check out 43 seconds into the commercial/movie. Seems like Ellen’s “People” have photobooth strips pasted all over their office. Very cute commercial.

http://www.hineslab.com/
If you scroll down about half way on the above web site you will come to this link

http://www.hineslab.com/3dPhotoBooth.html

It is not exactly an item for sale, but it is unique in that he is selling a license.
…A photo booth developed by Steve Hines to produce a 3-dimensional color photo on large-format Polaroid film, and vend a souvenir photo frame with 3-D glasses. The booths are provided with 3-D camera, interior light, lighted sign, sample viewer, bill receptor, and a 3-D background which enhances the depth.

…The 3-D photo booths are ideal for theme parks, vacation areas, the beach, shopping malls, ball parks, etc. This is not a product for sale by HinesLab to end users, but rather 3-D technology being offered for license to photo-booth manufacturers.

One could easily take a remote control photo program and hook up two digital point and shoot cameras to it, download the two photos and have a program like photoshop create the blue/red interlaced photos.

Cool concept, but I don’t think it is that hard to do yourself.

http://photoscopes.net/content/sales.html

Who doesn’t like saving a bit of money and while this photobooth is certainly cool looking at $8000 it is close to double the cost of the fabulous ones we sell at www.rentphotobooths.com

If you are looking to buy a photobooth you have stumbled across the right web page. Photobooth sales our are specialty and we can do everything from a micro sized booth that takes up a mere 4×2′ floor space to some of the largest booths in the industry.  So when you want to buy a photobooth look no future than our sales tab.

http://www.thesuperbooth.com/

We’re proud to be the creators of the superbooth! A mobile photobooth that’s on the Nylon Magzine music tour. Check out some of the pictures above and then you can buy your own photobooth from us.

http://www.clearbags.com/

type in search term bookmarks and you’ll get four results. The bottom item described as

2 11/16″ x 8 1/4″ (bookmarks)
Hanging Soft Vinyl Sleeves
• Hanging Bookmark Sleeves
#HBM4

 are perfect for our 2×8″ photo strips and are relatively inexpensive at $18 for one hundred.

One of our clients, Johanna, gave us this great tip:  I’m going to put a black piece of paper in each one and cut the triangle off the top of half of them, and attach adhesive magnets to the back.  The other half, I’m attaching a little tag with string through the hole on the top. 

I ran across this great photobooth accessory:

http://www.shoplocal.com/dl-66135-digital-concepts-ac-adaptor-for-canon-s30-s40.fp

It says the Ac adapter is for Canon s30/s40 cameras but it works great with the canon power shot cameras as well.  In addition if you are good at electronics you could wire this up to power a hot shoe flash like the Canon 550ex or 580ex flash by using a quantum battery pack adapter for around $6 at www.keh.com.

Of course you can always get your photo booth rental from us if you find messing around with electronics to be a shocking experience.

Here’s one more photo booth rental web site that trys to link up vendors with people looking for photo booths on a nation wide level.

http://www.alltimefavorites.com/local/Interactive-Games/interact-games-Photo-Booths.htm

Just click on the above link and see what kind of great deals you can find? On second thought you’re already at the coolest photo booth rental web site, so why not just call us and get your photo booth taken care of?

http://www.magnetstreet.com/store/details/market/517/productId/14784

Well the link is above and while this particular photo booth magnet company promotes these as thank you cards, they are actually pretty cool layouts that we will soon be offering when we rent out our photo booths.  Photo booth rentals have never looked so gooooood. 

I found this unique photo-booth layout on this web site http://just-b-rit.blogspot.com/2006/10/chapter-fiftyone-photobooth.html Looks like a very cool idea for a party.

Wow what an inspring photobooth story. Go for your dreams, is the moral. Hope you like it too:

http://www.superherodesigns.com/journal/archives/000616.html

With a thousand ways to capture a moment, what has kept photo booths from extinction? Digital cameras and camera phones offer instant results, but only the curtained booth offers protection and solace from the outside world. Regardless of being situated in the most public of venues, the actual images are taken in an intimate arrangement. Kept company only by an adjustable seat, the subject is at the mercy of a timed flash. The situation reeks of vulnerability and yet the resulting images offer little more than a hint of the individual’s facade.

Early photo booths became popular after World War I. They produced tintypes, cheap images that were popular despite their rustic and antiquated appearance. In 1925, a Socialist Siberian immigrant took the process to a new level by introducing the “Photomaton.” Anatol Josepho’s machine produced eight photographs within eight minutes. The first booth was in his studio at Broadway and 51st Street in New York City. Within two years, a group of businessmen purchased the rights for the equivalent of $10 million in today’s currency, with the intent to establish 70 similar studios on the East Coast.
The first wave of machines had attendants standing by to ease participants through the process. Each strip followed the same arc - the subject looked straight, left, right, straight. As time went on, the assistants disappeared and the shots became more informal. During World War II, the pictures became a popular means of communication between estranged soldiers and their sweethearts. By the 1960s, the pictures extended their reach into the art world. For example, Andy Warhol enlarged the images of celebrities of the era and used the portraits in his artwork.

