A dad on our forum related how he had made a video of his own son and baby to give to him for Father’s Day. Isn’t that about the best present you can get as a dad? These fatherhood years go by so quickly and all we all love to try to recapture the feelings we had through them. Videos made in iMovie or in Adobe’s Video Editing suite for PC can be the best Father’s Day gift of all. Here is the video HDFree gave to his son and sent us: Though I’m not a big country fan and I find “Let them be Little” by Billy Dean a little sugary sweet, it’s hard not to get a little teary listening to the lyrics that talk about how short childhood is. We made a list...

Here are five solid camera choices for Fathers Day 2009: For HD Lovers: Canon PowerShot SD780 IS – Photos and HD Video. $280 Birdwatchers and long-distance viewers: Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 – Longest zoom for a point and shoot at 12X. $400 Most portable: Sony DSC-T700 Cyber-shot – Tiny and flat with 4GB of internal memory but only a 4X zoom. $400 Most brand conscious: Leica C-LUX 3 – It’s a Leica, and very good, but the price shows it. $600 Budget conscious: Nikon Coolpix S220 – Good basic camera, but don’t expect a lot of bells and whistles. Biggest camera buying hint this year. Compare sensor size not megapixel quantity. That will determine...

Interesting article in Popular Photography on a study that shows that men and women, in eye-tracking studies, look at photos differently. Our first question: Do men and women physically see the world differently? There is some evidence that the answer might be yes. A report from the Online Journalism Review made a splash in March 2007 when it reported an eye-tracking study that looked at where viewers glanced on a given news page on the web. When presented with an image of a figure, females most often looked at the face, while males focused both on the face and the crotch. Funny enough for salacious blog posts, but the results may have been onto some serious differences in behavior. In 2000,...

If you’re having a baby or just had one, now is the time to plan how you’ll catalog the baby’s first year’s development. We’ve covered video in other articles on GreatDad.com, but here are a few ideas and tips for photos; 1. Start early. You’ll want photos even before the baby is born, including of your wife’s stomach, and then in the delivery room. No one needs a lot of photos of a bloody baby, and within a few years, you’ll realize that you’ll be deleting photos showing your baby’s private parts. 2. Take lots of close-ups of chubby little baby hands and feet. 3. Find a place in the house like a big chair where you can take a picture...

Sony Cyber-shot DSCW120MDG/P 7.2 MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom with Super Steady Shot $180 – Amazon I love this camera! We just got the DSCW 120 for our summer holiday and I was hoping it would work well and replace our five year-old DSC V1. The two cameras have several things in common: a Zeiss lens and many manual over-ride features, but the new camera is far smaller and easier to use. This is a great little camera and represents how far Sony has come in developing an interface that is easy to use. This is the first camera I’ve seen where an explanation of the icons shows up on-screen when you dial a selection. No more trying to remember what an icon of a tree or a mountain...

File this under: “What will they think of next, and why can’t I think of goofy ideas like this to make a few bucks? ManBabies.com does a mashup of your baby’s head and yours to create an arresting combination. It’s too bad you can’t upload your own photos and instantly make a “man-baby,” but you have to “submit your photos” via email and wait/hope to be chosen. Stlll, the site is worth a quick gander just to see some funny looking dasd and their kids. In some cases, the dad head (or expression) goes better with the baby or child body. In some cases, the result is simply grotesque. More photos at ManBabies.com