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Your photographer shoots the wedding.
Your guests shoot the rest of it

Ten shots each is not a limitation we forgot to remove. It's why people aim.

A disposable camera for the whole evening. Your guests scan a code and shoot on the phone they already have. No app, no account.

$19 for 50 guests, $39 for 100. That is a thousand frames, under four cents each.

Create the film
35 mm 1:2.8 compact.cam ten shots
$19up to 50 guests$39up to 100 guests1,000 frames · 3.9¢ each

A film for your wedding, party or team night

$19500 frames

Up to 50 guests, 60 with the spare room. No account, no app. Full refund before it develops if nobody has taken a photo. Album kept 30 days after it develops.

Choose how the film looks

One look applies to every shot in the film. Drag the slider to see it on a frame.

Drag to compare. A stand-in frame, not from a compact.cam film.

Tomorrow nobody sends you the photos

Your guests are shooting anyway. Those shots stay on their phones, go into stories, and scroll away in the chat. What reaches you is whatever someone remembered to send.

How an evening becomes a film

  1. Guests joined47Link · QR · card ready

    Create the film

    Name it and pick the hour it develops. You get a link, a QR code and a card you can print for the table.

  2. Shots left09Nobody sees it yet

    Guests scan and shoot

    One tap opens the camera they already know. The shot is gone the moment they take it. They see how many are left, nothing else.

  3. Develops at9:00Album open · 412 frames

    It develops

    At the hour you set, or the moment you press the button. The album opens for everyone at once.

Why the waiting is the point

Shared albums fill up with the same five poses, because everyone can see what everyone else already posted. A closed film doesn't. Your guests shoot what they actually see, and the evening arrives all at once, from two hundred angles.

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Every frame is already taken. At the hour you picked they open all at once.Stand-in frames by Evgeniy Smersh, Jack, Jessica Christian and Nereid Ndreu on Unsplash, not from a compact.cam film.

What you get after it develops

  • The album in the order the evening happened.
  • Everything as one archive, saved at up to 2400 px on the long side. One link, one download, kept for 30 days after the film develops.
  • A printable card with your QR code for the table or the entrance.

Price by the size of the wedding

$19up to 50 guests500 frames
$39up to 100 guests1,000 frames
$59up to 150 guests1,500 frames
$79up to 200 guests2,000 frames

Between two plans? Take the bigger one. A full film stops letting people in, and the door is the worst place to find that out.

Guests per film, counted in frames at ten shots a guest. Every film lets in up to 20% more guests than its plan, at most 20 more, so 60 on the first plan and 220 on the last. The spare room is for guests, not for frames: everyone still gets ten shots. If more turn up, you move the film up a plan and pay only the difference, $20 for each step. Your album is kept for 30 days after the film develops. One payment per plan, no subscription. Prices are in US dollars before tax. Creem, our payment provider, takes the payment on its checkout page and adds the tax there. Full refund before the film develops, if nobody has taken a photo. See the Refund Policy.

At a hundred guests a wedding photographer runs about $2,700, and 87% of couples hire one. A photo booth is another $886 at the median. The wedding is already paid for. This is the part of it nobody was standing in front of, and it costs $39.

And a disposable camera works out at more than a dollar a frame once you have paid to develop it. Here a frame costs under four cents.

Questions people actually ask

01Does my guest need to install anything?
No. The link opens in the browser they already have, on iPhone and on Android, and the shot is taken with the phone's own camera.
02Can they see the photos during the wedding?
No. Not other people's, not their own. Until the film develops there is nothing to look at. That is the whole product.
03Can I open it earlier than planned?
Yes. The host panel has a Develop now button.
04How long is the album kept?
30 days after the film develops. Download the archive before then: after that the film is deleted and we keep no copy.

Create the film, print the card, put it on the table

Create the film