CameraSpot Reviewer's Comments
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CameraSpot is our #15 online digital photo printing service.
Ease of Use - Ordering Process:
CameraSpot sports an extremely easy process for uploading and ordering your photo prints.
Quality of Prints:
CameraSpot did a decent job on the photos we sent them–see comments below:
Below are the original photos. Click to Enlarge
Below are the prints developed by CameraSpot. Click to Enlarge
- People Inside: Skin tones look really good; perhaps even better than the original, however, the color of the blouses did not stay true.
- Building Outside: The details are softer not quite as crisp but at the same time this reduces some blemishes. The pillar's color is slightly brighter and lighter as is the whole print, but the overall color is quite close.
- People Outside: There has been more cropping on this picture than we care for. The overall color of the print has a yellow tint, making the overall print lighter.
Note: To check quality, we took each set of prints received from the online photo developer and laid them down, side-by-side for comparison.
Pricing:
The more commonly-ordered print sizes are typically more expensive from CameraSpot than average, while larger-sized prints are usually below average in cost.
Service and Site Features:
CameraSpot offers 15 photo-based gifts and as far as standard services go—they only do greeting cards. This service also talked about a feature that allows "sharing your photos with your family," but we couldn't ever find the link to access it.
Shipping Costs/ Turn Around Time:
CameraSpot charges to ship us five 4 x 6 inch prints were $2.99, the actual postage for USPS First Class was $.74, leaving $2.25 for packaging and handling. This total shipping cost was on the high side compared to the majority of online digital photo developing services.
Our prints came in a paper sleeve, wrapped in a paper envelope—pretty scrawny for the $2.25 that was kept, in part, for packaging purposes.
:
We gave each photo developing service anywhere from 1 to 4 days to send us our completed prints; CameraSpot met that requirement.
Summary:
CameraSpot's website contains very little information regarding their services. We also found that their prices for more-commonly-ordered, smaller prints are more expensive than average and their costs for larger-sized prints are below average cost. We feel there are all-around better online digital photo developing services than CameraSpot.
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