The introduction of the personal camera, particularly by Polaroid, challenged the photo booth’s stronghold on portrait shots. Although the number of old-school black and white booths has dwindled throughout the years, they can still be found in the most unusual of places. For example, the Paris metro line boasts over 600 booths. Modernized booths, offering a color strip of four with borders or as individual stickers, can be found in the food courts of malls across America.

Forget about sticker booths and machines that sketch your portrait while you wait. When you want a novel way to capture a night on the town, make sure to plot your route around a photo booth. Luckily, some of the best booths on the East Coast are just a hop, skip and jump away from campus.

7b
108 Avenue B. (at 7th)
NYC Bar, 21+

Appearances can be deceiving, but don’t let the corner of 7th Avenue and Avenue B trick you into thinking it’s a typical NYC bar. Like many of the bar’s attendants, 7b is simply a townie-bar stuck in the big city. Nestled among small mom-and-pop grocery shops and laundry mats, 7b lacks the glamour associated with the local scene. Fluorescent signs for different alcohol brands are perched haphazardly in the windows. The bar has more nicks than if the interior looks familiar, the feeling isn’t merely deja vu. 7b appeared in Crocodile Dundee, Scarface, and The Color of Money. The photo booth is located in the rear of the bar, beside a staircase. The back area is also used for discarded cardboard containers and trash bags so tread carefully. The machine has a 12 button display which lights up according to how much money is inserted. Since the slot accepts dollars instead of quarters, the lights turn on four at a time. Don’t let the shine distract you from settling into position before the first snap of the flash! The pictures print out within minutes, without any distortion. A strip of four is $3.

Otto’s Shrunken Head
538 E. 14th St. (Between Avenue A & B)
NYC Bar, 21+

For those who missed out on an island adventure over break, Otto’s promises a night of tiki-lounge pleasure. It’s a hidden treasure on 14th Street, blending in with the take-out joints and storefronts. The photo booth is located in a narrow hallway between the bar area and back room. The machine relies on tokens, which are available at the bar for $4. On some nights, the booth features a leopard print background and palm tree decal that will compliment your umbrella drinks. As you wait for your turn, waste some time at the “Big Buck Hunter II” game located beside the booth. The pictures print out quickly, but the second and fourth squares were either too light or too dark in comparison with the rest.

Taken

For those of you who liked to draw mustach’s on people in magazines and make funny remarks in your grade school books, this web site might be the perfect match for you. A wierd twist on the comic book story line in the form of a photo booth strip.

http://www.clogvert.com/photobooth-strips/ 

I’m seeing a growing trend of wedding photographers offering “photo booth” services. However, when I ask them about their photo booth I find out they don’t even own a photo booth and their photo booth service is nothing more than them hiring another photographer (or themselves) to shoot guests in front of a background. Hmmm, I guess their just using a trendy name for their services.  Wedding photographers are not the only group that are involved with this deception. I called an event photography place the other day and asked if they had a photobooth and they told me yes. However I latter learned that they did the same thing that many wedding photographers did.

 Sincerely, Rolland Elliott

Many people use photo booth rentals at their wedding reception to spice up the night life and give people something fun to do while giving them a party favor at the same time.  However with nothing to protect these precious memories they sometimes get folded up or ruined in other ways. Most photo booth rental companies do not put much thought into the presentation of their product. Here at rent photo booths.com we’d like you to know you now have the option to own the coolest party favor frames.  Constructed of scratch resistent acrylic custom made just for our photobooth business, people will be displaying these for years on their office desk, dresser or perhaps as a new car hood ornament. At any rate they are quite flexible. You can use one side as a thank you note, the other side as a table place holder and then your guests can insert thier individual strip into the frame.

I saw this hilarious double photo strip and just had to share. You think you’re taking a nice photo booth sequence and then all of a sudden the other photo booth strip butts in.

The article below was orginally found at:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/polaroid-abandons-instant-photography/

There are a handfull of photo booths that use polaroid instant film so it looks like those booths will eventually be scrapped.

Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography

By Patrick J. Lyons

In happier times: Polaroid’s 1970s-80s television ads featuring James Garner and Mariette Hartley wisecracking and needling one another were widely admired and imitated.

It was a wonder in its time: A camera that spat out photos that developed themselves in a few minutes as you watched. You got to see them where and when you took them, not a week later when the prints came back from the drugstore.

But in a day when nearly every cellphone has a digital camera in it, “instant” photography long ago stopped being instant enough for most people. So today, the inevitable end of an era came: Polaroid is getting out of the Polaroid business.

