Said It Here

Why are my disposable camera pictures coming out dark or black?

Disposable cameras have very weak indoor flashes and a tiny fixed aperture that requires direct, bright light to expose the film properly. Guests frequently forget to flip or click the flash on in dim or evening settings, resulting in entirely blank, black rolls of film that ruin the memories you hoped to capture.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    reminding guests table-to-table to keep the flash on
  2. 2
    using cameras where the flash stays on automatically unless manually turned off
  3. 3
    leaving a note on the camera about using the flash

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.

TELL YOUR GUESTS TO USE THE FLASH!!!! mine didn’t and we have 5 cameras worth of nothing 🙃source ↗

rhinemaidens · r/weddingplanning · 108 upvotes

Yeah I wish we'd known this!! We got a bunch back that were literally just nothing.source ↗

badedum · r/weddingplanning · 10 upvotes

Where this came up

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