I have two kids. A four year old and a five year old. They each have many friends. Each of these friends has one birthday per year. Therefore, almost every other weekend we are at one of the bounce houses in the area. Each time, I bring my camera with the hope of trying something new and getting some good shots of the kids.
As a result of this, I think I have a bit of experience from shooting at these places more times than I would like to count.
OK, I now have to say that the AF in the 5D Mark II is definitely a step up from the 5D. Given that hardware-wise they have the exact same AF, the difference must be the Digic IV processor.
This weekend we took the kids to a birthday party at a jumping house. I had been to this identical location several months earlier with my old 5D and I was keen to see what the true difference would be.
Recently someone asked about traveling with both photography equipment and children. Since I have done quite a lot of that, I thought I would share my experiences.
We have two boys – ages four and five and we usually take one international vacation each year and fly domestically twice each year. Our domestic flights are usually either to New York City (which is an easy direct flight from Seattle) or to Rochester, NY – which is more difficult because we have to change planes and the aircraft are smaller.
So far we have taken our kids to Rome, Singapore, Thailand, Israel, and Mexico on separate trips. Our five year old has been to ten countries already and both are very used to aircraft and are seasoned travelers.
In every trip since I bought my DSLR three years ago, I have brought the majority of my equipment. The equipment has varied as I accumulate more of it but it started out as a fully loaded Tamrac Expedition 5 and now I use an Airport Accelerator from ThinkTankPhoto. The following are my recommendations for traveling safe and sane with both.