Celebrity Constellation photo kiosk

bowlcoach · October 25, 2009

Below is a photo taken just last week of the new kiosks in the Constellation's photo gallery. Your seapass is scanned into the camera of the ships' photographers when you have your Welcome Aboard photo taken or a portrait during the cruise. This records your name and stateroom number to that photo. Any subsequent photos taken does NOT need your seapass because the photo processing now uses "facial recognition" to identify you. All subsequent photos of you are posted to your name and stateroom. Now you can insert your seapass into the kiosk and view all of your photos. It does not help you find them on the gallery wall, but it will give you an idea of what they look like so you can decide to locate them or not. After a couple of days I had to ask the photographers how it worked, because I knew I hadn't given them my seapass, yet the photos were showing up on the kiosk under my name. New technology - I'm really not sure of the value of this yet. My wife thinks in the future, we'll be able to view our photos in our stateroom on our TV's and order a copy right from there. My, how times change.

:excl: BIG BROTHER?

sailingrose · October 25, 2009

Interesting Mike. I hope it will help me find my pictures, I'm so bad at it.

lindasuelucas · October 30, 2009

what a big help it should be. thanks for the info.

Longboysfan · October 30, 2009

Nice way to see the pictures and less waste on printing them all up to be thrown out later.

rogue · October 30, 2009

I'll be trying it soon!

DebbieandJerry · October 31, 2009

Let's hope they are not printing them beforehand. It really upsets me that they print the photos and then ask you to toss out what you don't want. Why don't they just make the prices more reasonable? I'd pose and buy some if they weren't so expensive.

By the way: Mercury photos cheapest price STARTED at $14.95. Long gone were the $9.95! And, the one with me and Jerry and the captain really turned out nice. NOT FOR $24.95. Captain wasn't that good looking.

bowlcoach · October 31, 2009

Let's hope they are not printing them beforehand. It really upsets me that they print the photos and then ask you to toss out what you don't want. Why don't they just make the prices more reasonable? I'd pose and buy some if they weren't so expensive.
By the way: Mercury photos cheapest price STARTED at $14.95. Long gone were the $9.95! And, the one with me and Jerry and the captain really turned out nice. NOT FOR $24.95. Captain wasn't that good looking.

They DO print them, the same as always. All this kiosk system does apparently, is allow you to see them and maybe make a decision before you spend 10 minutes looking for it on the wall. There's still the same amount of waste.

The costs for photography is unreal. When we started cruising in 1980 the cost of the 5x7 was $3.95 and that included a frame!