The company, which stopped making instant cameras for consumers a year ago and for commercial use a year before that, said today that as soon as it had enough instant film manufactured to last it through 2009, it would stop making that, too. Three plants that make large-format instant film will close by the end of the quarter, and two that make consumer film packets will be shut by the end of the year, Bloomberg News reports.

The company, which will concentrate on digital cameras and printers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2001 and was acquired by a private investment company in 2005. It started in 1937 making polarized lenses for scientific and military applications, and introduced its first instant camera in 1948.

The Lede remembers fondly how magical it was to watch the image gradually manifest itself from the chemical murk right there in your hand. But truth be told, the Lede’s own scuffed Polaroid SX-70 camera, which used to get regular use in all manner of situations, from producing a quick step-by-step primer on how to do the Ickey Shuffle to documenting a problem with a house he was buying that cropped up the day before the closing, hasn’t come out of its cabinet drawer in years.

Loyal users take heart, though — Polaroid said it would happily license the technology to other manufacturers should they want to go on supplying the niche market with film after 2009.

I dont’ know why I think this is so funny, but I just had to post this little news story I read:

By BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, January 17th 2008, 4:00 AM

Smile, you’re on condom camera.

In an updated version of the photo booth, the LifeStyles condom company is poised to bring New York nightclubs the “Makeout Booth,” which dispenses pictures and prophylactics.

“Condom-dispensing machines have always been a nightlife fixture,” said LifeStyles spokeswoman Carol Carrozza. “LifeStyles is essentially combining the concept of a condom dispenser with a black-and-white photo booth as a playful means to promote safe sex.”

The machines are expected to be unveiled Thursday at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Carrozza said the company is organizing an upcoming sampling tour of the booths at a dozen Manhattan hot spots.

“I would imagine by early February, certainly by Valentine’s Day, you’ll see them,” Carrozza said.

She said the contraptions - with the throwback flimsy curtain to provide booth privacy - are not meant to be a convenient pit stop for a quickie.“We don’t mind a little snuggling and that kind of thing, but there won’t be too much more going on right there,” Carrozza said.

Article originally found at:

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/health/2008/01/17/2008-01-17_booths_dispense_pictures_and_condoms.html

So I was just browsing the web searching for some photo booth site and ran across this one photobooths

If you like the boxy style they certainly have some nice looking booths.

http://honeybeeweddings.blogspot.com/2007/12/say-cheese.html

The above blog mentioned a photobooth being at a YELP party and I just had to figgure out what that was. Turns out YELP is an online feedback site for companies and consumers and at least in California users seem to provide relavent feedback about photo booth companies. 

For instance if you go to this link it will show feedback for some San Franciso Based Photo Booth companies

http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=photo+booth+&ns=1&rpp=10&find_loc=san+francisco%2C+ca

If you are looking for up to the date information on photo booth rentals for weddings you should do your self a favor and check out local chat boards.

 Here are some recent discussions about photo booth rentals:

http://forums.onewed.com/showthread.php?t=8689

http://www.liweddings.com/chat/topic.aspx?ID=480515&Highlight=lilbride

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2328207590065143456fCKqOZ

 http://www.weddingbee.com/2008/01/24/photobooth-fun-2/?referer=sphere_related_content

http://www.liweddings.com/chat/topic.aspx?&P=1&ID=477056&Highlight=lilbride#P5722644

http://www.weddingbee.com/2006/09/08/the-photobooth/

http://community.theknot.com/cs/ks/search/default.aspx?q=photobooth&g=5

The last link has 20 0r 30 posts to it and all this information only took me a little bit of time to find via google. Of course there’s no reason to look for another vendor besides www.rentphotobooths.com. A great product at a photo-boofarific price.

Like I said in my previous article there are less than 150 of these classic dinosaurs around the USA. www.rentphotobooths.com has been working hard on creating a digital version of this old classic; same look, but a bit more cool looking and deffinetely faster working so photo booth rentals will be a breeze. Check back on our blog for future details. Picture credit above goes to  http://www.retrothing.com/2006/07/photo_booth.html?cid=100704912#comment-100704912

http://www.teachingphoto.com/photobooth.html

The above artical is an interesting over view of the brief history of the photo booth. The most interesting thing I gleaned from the article is that there are only 150 old black and white chemical photo booths left in the USA.  I’ll have to strongly disagree with the article’s bias against digital booths though. The newest digital booths that use high resolution digital cameras create files that are vastly superior to anything from the 1900’s. The huge popularity of renting these photobooths though is right on.

http://photojpn.org/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=1&page=1

Well Just in case you’d rather have 16 tiny stickers than a strip of four photos you can with Print club Photo booths.  and this fad is easy to do with sticker paper from places like www.canon.com ’s Estore which sells the stuff, alibet at expensive prices.

