I LOVE IT! Obviously, I have taken very few shots of anything but the kids swimming, but I simply love this thing. When I first download the pictures, they're so clear, I can see pores! (well, practically). Here's a few:







The girls and I drove out to Hagerstown today for my nephew's birthday party. We went swimming at my sister-in-law's mom and dad's house. They gave out ugly teeth, which the girls enjoyed, and those big huge balloons you can attach to your wrist and bounce back and forth, which the girls didn't take since they're made of latex. But we had a great time.

This is my awesome brother throwing Lauren in:



And here's Megan wearing her teeth:



And another action shot, sort of out-of-frame, of Carson finally getting up the nerve to jump off the little diving board:

Nice pics. Looks like the kids had big fun!



"There has to be an invisible sun."

Ha ha ha, love the teeth

Nice photos! Your kids are crazy photogenic!

What kind of camera is it?

Wow! Your sister-in-law's mom and dad have a gigantic pool (complete with lifeguard).

Congratulations for your new camera.

It's a Nikon Coolpix. Dan picked it out for my brithday. I haven't done much with it....in fact, here's a shot of Megan that needs the red-eye fix because I haven't even played with it enough to figure out how to do that!

aw nice fun pix!

The teeth are hideous.

Austin Powers teef.

Jo luvs dem hideous English dude teef.

Far out!!!

Nice! I've finally saved up enough to get the camera I've been wanting and nobody sells it on Maui anymore.
GRR!

Nice! I have the same camera Kathleen.

That last picture of Megan shows her GHOST!

Her ghost? What's that mean?

I have an old friend that's kind of into this - I think she's referring to the "orb" just above the child's head in the last photo. Used to get a lot of emails of photos w/ orbs in 'em. Yeeahh.

Love her though, and I guess it's kinda interesting in a spooky kinda way.

The little spot of light... the aura. You don't know about ghosts Arwen?!?!?

Ack! I SEE IT!

Wait for hopefully more adorableness (and no tears) to follow as I am on my way to the elementary school with the girls and their bikes. So far, Megan has only rode a bike in the toy aisle of Walmart....this morning.

Each lens that is made for a camera has minor imperfections- in low light conditions these imperfections show up as small spots of indirect light through the lens onto the recording medium. People have called these orbs "ghosts"- That said, I normally don't believe in the supernatural belief around them- mostly cause in my job I deal with optic elements all the time- and know how unpredictable they can be.

THAT SAID- I bought a 50mm lens for my new camera (which has a very short depth of field and produces these very intimate portraits in natural light)- and I took a couple of pics of my wife while she was reading in bed.

There was a green orb, an obround one that was on the side of her head, in not one, but two pics. The weird thing was the orbs seemed to follow her head- in the same place, changing sizes- I have never seen one those things do that before- VERY STRANGE.

I would post them, but not sure my wife wants her picture here...just thought it was worth mentioning....

Scribble out her face. I wanna see the green orbs.

I'm curious what your ISO goes up to, also. I can get 1600 on mine, but grainy. Can shoot in the dark with that lens though.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

Ohhhh

I see it now. A ghost. Of course

Sure thing Z- When I find the disk reader I will be posting more stuff on FB- I love this frickn lens!

At the camera swap I bought the 50mm was- there was a huge 220mm AF with Auto stabilizer- guy wanted $500 for it, which is more than my camera cost, but it was super sweet- I would have never needed another lens again.

Holy disaster. No blood shed, but....the older two are not 100% confident about riding and insist they need a push to get started, I put Megan on her bike, turned my back to help Carson, and she (Megan) took off down a teeny tiny little hill, peddling like a champ. Until she freaked out about hitting the curb, got off the bike, and decided she was done. I love her.






They all wore helmets, BTW, but took them off for the picture because they were sweaty.

I keep reading this thread title as "Oh, how I love my new camel!"

What a great link, Arwen! Thanks!

Damnit!

"The beets, they haunt me." Louise

I swear i only clicked on it like 4 times before i realized it wasn't a link.

I am happy to report Megan not only got back on her bike last night (after falling down our cement stairs and breaking open both knees), she rode that thing to the elementary school, around the parking lot twenty times, and then halfway home. AND she tipped over twice making too-sharp turns but got right back on.

I think this antiobiotic must really be working. Over the Spring, I tried walking her to school (about four blocks) on sunny days and she could only make it one way. Had no energy. And last night, she had a lot!