(Btw, Schwantz - those old scans you're putting up at the moment are extraordinary!)
― Michael Jones, Monday, 4 January 2010 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
OK Beeps with the drums = <3. You guys are pretty brave!!
All these kids are adorable. You ppl make good babies.
― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Monday, 4 January 2010 13:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm trying to scan all my mom's negatives and slides, which is a crazy, lifelong project.The ones I just put up were from a Crossroads Africa program, which is where she met Kennedy, and my dad.
I think the one crappy thing about the Pentax is the AF system, which really makes the pictures a focus lottery. I just shoot tons of shots, and usually some come out clean. Sometimes, though, I just get a big pile of out-of-focus stuff. Maybe the newer Pentax cameras will fix that, or maybe I'll have to make the jump to Canon/Nikon.
― schwantz, Monday, 4 January 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
That's a shame about the autofocus on Pentax - I didn't realise it was that inferior. A lot depends on the lens but I would've thought the 50/1.4 was about as good as it got.
I've been really spoiled with the 28/1.8 on my Canon - it nails focus, even with off-centre points, in absurdly low light. With lesser lenses, it helps to have an AF-assist light; the Canon bodies annoyingly dropped this feature with the move to digital, so the AF assist on my flash is useful. Does the Pentax have a light on the body?
Pam got me a secondhand mid-'90s Vivitar 100mm f/3.5 Macro this Xmas (seeing as the Canon, Sigma and Tamron equivalents are way beyond our budget); built like a toy, sticky manual focus, but really great optically. Where it struggles though is AF - I'd forgotten what it was like to hear a lens go through the gears, desperately hunting for something it can lock on.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 4 January 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I think Canon has the AF system nailed. Of course, with an f/1.4 lens, almost everything is out-of-focus, so I understand a little churn, especially when the kids are on the move. How does AF assist work? The camera says it supports AF assist, via the built-in flash.
― schwantz, Monday, 4 January 2010 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
AF-assist - with my old EOS 10 film body, and with the 420EX flash unit, it projects a little criss-cross pattern of red light onto your target for the phase-detect AF system to lock into. No good if you're trying to be discreet, of course, and I'm not sure how well it works if you're not focusing with the centre point. Using the pop-up flash for AF assist is much more intrusive, as it does a little low-intensity white strobe thing.
I imagine the Pentax 50/1.4 is a bit soft wide-open, maybe even as far as f/2.8 or f/4 - most of them are (only the megabucks primes, like the Canon 85/1.2L, 135/2.0L, etc, are sharp at wide apertures), so even with correct focus, pictures can look a bit fuzzy. But you don't really have the luxury of stopping down if you're trying to freeze motion with a high shutter speed indoors. Does the K200D have various AF modes - like one-shot, servo, etc?
― Michael Jones, Monday, 4 January 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I try and use the one-shot mode (otherwise it will hunt forEVER). I also just choose the single-point mode, to avoid confusing the sensor. I guess it's just the deal with the 1.4 lens. If it had better high-ISO performance (less noise), I would just shoot at 800 ISO, I guess, which would help. It might just be that at 1.4, only a tiny bit of the picture is in-focus.
Maybe one of the external flash units has the AF assist lamp...
Thanks for the advice!
― schwantz, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Beeps' star series:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4251026703_c1509aa408.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2704/4251799078_c3ef32e99f.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/4251026153_f47d06189c.jpg
― drinking coke in the kitchen with a kid that doesnt know his n (sunny successor), Wednesday, 6 January 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^It's the UFO club all over again - I'm having flashbacks...
One day all these cute babies will look like this...http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4260095174_d27f37a150.jpghttp://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4260087898_cd2ee9ee81.jpg
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 9 January 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Owen at the aquarium in Georgia:http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4262325703_7f03678acc.jpg
Ben at the park:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2762/4264262163_7f57051afb.jpg
Owen eatin' cheese:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2711/4262327727_4026562974.jpg
― schwantz, Monday, 11 January 2010 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4265139414_c58694cfb5.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4264388317_f2f1b7c7a2.jpg
finding daddy's wallethttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2769/4265139640_467ebecd46.jpg
― drinking coke in the kitchen with a kid that doesnt know his n (sunny successor), Monday, 11 January 2010 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
...and about to go online and buy stuff.
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 11 January 2010 07:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Also - Henry's jumper = awesome.
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 11 January 2010 07:47 (fourteen years ago) link
lol teaching her early <3
― tehresa, Monday, 11 January 2010 07:48 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG, the kids on this thread are too cute.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss71/fabrickd/BaxterChloe.jpg?t=1263198539
― Darin, Monday, 11 January 2010 08:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Wonderful sequence of picks. I'm glad Baxter and Chloe are so fond of each other (or perhaps Chloe has no choice in the matter at the moment).
It's all about Lulu at the moment; photos of Ava are only to be taken on her terms ("take a picture of this tower I've made for the dinosaurs, Daddy"; "They're yr mum's food colouring bottles, where the hell did you get those?!")...
So, three stages of Lulu - mid-shampoo, post-shampoo, post-comb:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/4255432192_027c0b4ff5.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4258066810_af9255a801.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4254670959_d95f510b86.jpg
― Michael Jones, Monday, 11 January 2010 11:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Picks? Either pics or pix, you, er, pick.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 11 January 2010 11:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Gorgeous pics everyone. Alice still regards hair washing as cruel and unusual torture - maybe if we build in a photo shoot she'd enjoy it more.
