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I’m on a tight budget for my wedding in can’t afford a professional to take wedding pictures. I need help with the kind of camera( disposal or film speed to use in a 35mm camera?
Low Cost Wedding
I’m on a tight budget for my wedding in can’t afford a professional to take wedding pictures. I need help with the kind of camera( disposal or film speed to use in a 35mm camera?
Low Cost Wedding
4 responses so far ↓
1 Antoniki // Jan 16, 2009 at 4:02 am
indoor use a 400iso film disposable
outdoors use a 100iso film disposable
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2 aidan402 // Jan 19, 2009 at 1:42 am
My daughter did this. For her ceremony, she asked her aunt to take pictures, and used her digital camera. At the reception, she put a disposable on every table, and got some wonderful pictures that her guests snapped. It was a lot of fun for them, and wasn’t really very expensive at all. Plus, she got a lot of pictures that a photographer normally wouldn’t get, because they are focused on the couple.
She got 35mm disposables, made by Kodak, called the Kodak HQ. They have a flash, were very easy to use, and took great pics.
3 la madre de quattro // Jan 20, 2009 at 11:20 am
I would rather, if I were you, buy a fairly good camera, such as a Nikon d40 is about $450, and have a family member take pictures for you and then keep the camera as a wedding gift to yourself. You will spend a fair amount of money on the cameras and developing pictures that you may not want. I could see doing this in addition to a photographer but not as the entire photography for a wedding. I would budget somethign else out in order for better pictures. After all, what it left when it is over, besides the pictures?
4 Ara57 // Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 am
I understand being on a budget. Please, please have a friend or relative with a decent non-disposable shoot the wedding, some formals, some couple shots, and the important stuff at the reception (cake cutting, garter toss, first dances etc etc) Then use the disposacams as you will, but have someone in charge of getting some real shots. The disposacams may have a few decent shots on them, and they may not. Kids get hold of them and shoot their ***** or themselves from 10 inches away. Folks don’t turn on the flash, so the pictures are too dark. They stand 40 feet away to take pictures, so the flash doesn’t reach. They put fingers in front of the lens or the flash. Often you will get 20 bad pictures of the cake cutting, and very little else. If you decide to use them, get good ones, not the cheap no-name kind. Get Kodak or Fuji and at least they will be loaded with decent film. Usually 400 or 800 speed, Fuji has one loaded with 1000 speed.
My suggestion is to ask all your guests (most of whom will probably use digital cameras) to take lots of pictures and make you a CD of the best ones. If they don’t know how, they can easily take their camera card to a photo lab and the staff will help them make a CD, That way you will have better pictures than the disposacam route at very little cost to you, just the printing. Good luck and best wishes on your wedding.
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