The Shashin photobooth at the National Family Festival 2024
A DSLR photobooth with instant prints, an on-the-spot digital copy and custom frames - our ShashinBooth, out in the wild at the National Family Festival.
By FrontHAUS Team · Editorial
On 30 May we ran ShashinBooth at the National Family Festival 2024, one of Prime Minister Lawrence Wong's first public events after taking office. A family festival is a hard test for a photobooth. The queue is long, the kids won't stand still, and "ten seconds" either means ten seconds or it means a crowd losing patience.
The booth is a DSLR behind a branded enclosure. A real Canon camera and studio lighting, not a webcam, which is why the photo actually looks like something you'd keep. Behind it sits a DNP printer that hands over a print in a few seconds, in whatever size the event calls for. Families tapped to start, posed, and walked off with the photo in hand before they'd finished laughing about it.
What caught people off guard was the digital copy. Scan the QR on screen and the high-resolution photo lands on your phone straight away. No "enter your email and wait," no paywall. You can email yourself the full-quality file as well, and clients can load in their own frames so every print comes out on-brand. A green screen swaps the backdrop, and an AI remix lets guests do something more playful with their shot.
Organisers like it because it more or less runs itself. It needs barely any staffing, and the printer reports its own paper levels, so nobody gets caught short mid-event. For the families it's a small thing to do together and a printed keepsake to carry home. Both of those are harder to get right than they look, which is exactly why we like doing it.