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 The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk.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.
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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.
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Help! We are leaving for our WDW vacation on October 3 and our 35mm camera just broke. We need to get something new. Should we go for digital or stay with 35mm? The digital thing seems so overwhelming to me. Will we have enough room to take all the pictures we want? We don't have a lap top, so we can't download anything while we are gone. We'll be gone for a total of 10 days. Is Digital easy to figure out? [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]
I would go digital. We've just bought one and it's great. I love the way you can instantly see if you've got the photo you want and if you haven't, you can take it again. The half second delay in taking a photo takes a bit of getting used to, so if you're going down this route, I'd get one as soon as possible, so you can practise with it. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] You will also need a lot of memory cards, if you don't have a laptop - sore point with us, our two 128 mb memory cards are STILL on order - over a month on! [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img]
I have both and just absolutely ADORE my digital camera!!! I have a Canon G3, and I just loved this last trip how I could just snap away and not having to worry about wasting film - I simply delete the shots I didn't like as soon as I looked at them. And the 256M card I have holds over 700 shots on the next-to-best resolution setting, which I felt was all I really needed for great pictures!
Good luck with your decision! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
I love my digital camera!! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] I am not very technically inclined either, so I can tell you firsthand it is very easy to use!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
Well, we just bit the bullet and went to Best Buy and bought a digital! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] We ended up getting a Olympus Stylus 400 Digital (weatherproof) , an extra battery, accesory kit, a 256mb memory card, and to top it all off a 4 year warranty. I have to tell you I was arguing most of the time while we were at the store with my husband about price, and just going with what we were familiar with. Well, to make a long story short, he and the sales associate won out and we came home with digital. I have been playing with it for the last hour trying to figure some things out and I can say that I'm already thinking it is pretty cool!!!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I guess I'm making the transition into modern technology.
Congrats on your new toy! We bought this past Spring. My Dh just adores it. I have not "played" with it much -- but I do think it's pretty cool. We have been taking both the digital and the 35mm with us on trips, etc. He carries the digital -- I carry the 35mm. It works well for us.
Michelle
Our 35mm camara passed away on our Disney Cruise this past February. (No, we did not bury it at sea). We got a Kodak digital and man, do I love it. Just get a couple extra memory cards. We have 35mb, 128mb & 256mb cards. All the memory cards we will ever need. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
I woud go digital. We just bought a digital camera (an HP 850) plus a 256 MB card. The card is large enough to hold 240 pictures.
The digital camera has been so liberating. We recently went to the zoo with the kids and took 120 pictures. We would never have taken that many pictures with a 35mm camera.
Right now we just keep the pictures on the computer. We will probably make prints of our favorites but we're also going to try making a VCDs to play back on our DVD player.
If you are getting a digital camera also buy at least two sets of rechargable batteries and a fast charger. Digital cameras go through batteries faster than a 35mm camera.
The one downside to a digital camera is action shots. Our digital camera takes longer to focus and take a picture than a 35mm camera. Most digital cameras also have a one or two second lag time between shots.
I [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img] my digital camera. It's an older Kodak easyshare, but it is great! (Working on talking DH into an upgrade, soon. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] ) It also shoots Quicktime videos with sound, which can be fun, like when we are on a ride!
Digital frees you up to take as many pictures as your memory can handle! I have a 128 and I can take about 200-some at best resolution. It is more than plenty for a weekend trip to Disneyland.
For WDW next year, we are planning on bringing our laptop, so I can send the best pictures to shutterfly.com and have the memory books waiting for us at home when we arrive!
I don't remember the site, but there is also a site that puts your pictures into a cloth-boun
I would go digital if you absolutely have to buy a new camera. Kodak makes some very simple to use cameras that are affordable & easy to figure out. Most cameras only come with an 8 MB card which is practically worthless. If you're going to be at WDW for 10 days, I would buy at least one 128 MB card, and maybe a couple of 64 MB cards too. I think some people here have mentioned that there are a couple of places in the parks where you can download your digital pics to a CD in case you need more room.
IMHO, digital is great because you can see the results on the screen on the back of the camera right away. I took both 35 mm & digital on my last trip, but I used the digital for shots that were once-in-a-lifetime moments (like character meetings). That way I knew that I had the shot because I saw it immediately. Also, you can customize your digital shots so easily. My pic in my signature was taken with a Kodak digital camera & I added the text before I took them to WalMart to be printed ($.26 per print).
Whatever you decide, have a great time! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
I recently bought my first digital camera, and I have been very pleased with it.
I went with an 'enthusiast' camera, as opposed to a 'consumer' camera, because I wanted some features that are tough to get on a consumer camera. But the mostly, I wanted to:
* Save myself the cost of film and developing
* Have an instant preview of my shots
* Save myself the time and trouble of scanning all my film
* Get a lighter, easier-to-carry camera than my wonderful (but bulky & heavy) Canon EOS Rebel G.
I got myself a pair of 128mb memory cards, because I figure that if something goes wrong with either of them, I'll not only have a backup that's the same size, but I'll only lose half my pics instead of all of them. Of course, I'm one of those with a laptop that I take with me to download my photos, so I'll never lose more than 1 day's worth of photos if one of my memory cards glitches.
I also bought two sets of rechargable batteries (my camera takes 4 AA's), I use a custom-made cloth camera strap for comfort, and I always carry a gallon-size ziploc bag as a camera poncho in case of rain or water rides.
The other day I found a wonderful pocket-size memory card carrying case at Radio Shack for less than $5 that is just the right size to carry 4 AA batteries and my spare memory card, and will fit neatly into my pocket.
cslittle999, just a bit of advice: when making VCDs, CD-RW disks work much better than CD-R disks. They are readable by a wider variety of DVD players.
Thanks for the tip about CD-RW vs CD-R for VCDs WillCAD. I would have thought the exact opposite. I'll have to read my DVD player's manual to see what it says.
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