ILP rolling photo quarantine 2

(Btw, Schwantz - those old scans you're putting up at the moment are extraordinary!)

OK Beeps with the drums = <3. You guys are pretty brave!!

All these kids are adorable. You ppl make good babies.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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!

Beeps' star series:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4251026703_c1509aa408.jpg

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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/4251026153_f47d06189c.jpg

^^^It's the UFO club all over again - I'm having flashbacks...

One day all these cute babies will look like this...
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http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4260087898_cd2ee9ee81.jpg

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

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2720/4265139414_c58694cfb5.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4264388317_f2f1b7c7a2.jpg

finding daddy's wallet
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2769/4265139640_467ebecd46.jpg

...and about to go online and buy stuff.

Also - Henry's jumper = awesome.

lol teaching her early <3

OMG, the kids on this thread are too cute.

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss71/fabrickd/BaxterChloe.jpg?t=1263198539

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:

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http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4258066810_af9255a801.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4020/4254670959_d95f510b86.jpg

Picks? Either pics or pix, you, er, pick.

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:
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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

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/DSCF8016.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4276291681_52e336bc55_b.jpg

Sylvie's cheeks are a thing of wonder Tyler! Fantastic!

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

First time on the swings

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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

Doh

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4301317147_ba12ee1d33.jpg

Three in row where I've snapped kids eating. Is it any wonder people don't invite me to restaurants?

It is one of the few times that they actually stay still enough to take their photos though

have i mentioned how cute everybody's kids are on this thread? dang!
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Not sure what that face is saying but it's pretty awesome.

great pic

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.jpg
It is one of the few times that they actually stay still enough to take their photos though
Amen.

Horrified in Cheltenham.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4320695556_5345f07ae2.jpg

LMFAO!

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

that statue has always puzzled me. what and why?

as public art in cheltenham goes the kit williams clock is much better.

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.jpg
I 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.

lol at cheltenham pic ....

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.

chillin' in the boppy

http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss71/fabrickd/DSC01262.jpg

awww. we need to dig out our boppy.

Beeps in Mommy training:
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Great pic! I'm in awe of you guys with more than one kid. How do you do it???

aw her hair is so cute!!!

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sylvie through the weeks

pictures of yawning babies are never not completely adorable

Wonderful Sylvie series.

Today, Ava turned 5.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2716/4357088743_e6c8b9c30f.jpg

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.

Since Nathalie just taught me how to post photos, and I'm in full proud-dad mode, here come the kids:

Elia
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4389807742_e0a78b0fec.jpg

Twin #1 Giona
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2777/4389852646_d7e8708f1a.jpg

Twin #2 Tobia
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2716/4389822544_968de6572e.jpg

super cute, marco!
here's Sylvie at 6 months
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2731/4380906548_58d9bdcbd8_b.jpg

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