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cheap disposable cameras

  • 02-09-2011 12:42pm
    #1
    sionnaic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭


    Anyone know where I can buy approx 50 disposable / single-use cameras for a reasonable price?

    They don't have to be particularly pretty or wedding-y, I just want them to work and be affordable :D

    The few I've seen online have seemed dear enough, or at least dearer than I was expecting - but maybe that's just the going rate. in which case I won't be getting them.
    I may be totally unrealistic but I was hoping to find some in the range 2-3 euro per camera?


Comments

  • #2
    Beggared
    Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭Beggared


    They are never going to be cheaper than the cost of the film inside them. I don't really think 2 - 3 Euros will get you much. EBay maybe, but you might have customs issues with 50 items. It could be deemed a commercial import. One idea might be to get some with a very short expiry date on the films. They could be cheap enough.


  • #3
    Bride2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 294 ✭✭Bride2012


    I'm not sure if they would be that cheap and you'd need to get them developed too. I know of one wedding where after paying for the developing of 20 cameras very few photos were any good. What we are planning to do is setting up an online photo bank for free and giving everyone the web address and password so that they can upload any digital photos they have as most people have digital cameras or at least a camera phone. It's all free and we can print any good ones. Something like photobucket etc.


  • #4
    HairMonster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭HairMonster


    sionnaic wrote: »
    Anyone know where I can buy approx 50 disposable / single-use cameras for a reasonable price?
    For the cost, its not buying the camera thats the problem but getting them developed which will be more than the cameras.

    That might be worth it if you thought you'd get some decent photos, but in my experience you rarely get any worth using. For a start the quality of the lens in a disposable is very poor so you'll never get good quality. If they are for indoor use, the flash is usually not strong enough or washes out the subject.

    But even more to the point is the people using them! I've been to weddings with disposables on the tables, and people tend not to bother with them or to use them when they are drunk so you'll have lovely "arty" askew shots of blurry or headless people. One friend had to finish off most of the cameras herself the next day just to get them developed, and then all the photos were rubbish anyway.

    Almost everyone going to a wedding these days will have a digital camera, so they'll use that for most photos. You should ask everyone for copies of those. Bride2012's idea of photobucket or similar is a great idea.


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