Reply To: PASS

[cameraclicker]

Pass looks like $29 per event, per year.  So if you shoot a wedding a weekend from May through September and you want the photos up for more than a month, for 20 weddings you are looking at $580!  That’s a lot more than I pay for my web page, so I don’t think I will be joining PASS.

Printing details are sketchy:  “We’re working with WHCC to develop a beautiful print solution for those of you who use PASS to Shoot and Share with your clients. This feature is coming late Spring!”

I was a huge fan of slides and not really a fan of prints, so I am a big fan of viewing photos on computer screens.  My wife likes prints, so we have binders full, but only of the photos she is interested in.  The ones I like revolve in screen saver displays so we actually see those more.  I have a portfolio collection in my phone so those are available at a moment’s notice, it’s easier than carrying around a binder.

There are different business models.  The “print is the product” model is usually some mix of payment to take photos and payment for pictures on media.  Shoot to burn presumably front loads the cost so you pay for taking photos and if you want prints, you cross that bridge later.  Possibly someone else gets the printing profit.  As the photographer, you loose some control and non-photographers (and even some photographers) don’t understand 4X6, 5X7 and 8X10 are different shapes.  I like the idea of breaking it into the shooting part and the printing part because the customer can have flexibility, no one is tied into a large album and two small albums, and you can show friends and relatives around the world easily.

I still don’t think PASS is the answer.