http://www.last.fm/music/Ola+Podrida/_/Photo+Booth

Dog’s asleep out in the yard
Cat’s up on the roof
We’re out drinking at the bar
Down each others pants
In the photo booth

Wake me up still dark outside
Talking in your sleep
Something about an open door
And something about cold feet
I think you were asking me
To turn up the heat

Now it’s light
So let’s take a drive
Lay by the riverside
And I’ll
Tell you all about
Your sun-lit eyes

Dog’s asleep out in the yard
Cat’s up on the roof
We’re out drinking at the bar
Down each others pants
In the photo booth

I remember when the days were long,
And the nights when the living room was on the lawn.
Constant quarreling, the childish fits, and our clothes in a pile on the ottoman.
All the slander and double-speak
Were only foolish attempts to show you did not mean
Anything but the blatant proof was your lips touching mine in the photobooth.And as the summer’s ending,
The cool air will put your hard heart away.
You were so condescending..
And this is all that’s left:
Scraping paper to document.
I’ve packed a change of clothes and it’s time to move on.

January 9, 2006 6:25 PM PST

Flickr photo booth

Posted by Elinor Mills

You’re dressed to the nines and having the time of your life with friends at some hip bar. Chances are everyone in the group has a digital camera or camera phone to capture the moment. But who knows when the photos will get distributed to everyone or posted online.

A new bar in downtown San Francisco has the 21st century version of the photo booth. It’s an old-fashioned booth where people can get as candid and silly as they want (particularly after a few drinks), but it also ensures that the results can be seen by all immediately.

The photo booth at Shine, at 1337 Mission St., takes four photos and automatically posts them in the traditional vertical strip mode to the popular Flickr photo sharing Web site, which is owned by Yahoo.

“We were looking for something interactive at 5 a.m. on a construction night,” Brian Walsh, a Shine investor and the creator of the photo booth, told CNET News.com. “We asked, ‘What can go in this corner?’ I said, ‘What about a photo booth?’”

On a recent Wednesday, the booth, complete with red velvet curtain, was nearly as popular as the dance floor, with people cramming in to the confined space and waiting outside to use it.

Soon, the photo booth subjects won’t have to wait for an Internet connection to see the results. Within a week the bar plans to project photos from each night on a white screen on one of the bar’s walls in a random rotation, said Walsh, who founded the Castfire podcast advertising network.

Originally posted on http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-6024916-7.html

Wow I bet this photo booth rental to make this video was a fun time.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BSqbYZDC9Nk

Who knew the incredible hulk loved photo booths?  Here’s a web site to cheer you up and let you know that there are deffinetely people more ugly than you. Anyone looks cute next to a one eyed portrait!  Best of all you can use Apple’s Macintosh’s Photobooth software to load your own images up. So get you and your ugly friends together for lots of photobooth fun.

I’ve never been to Europe but I’ve heard that photobooths are used much more to create personal ID photo’s than for pure entertainment. Case in point here is a photobooth company that does just that:

http://www.easy-id.co.uk/images/large_booth.jpg

So if you need a passport photo you can buy your own personal photo booth and have a blast. Or if you are a little tight on cash simply use this web site to upload a photo and crop and resize them for printing as an ID photo:

http://www.portraitbooth.com/

I am sometimes asked what is America’s Photobooth Association?  Basically it is a franchise that sells one type of photo booth called the Model 12 photobooth for around $12,000 I think. Maybe that’s where they got the 12 from?

 This franchise claims the following on its web site:

All members of the AMERICA’S PHOTOBOOTH ASSOCIATION ensure the highest
quality rentals that include:

• The Model 12 PhotoBooth – the latest and best PhotoBooth in the world according to the
  thousands of users across the nation.
• PhotoBooth that gives each guest choice of B/W or Color Strips
• The highest quality mega-pixel photostrips in the industry.

The first statement is questionable; has there been a nationwide survey claiming such a following? Not to my knowledge. I’d say we put it on the ballot on Nov. 2, 2008.

Now the second statement sounds appealing at first, but actually makes guests wait longer in line. When you have a group of 3 people that go into a booth (which is very hard with a model 12 booth since they are only 2.5′ feet wide) and one one wants color and the other wants a black and white photo booth strip what do you think happens?  Well after talking about it for half a minute the line of people gets impatient and they finally settle on one or the other.  Making the wait in line even longer is the fact that this booth can only do 6 photos in a row. That means each session is 50% longer.  Net result is on average the booth only does 35 to 45 sessions per hour. So if you do rent one of these machines I’d highly recommend that you choose color or black and white photos, and keep the wait in line down and your guests happy.

The last issue to be addressed is the claim to the highest quality photo booth strips. Ask them to mail you some samples and then you can determine what you like would be my advice.