That made me smile. Not only can I relate but what the camera adds keeps growing. We recently changed our diet and followed the advice in What Would Jesus Eat?. 
While I'm not into the recent What Would Jesus [Whatever], we found the book quite helpful. I lost 25 pounds in 6 weeks following the diet (and only the diet). We're changing our lives to better follow this diet from now on.
We just took our boat out last weekend and the resulting pictures tells me I need to lose another 25 pounds. So I was just telling the wife the camera adds 50 pounds. But this was just a small digital camera. The camera used at your event was probably three times larger.