I have a number of friends both abroad and at other ends of the country and wanted to share photos of my little girl – She’s only 1 and I’ve turned into one of those irritating friends that doesn’t stop talking about their children.
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Advantages: Quick and innovative service, good offers Disadvantages: expensive for developing a few prints
I have a number of friends both abroad and at other ends of the country and wanted to share photos of my little girl – She’s only 1 and I’ve turned into one of those irritating friends that doesn’t stop talking about their children.
Digital Cameras haven’t really amazed me just yet so I went ahead and bought a scanner. The process of scanning in already developed prints was time consuming but worthwhile, ... ...your films on-line for free but charges you for the printing of any photos. A pretty simple concept, however the execution is really inspiring. I recently joined and promptly received my introduction pack, including a selection of pre-paid envelopes in which to return my 35mm or APS films for developing.
The opportunity to use the service arose after my Daughter’s first birthday when I went through a complete roll in the first ... more
I have a number of friends both abroad and at other ends of the country and wanted to share photos of my little girl – She’s only 1 and I’ve turned into one of those irritating friends that doesn’t stop talking about their children.
Digital Cameras haven’t really amazed me just yet so I went ahead and bought a scanner. The process of scanning in already developed prints was time consuming but worthwhile, then I heard about Fotango.
Fotango develops your films on-line for free but charges you for the printing of any photos. A pretty simple concept, however the execution is really inspiring. I recently joined and promptly received my introduction pack, including a selection of pre-paid envelopes in which to return my 35mm or APS films for developing.
The opportunity to use the service arose after my Daughter’s first birthday when I went through a complete roll in the first hour of here party. The following day (Friday) I popped the film in the pre-paid envelope and sent it off to Fotango. On Monday I received an e-mail with a link to my personalised web page with the developed photos. Within minutes I was sending these pictures to friends and family as well as building some cute e-cards for the Grand parents.
I received a number of free prints as part of my registration incentive and once a few friends had seen the pics they also joined Fotango, providing me with additional free prints. All in all I ordered 11 free prints and only paid for the delivery.
There are loads of other value-added services on the site, including photo mouse mats and being able to preview frames for your photos. I’m sure I’ll be making the most of these services in the future.
Since I’m no great photographer I often get a few wasted photographs on every developed film and this service allows me to preview the photos before I buy them. While the cost of printing the films after they’ve been developed is slightly more expensive than normal the over all deal is quite competitive.
I would whole-heartedly recommend the service.
UPDATE******************************* It looks like the free on-line development offer has now finished. To get you're phots develop and published on-line you need to order a complete printed set .
To be honest I'll still use the service since it saves me time having to scan in the photos afterwards.
Advantages: Quick service, many options online Disadvantages: not experienced any (yet)
I found Fotango from a link on Ciao's homepage. A day after signing up I received a package with two film envelopes and a voucher worth up to £6.49 for processing. I popped into one of the envelopes a disposable camera I had been meaning to have developed for ages. I posted this on Friday and by Tuesday morning I received my photographs, 24 of them sized 7" x 5". The same day I received an e-mail telling me my photo's where online.
Once logged into ... ...into albums and give them captions. Other facilities included being able to e-mail a photo, or even an album of photo's, to a friend or turn them into e-greetings. The e-greeting option was fun, you can add things to your photo's like speech bubbles, objects and backgrounds and then write your message. You get the chance to preview your e-greeting before sending so that you can go back and change it if you are not happy with the result.
You can ...
stonea 03.05.2001
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Advantages: cheap, quick, online photo albums Disadvantages: full scale of services are not immediately obvious
I first came across Fotango through an affiliates scheme from either Tradedoubler or Commission Junction (I don't remember which), which of course puts me in mind of another opinion or two to be written!!! They approached me as a potential user of their shopping cart service before I ever used them to process photographs.
I have a website (www.thedrawingroom.org) where people can request pictures to be drawn. As I provide this service for free, ... ...Fotango service has provided that opportunity. The service is known as 'print button'. You give them access to your ftp account, and upload hi-res versions of your pictures. They can then produce and sell your images on a variety of products; t-shirts, mousemats, mugs etc. You set the sale price somewhere above the base price of the product, and split the profit with Fotango.
I can't say I've made my millions through this, but give it time! It is ...
faithbuck 08.10.2001
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Advantages: Fast service, Share your photos with friends easily, in their email, then they can purchase prints for themselves, Loads of extras to play with, some great gift ideas Disadvantages: May need to "rotate" images for them to print correctly, Any photos which you link to have an add on them
...your photos on your site, Fotango.com will supply you with a link to your photo, which you just copy and paste into your web page. They even have a list of your links, located in the public photos section, where you can also view the photos which you are sharing in the public gallery). The down-side to this, is that recently you get "www.fotango.com" across the bottom of your picture. When you add a site which is easily navigated, well designed, ... ...Recived an e-mail from fotango.com recently informing me of new features on the site. These are:
Cropping
When you have a picture which requires cropping to be printed, you can choose how the picture will be cropped. Simply click on “select cropping” in your basket where a picture requires cropping. This will bring uo a window with several icons icons; these are left, centre, shrink to fit, right or top, middle, shrink to fit, bottom depending ...
WallaceSP 21.08.2001 (11.09.2001)
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Advantages: UK Based!!, Digital Photo Upload Service!!, Wide Range Of Photo Gifts!! Disadvantages: None!!
...know was that services like Fotango.com existed.... With Fotango.com, you can send in normal photo films or disposable cameras, to have them printed and sent back to you. Alternatively if you own a digital camera, you can have your photos uploaded to the web and printed onto Kodak paper. Then Fotango will send you your photos in regular "snail" mail. Their prices are relatively inexpensive and their service seems good. Just for joining I received ... ...have just unfortunately realised expired, unused, today. Everyone has a favourite photo which is really cute or so damn ugly you want to show it off, and my favourite part of their service was their gifts that can be made from photos. You can have a special photo put into a fancy frame, made into a jigsaw puzzle or printed on a T-Shirt, mousemat, mug, candle, place mat or even onto some tasty chocolate!! The photo is printed directly onto the choco ...
chriswotton 03.09.2001
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Advantages: quick service, good quality photos Disadvantages: a bit expensive
i had never heard of fotango, untill i had signed up for ciao and followed a link on their homepage to their web site.
I signed up with fotango, which only took a few minutes, giving the usuall details(name,address,password, e-mail address)You can also when you have a film developed have your photos viewed online(handy if you want to show your friends/family)
Two days after i had signed up an envelope popped thru my door,with two pre-paid processing ... ...to be developed.
They develope any type of film and their prices are listed as:
glossy prints 35mm(6x4)+ online (27 exp) £3.99 (40 exp) £4.99
35mm(7x5)+ online (27 exp) £5.49 (40 exp) £6.49
APS(mixed format + online) (27 exp) £5.99 (40 exp) £6.99
Photo cd + online (27/40 exp) £6.49
Postage on all films is .85 pence.
As i had a 40 exp APS film, i sent this away with my voucher to be developed. Three days later i received an e-mail telling me ...
burnie 25.05.2001
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