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NIK-0612_DBL_Fotosource_mag_EN.indd 3 10/14/08 3:58:17 PM Moments Winter 2008 to Memories Features The Importance of Archiving Lasting Memories 10 Share Your Memories with foto books 11 Letter to Santa This year’s hot products for the holidays 18 Celebrate Winter, Quebec City 21 Wonderful Whistler Blackcomb 26 Digital Photo Frames The Electronically Elegant Solution 30 Frame it! Who says you have to be rich to have original art? 38 Mittens A photo essay 40 8JOUFS Moments 5 to Memories This season, enjoy the 34, 37 warmth of family & friends 4BWF5JNFXJUI (CPVCUVKE(KPFU GPSFWFSZPOFPO 14 ZPVSTIPQQJOHMJTU )TGCVRJQVQRTQLGEVU GPSZPVZPVSLJET 8IJUF0VUo PVSCFTUUJQTGPSHFUUJOH #OC\KPI9KPVGT2JQVQU *SSFTJTUBCMFJUFNTUPDBQUVSF 18, 30, 38 BOETIPXPõZPVSTQFDJBMNPNFOUT Get it right, from the source! GPUPTPVSDFDPN CLICtXJOUFSA 1 Moments 11 to Memories 14 Every issue... Editor’s note 4 fotoFINDS 5 fotoTIPS Take dazzling winter pictures 14 foto101 18 Point & Shoot vs. DSLR, What to buy... 15 fotoPROJECTS Calendars – the gift that keeps on giving 34 fotoKIDS Creating your family tree 37 foto source store directory 43 Parting Shots Putting your shots into print 48 34 21 30 Editor’s Note At Moments to Memories though, we know that cameras are really just part of the picture (forgive the pun). It’s also about what pictures become – memories. In every issue, we are going to share with you different ideas about what Welcome to Moments to Memories! you can do with your photographs to get them off your memory cards and I’m excited about sharing this first issue out of drawers, closets and shoeboxes – with you. We’ve tapped into a territory ways to share the memories and relive that I believe almost everyone can the wonderful times when, and revisit relate to. Whether it’s a fear of the beautiful places where, you were technology or a stack of unorganized inspired to take them. photos lying around, I’m confident you’ll find something here that will This summer, I was fortunate enough inspire, intrigue and enlighten. to travel to Italy. When I got home I continued to relive the holiday, sitting Moments to Memories aims to give at my computer looking through you information about cameras and hundreds of photos. After a long day imaging technology in a way that’s though, I realized I didn’t want to spend easy to understand, so you can focus anymore time at my desk, but I wanted on getting great photographs. to continue to look at my pictures. So, I created a foto book. Now it sits on the I am a true believer that technology coffee table in my living room, where is great – as long as it works. When I not only I can enjoy it but so can friends had a corporate job, anytime I had any who drop by. Take a look at “Share your technology issues, I’d pick up the phone, memories with foto books” on page 11 call the IT department and like magic to see how easy it is to do. the problem was fixed. I didn’t know how or really care to know how. Now, if I’m very good, I’m looking forward to Santa leaving a digital When I joined the ranks of the self- photo frame under my Christmas tree, employed, I never thought about what so I can look at all my photos of Italy. I would do when my computer crashed I sure hope he reads “Digital Photo or if I had to install drivers for a new Frames: An Electronically Elegant piece of hardware. I mean drivers – Solution” (see page 30) so he can aren’t they something you use to get me the right one. golf with or the person behind the wheel of a car? As I mentioned earlier, the more that’s known about something the better it Luckily for me, I have some very works. I’d love to know what you think techno-savvy and patient friends, about Moments to Memories. I invite you particularly my computer wiz John. to share any ideas and suggestions that As they fixed things, I watched and we at Moments to Memories and our amazingly, I learned. The two most readers can learn from. important things I discovered are that technology isn’t scary and the more Happy Holidays, you know about it the better it works. Most people tell me the thing they’re most afraid of when it comes to technology is looking foolish or asking Anne McIntosh silly questions and in turn, being taken [email protected] advantage of. There’s nothing worse than being sold what the salesperson wants to sell you and not what you need to buy. Moments to Memories will strive to dispel those fears. 4 — Moments to Memories • winter ‘08 fotosource.com fotoFINDS Always wake up with someone you love – great for frequent travellers, Fidelity Electronics’ DC15 is an all-in-one alarm clock and photo frame that lets you take your loved ones on the road with you. Able to hold 60 photos that can run in slide show mode, you can wake up to the smiling faces of loved ones.