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Photo book or film?

The same hundred photos can become a book on the shelf or a film on the TV. Both are good. Here is how to choose, and how to get both without doing the work twice.

When the photo book wins

A book is a gift you can hold, it lives on the shelf and it needs no screen. Grandparents love it. It suits a baby's first year, a wedding album and a trip with a few hundred good photos.

The cost is time more than money: making a photo book means choosing 60 to 100 pictures, placing them and writing captions, which takes an evening or three, and a printed book is usually 300 to 800 kroner.

When the film wins

A film has sound, movement and music, and it plays for everyone at once: at the party, on the TV, in the group chat. It suits anything with a crowd and a moment to show it: a 60th birthday dinner, the confirmation party, the end of russetiden, the evening after the trip.

The film also solves the problem a book cannot: the photos are on twenty phones. In Kamerarull everyone adds their own, you pick the moments and the song, and the film is ready in an evening. Free in early access.

Price and time

Photo book: a few hundred kroner and a few evenings, best when one person owns the photos. Film in Kamerarull: free in early access, one evening, best when the photos are spread across the group. Neither replaces the other; they are for different moments.

Make both from the same photos

Collect first, decide later. Put everyone's photos in one Kamerarull collection, make the film for the party, then download the originals, already sorted by date and with duplicates grouped, and lay out the book from the same pictures. The hard part of the book, the choosing, is done.

Good to know

Can I make a photo book from the photos in Kamerarull?
Yes, with any photo-book service. Download the originals from the collection and upload them to the book tool you prefer. Kamerarull does not print books itself.
Is there a photo book app that collects photos from everyone?
Photo-book apps work from one phone's library. Collect from the group in Kamerarull first, then make the book from the download.
Baby's first year: book or film?
Both, in that order: the film for the first birthday with both camera rolls and the grandparents' photos, and the book from the same collection when you have a quiet evening.

Start the collection before the moment's over