your guests. This costs $500 to $1,000 depending on how many disposable cameras you buy and how many prints you get developed.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You buy an all inclusive digital camera rental package. This costs $495 and includes your friends and family downloading and printing as many of your wedding photos from your photo sharing website as they would like.

Video: Christina`s Experience with Disposable Cameras

3. No Risk

Disposable Cameras: You risk spending hundreds of dollars on cameras and development costs, and then not getting any good wedding pictures while being thought of as tacky or cheap for providing tacky and cheap paper cameras.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You have a 100% money back guarantee to get great wedding pictures, the cameras are 100% damage insured, and providing your guests with digital cameras is the opposite of tacky.

4. Free Pictures

Disposable Cameras: You pay for every print even if they are of pictures of the floor or pictures of nothing.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You and anyone you invite to your wedding photo and video sharing website gets unlimited copies of all of your wedding pictures for free. You also get a CD in the mail containing everything from every digital wedding camera.

5. More Pictures
Disposable Cameras: You get twenty-seven photos per camera. This means that you have to buy a lot of disposable cameras.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You get over four hundred and fifty photos per camera. This means that one digital wedding camera takes as many pictures as seventeen disposable cameras.

6. Better Pictures

Disposable Cameras: You get disposable wedding pictures.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You get digital wedding pictures from high-quality 5.3 megapixel cameras.

7. Fun Videos

Disposable Cameras: You get zero videos. This means that you have to hire a videographer.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You can get up to fifteen minutes of video per camera, and can share them for free on your photo and video sharing website. This means that you can save $5,000 on a videographer.

8. Eco-Friendly

Disposable Cameras: You dispose of them and a lot of the photos. This means that a lot is wasted

Digital Wedding Cameras: You reuse everything and only print the best photos. This means that nothing is wasted.

Video: A Green Alternative to Disposable Cameras

9. Preview Screens

Disposable Cameras: You do not know what your wedding pictures look like until they are printed and you have paid for them. This means that you don’t know what you are getting.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You know what your wedding pictures look like immediately via the 2.5 inch preview screen on the cameras. This means that you know exactly what you are getting.

10. More Elegant

Disposable Cameras: You have tacky paper cameras on the tables at your wedding reception.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You give high-quality digital cameras to your guests to use throughout your entire wedding weekend.

11. Pictures Filtered

Disposable Cameras: You sort through the hundreds of prints, pick-out the good ones, and throw away the bad ones. This takes hours.

Digital Wedding Cameras: Your digital wedding camera rental company makes sure that no inappropriate or underdeveloped photos appear on your photo and video sharing website. This saves you hours.

12. More Convenient

Disposable Cameras: You drive to the store to buy them. Then you take them back to the store to get developed. Then you go back to pick up the prints. Then you physically mail the prints to your guests. This takes hours.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You order online. Then the cameras are delivered to you and you ship them back in a prepaid mailing case. Then you forward the email invite to your photo sharing and video sharing website to your guest list. This takes minutes.

Video: John`s Experience with Digital Wedding Cameras

13. More Features

Disposable Cameras: You get a flash if you are lucky. This means that you get bad photos unless the lighting happens to be perfect.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You get at least zoom, autofocus, video, preview screens, auto-flash, and black and white photos. This means that you get great photos is almost any situation.

14. Social Networking

Disposable Cameras: You have no easy way to share your wedding photos. This is lame.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You and your guests can view, download, print, share, and comment on all of your wedding pictures for free from your photo and video sharing website. This is awesome.

Video: How to Comment-On and Email Your Wedding Photos and Videos from Your Digital Wedding Cameras

15. Are Unique

Disposable Cameras: You will have just another wedding with those paper cameras on the tables at the reception.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You have the only wedding many of your guests will have ever been to that provides them with their own digital camera and unlimited wedding pictures and videos for free online.

16. Fun Activities

Disposable Cameras: You can try to take a few candid pictures of friends and family.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You can take a lot of pictures and videos before, during, and after the actual wedding, and also do all sort of fun things like virtual photo booths (i.e. set a camera up for folks to take fun photo booth like pictures for a fraction of the cost), photo guest books, photo/video scavenger hunts, video confessionals, picture competitions, pre-wedding and post-wedding documentaries, and caption contests.

Video: Karina`s Experience with Digital Wedding Cameras and Photo Guest Books

17. Easy to Use

Disposable Cameras: You turn the flash on (if one exits) and advance the camera each time you take a picture.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You point and shoot. If you have any questions, just look at the attached instruction card.

18. Fun Gifts

Disposable Cameras: You get prints developed at your local drug store.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You have prints delivered to you, and can make enlargements, metallic prints, cards, calendars, collages, books, t-shirts, puzzles, etc with your digital photos right from your wedding picture and video sharing website.

19. Easy Prints

Disposable Cameras: You take them to a store and then go back to the store to pick-up your prints.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You print them at your house for free or have prints delivered to you.

Video: How to Order Glossy Prints and Gifts from Your Website

20. Cheap Prints

Disposable Cameras: You pay for your prints and pay for all of the prints for all of your guests.

Digital Wedding Cameras: You pay nothing for digital prints. Neither do any of your guests. If guests want physical prints, they print them at home for free, or pay $0.19 each to have glossy prints delivered to them.

- Jonathan Bailor

PS You may also want to check out the handy Wedding Photography Quiz which helps you easily pick the best photography option for your wedding.

 

About the Author: Jonathan Bailor is the Managing Partner of the premier affordable wedding photography service CameraRenter.

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