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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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05-15-2005, 06:17 PM
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Community Rank: Trailblazer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: BURLESON TX (near Ft. Worth)
Posts: 5,589
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WillCad, Lizardcop or anyone who owns a digital camera.
I'm a 35mm point and shoot kinda gal but I'm trying to upgrade to a digital. I want a lot of zoom, 10x optical too much? I want to make 4X6 prints most of the time, 8X10 occasionally 5 Megapixels enough? What size memory card?
I really like Cannon cameras but would be willing to buy something else if it had what I wanted. I saw a Kodak I liked with a dock to print the pictures yourself. I want a camera easy to use(hey, I'm a first timer and if the docks are too hard to figure out, I'll just take my card and have Sam's Club print them. There's too many features. Do you LOVE your camera? Tell me about it! HELP, TIA!
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05-15-2005, 06:36 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
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Re: WillCad, Lizardcop or anyone who owns a digital camera.
Here's what I do with mine:
I have a Canon Powershot A70 and love it. It has 3.2 megapixels and I have developed pictures up to 8x10 and they have turned out great. I use the superfine setting on my camera to help assure this. My camera has a 3x optical zoom with 8x digital zoom I think. I usually only need to use the 3x unless I'm at a concert at way in the back. When I'm ready to print my pictures I just take my memory card to somewhere like walmart or CVS, somewhere with the kiosk, and stick the card in. Then its just following the directions on the screen. When I'm done I'll upload the pictures to my computer so I can save them (sort of like keeping your negatives). If I can't get to a kiosk (like when I'm at WDW) I'll just upload my photos onto the computer and delete them off the card. Then when I get home I save them all to a CD and take the CD to the same kiosk. I love my digital camera and plan on upgrading soon. I've had this one for over 3 years and just want to get the newest version of it (mine has seen some rough days, getting dropped on cement a few times). Good luck with what you decide!! I digital photos!
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05-16-2005, 10:21 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Philadelphia
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: WillCad, Lizardcop or anyone who owns a digital camera.
I have a Fuji FinePix s3000...
3.2mp, 6x optical zoom.
I love it!
I find myself taking more pictures since I don't have to worry about getting "the perfect" shot anymore... if it doesn't come out good, I just erase it and try again.
It takes a little getting used to, as the shutter speeds with digital cameras are slower than with film cameras, so don't be surprised if your first few pictures are blurry.
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05-19-2005, 10:55 PM
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The Original BagMan
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Shalimar, FL
Concierge Level: 6
Posts: 22,002
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Re: WillCad, Lizardcop or anyone who owns a digital camera.
Well Kelly.....
Any of the major brands will do fine. For the "inexperienced" I suggest the Kodak easy share, Canon Powershot, Nikon Coolpix, and/or the Fuji FinePix.
First, decide what you plan to do with it. If you're just gonna take family outing type pictures, that extra zoom may not be the best thing. A long zoom in a digital usually leads to many blurred pictures, at least until you get used to the camera and the "increased shake possibility" of the longer zoom.
Personally, I'm using an Olympus C-750UZ which is a 4MP camera with a 10x optical zoom. I do a lot of nature photography, birds, sea life, wild critters, etc... I do not use the digital zoom at all, I'd rather perform that in the editing stage with my photo program.
While the camera is capable of 4 Mega Pixels, I set it to take 2288 x 1712 pixel pictures. It is set at SHQ (each pic averages 2MP) and will produce very good 8 x 10, 11 x 14, and higher pictures. Do I print out many that size, nope...
DW (Jan) has a Canon Powershot A85, a 4MP 3x optical zoom camera. She has it set for 1MP pictures (1024 x 768 pixels) and they print out good 8 x 10's.
Shop around and get the opinions and experiences of others on the list. Go to the "big" electronic stores (Circuit City, Best Buy, etc) and play with the various models to find what feels right for you with what you want on it...
As for memory card size, there are many schools of thought. Some recommend buying multiple smaller cards in case something happens to a card, some prefer to use one large card. They both have their advantages and disadvantages. I use a 512 MB card as my primary card, it holds 200 to 225 pictures at the 2MB size. When it gets full I have a 256, 128, 64, 32, and 16MB card which I use, in that order.
Hope this helps some, and if you hav any other questions, let us know...
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05-19-2005, 11:22 PM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Near a Tower of Terror at the moment...
Posts: 13,884
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Re: WillCad, Lizardcop or anyone who owns a digital camera.
