The trip, from everyone who was on it.
Everyone takes 400 photos on a trip and nobody looks at any of them again. The group chat gets the eight that made someone look good. A roll does something different: a fixed number of frames across the whole trip, hidden until it's over.
Why a roll suits trips.
A whole trip on one roll
Set the shots to cover several days rather than one night. People ration them, which means the photos are of things worth remembering rather than every meal.
Reveal when you get home
Nothing develops while you're away, so the trip is spent on the trip. The roll lands when everyone is back and the whole thing can be looked at at once.
Everyone's camera, one film
No more asking four people to send you their photos and getting them from one of them, compressed, three weeks later.
How to set up a roll for trips.
- Shots per person
- 36 or more per person
- Reveal
- The evening everyone gets home
- Tier
- Free up to 5 people, Starter up to 25
Trips are the one occasion where a higher shot count is right. A single night rations well at 24 frames, but across five days that's under five shots a day and people stop bothering by the third.
Trips questions
Does it work without signal?
Shots need a connection to reach the roll. On a trip with patchy signal, expect photos to arrive when people are back on wifi rather than instantly — which makes no difference to the reveal, since nothing is visible until then anyway.
How many shots for a week-long trip?
36 or more per person. Fewer than that across several days and people stop shooting partway through rather than rationing.
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