Here she is posing for friends post-Christmas 2009:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2764/4255743955_c04947d5fe_m.jpghttp://farm5.static.flickr.com/4005/4255743991_9cff0f2328_m.jpghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2774/4255744055_ae5dd3b73c_m.jpghttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2794/4255747211_9c91ae78f7_m.jpg
― Archel, Monday, 11 January 2010 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Festive Archie
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/S0pa_3CJaAI/AAAAAAAAONM/c-asaB06c4s/s800/IMG_0854.JPG
Snowy Howie
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/S0uzIWovZKI/AAAAAAAAOaw/oGpl-hGn6gM/s800/photo.jpg
― Meg (Meg Busset), Monday, 11 January 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/DSCF8016.jpg
― Sammo Hungover (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 14 January 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4276291681_52e336bc55_b.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 15 January 2010 23:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Sylvie's cheeks are a thing of wonder Tyler! Fantastic!
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 17 January 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Lovely Sylvie!
Just developed an old roll of Kodak black'n'white, stretching back to July 2008. Tallulah, with short bangs, when we still counted her age in months...
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4050/4293503005_dc52d802be.jpg
And this is Ava eating poppadoms in our local Nepalese in September last year...
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4293507737_d7eabd6974.jpg
― Michael Jones, Friday, 22 January 2010 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
First time on the swings
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_Q2cuqOo8v8M/S1oYwZilvEI/AAAAAAAAObw/2BZFDX-N6TQ/s800/photo.jpg
― Meg (Meg Busset), Friday, 22 January 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't get over how big he is Meg! And so like his brother
My boy likes his pasta, I'm sure he'd live on it if he could
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pernfors88/4301317147/
Photo by Mike
― Vicky, Monday, 25 January 2010 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Doh
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4301317147_ba12ee1d33.jpg
― Vicky, Monday, 25 January 2010 08:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Three in row where I've snapped kids eating. Is it any wonder people don't invite me to restaurants?
― Michael Jones, Monday, 25 January 2010 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
It is one of the few times that they actually stay still enough to take their photos though
― Vicky, Monday, 25 January 2010 10:00 (fourteen years ago) link
have i mentioned how cute everybody's kids are on this thread? dang!http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2768/4312382851_34e23cbb9b_b.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 29 January 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure what that face is saying but it's pretty awesome.
― with a bad girl's enlightenment and a Buddha's passion (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 January 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
great pic
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 29 January 2010 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Been a while...she's walking, colouring with crayons, attempting somersaults (WTF!) and being lovely and wacky.http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/whysoserious.jpgIt is one of the few times that they actually stay still enough to take their photos thoughAmen.
― there's a better way to browse (Dr. Superman), Sunday, 31 January 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Horrified in Cheltenham.http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4320695556_5345f07ae2.jpg
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 1 February 2010 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
LMFAO!
― schwantz, Monday, 1 February 2010 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Owen and Ben went with me to the zoo today...
Petting a goat:http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4319422833_e9d19aecac_b.jpg
Owen:http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4320159738_573a0954b2.jpg
Ben:http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4319426731_e6696275ed.jpg
― schwantz, Monday, 1 February 2010 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
that statue has always puzzled me. what and why?
as public art in cheltenham goes the kit williams clock is much better.
― koogs, Monday, 1 February 2010 09:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, the clock is good, but Mae was distracted by chocolate/twix pretzels nearby and wouldn't stand under it when the bubbles started. So, for information - and non-Brit readers who might wonder wtf we are going on about - here's a non-child related photo of it...http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4321297881_2cc2656821.jpgI quite like the other sculpture though. I have no idea what it's about, I think the artist just likes hares. And hares would obviously hang out with minataurs. Mae and her cousin thought it quite hilarious of course and giggled about it for quite some time.
― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 1 February 2010 10:24 (fourteen years ago) link
lol at cheltenham pic ....
― tylerw, Monday, 1 February 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
also can't wait to take sylvie to a petting zoo -- my wife and i are both weirdos who liked to go into those things before we even had a kid.
― tylerw, Monday, 1 February 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
chillin' in the boppy
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss71/fabrickd/DSC01262.jpg
― Darin, Thursday, 4 February 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
awww. we need to dig out our boppy.
Beeps in Mommy training:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/4331266489_d97365e937_b.jpg
― no more springs no more summers no more falls (sunny successor), Friday, 5 February 2010 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Great pic! I'm in awe of you guys with more than one kid. How do you do it???
― Darin, Friday, 5 February 2010 06:37 (fourteen years ago) link
aw her hair is so cute!!!
― tehresa, Friday, 5 February 2010 07:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4341241708_96e0a4a8a7_b.jpgsylvie through the weeks
― tylerw, Saturday, 13 February 2010 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
pictures of yawning babies are never not completely adorable
― musically, Saturday, 13 February 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Wonderful Sylvie series.
Today, Ava turned 5.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2716/4357088743_e6c8b9c30f.jpg
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 14 February 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Happy birthday for yesterday Ava! Five! Amazing.
The wonderful Sylvie may single-handedly persuade me that having another child would actually not be such a bad idea.
― Archel, Monday, 15 February 2010 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Since Nathalie just taught me how to post photos, and I'm in full proud-dad mode, here come the kids:
Eliahttp://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4389807742_e0a78b0fec.jpg
Twin #1 Giona http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2777/4389852646_d7e8708f1a.jpg
Twin #2 Tobiahttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2716/4389822544_968de6572e.jpg
― Marco Damiani, Friday, 26 February 2010 14:57 (fourteen years ago) link
super cute, marco! here's Sylvie at 6 monthshttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2731/4380906548_58d9bdcbd8_b.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 1 March 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
All these cute babies! Here's what they look like as super-jaded toddlers:
Ben:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2715/4396274829_c8ccd3a337.jpg
Owen:http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4397042074_96ddc28417.jpg
― schwantz, Monday, 1 March 2010 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link