I have a Nikon Coolpix 3200 and I like it very well. My only complaint about it is that the flash takes longer than this impatient photographer likes to wait to recharge. I really love it. It's a little tiny thing, zooms pretty well, and goes up to 3 mp (I think ) I do NOT print my own pictures, even though I have an HP photo printer unless it's for something that I might use a polaroid for (vacation Bible school, for instance) It is more expensive, the paper/ink have not been extensively tested for aging, and the quality isn't as good. I personally use SnapFish for my prints, upload them online and in a few days, I have my photos.
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05-20-2005, 08:19 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: NC
Posts: 12,270
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Re: WillCad, Lizardcop or anyone who owns a digital camera.
BILL I Love your new sig pic! Andy did that one year for his dad.. he took a bunch of pictures of Chewy and put his dad's face in place of Chewy's for his father's day card last year
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05-20-2005, 09:46 AM
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Community Rank: Explorer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Concierge Level: 6
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Re: WillCad, Lizardcop or anyone who owns a digital camera.
I have a Kodak CX 7530. It is a nice camera but I am so spoiled by my SLR that it isn't quite enough for me (as far as zoom ratio). I like the fact that you can change light and exposure settings. It also takes really nice night photos (my camera has image stabilization). My digital actually takes better night photos then my SLR with a tripod.
I recommend you go with at least a 4.0. Unless you enlarge photos to 11x13 a 5.0 is not necessary. I took an incredible photo of the castle with Partners in front of it at night using 4.0 on my camera and it is a very crisp and clear photo. Just beautiful!
If you want a great zoom you are going to pay for it. Fuji makes some nice zoom cameras (any of the FinePics cameras are nice) Make sure you look at OPTICAL zoom not Digital zoom...there is a huge difference in the quality of your photos. I never use my digital zoom...the photos come out grainy. I have a 300 zoom on my SLR so I am very spoiled by that. My Kodak is okay for close up photos but if I want a zoom I bring my SLR (even though it weighs a ton!). Right now I am looking at getting a Canon Eos (they just cam out with a new model that has all the bells and whistles.) These cameras are very expensive ($1000-1500).
My Kodak was $230 and I am very happy with it. I wanted to see if I would like using a digital camera and I do. It saves me SOOOOO much money on film. I was just at Disney last week and I took over 700 photos (150 on my SLR and 550 on my digital). I love to scrapbook so I have plenty of material until my next trip to Disney in December! The great thing about a digital camera is you can take as many photos as you want and they don't have to cost you a penny. When you get home just load them up on your computer and save them to a CD. Actually that is what I spend last night doing...everything is organized and I don't envelopes of photos to go through or boxes of photos to store. The best part...NO FILM TO BUY! Yippie! Okay I used a few rolls but not nearly as many as I could have.
Here is a great site that I used when before I purchased my camera in December:
Steve's Digicams
Oh one more thing it is much cheaper to get your prints made at a place like Sam's Club. My Sam's Club does an awesome job on photos and I won't take my pictures anywhere else. They charge 17 cents a print to have them printed at the store. At home with a photo printer it would cost about 27 cents a print! Also thing about the quality of the prints made in a $150 machine compared to a $100,000 + machine.
I use two 256-memory cards and that isn't enough. I think I am going to get one more for my next trip. I don't recommend using a 512 just because if that card gets lost you will lost all your photos from your trip! I put my name, address and phone number on the case the memory card comes in just incase it gets lost.
Good luck and have fun shopping
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05-20-2005, 02:46 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Wahiawa, Hawaii
Posts: 1,047
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Re: WillCad, Lizardcop or anyone who owns a digital camera.
We had a Canon Powershot A40 for awhile (2MP, 3x optical zoon), and it worked just fine for things like vacation pictures and whatnot.
We JUST got (and we're talking this week) a Kodak CX7530 (the one Robin is talking about), because I wanted a higher megapixel camera (this one is a 5mp). It took us about 5 weeks of research to finally agree on that one. I have gotten into digital scrapbooking, and since we will be moving to Hawaii this year, I wanted to be able to take some better quality pictures. The zoom factor wasn't a big deal to me (like the others have said, if you want zoom, you will pay extra for it) for the digital camera (although we have been researching digital video cameras, and that is where I will be making up for my lack of zoom!)
For the new camera, we have just one 256mb card (but have added another card to our baby registry, LOL), but I also tend to bring my laptop with me everywhere I go, and download the pictures right onto my laptop to free up space on the card. (For the Canon, I had a 128 and a 256, and rarely switched them out, because I could get a serious amount of pictures on them, even at 2mp.)
Our camera came with a photo printer, but we don't plan on using it at all. I much prefer taking things to Kinko's to get done there (usually after I have Photoshopped them to my liking and burned them on CD) or to Sam's.
Definitely go to a couple of stores, play around with the cameras, and see what you like. Have fun shopping!
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