Although I do not participate a lot on the 43rumors discussions (because I have no time) I see that many readers still don’t know who I am and how this website works. So I am trying to explain a little bit of myself and my work on 43rumors to help you to get an idea 🙂
This website is amateurish:
The first thing you have to keep in mind is that I am not a professional journalist, I am not a native English speaker and I never had English at school. This is just a small blog which relies on an unprofessional but very passionate work. That’s it. I don’t get paid by photo companies, I have a “normal” work as photographer and filmmaker which makes me travel a lot. That’s why for example I have no time to participate at the discussions on 43rumors.
My skills:
I speak German (main language), Italian and Spanish. I learned Portuguese and I am learning dutch and french right now. English is the last language I “learned on the fly” during my various trips (for example in USA where I still have to go 1-2 times per year for work). I studied, architecture and engineering at high school, cinema-philosophy-psychology at University. My dream would be to study physics but I guess this will remain a dream.
Why I started the blog:
As I told you I travel a lot. My main themes are war and economy. I spend a lot of time in Colombia, Bolivia, Rwanda, Uganda and I always had to travel as light as possible. When Olympus and Panasonic announced the launch of the Micro Four Thirds system I recognized that this could become my future working stuff. I needed something small, and a camera that I can use for both photography and video production. I was looking for news about the system but there was zero coverage about it. At that time I knew I had to stay home for at least six months because my mother was sick. I spent my time to start a personal blog to collect the news. I was surprised to see people was visiting me regularly and website was growing. I renamed the blog 43rumors and it became what it is now.
Problems with the 43rumors popularity:
With increasing popularity I got in some big problems. First my language skills and time availability are very limited. With increasing amount of work I now have to spend a couple of hours per day to keep this website running. At least two times I was that close to shut down the website. I once closed it for two weeks but than readers convinced me to restart the blog. While working in stress situation I also did some mistakes (and I still do sometimes). And the biggest problems happened the last months when family issues kept me busy and I really came close to a burn out.
How I intend to work on 43rumors in future:
Two times I tried to work with some people that could help me but for many reasons it didn’t work out. The recent family issues convinced me that I have to find serious people that can help me out. It will work like that. They will work on 43rumors sister websites (like Mirrorless Rumors for example) and I will link to them regularly. In exchange they will help me whenever I am on travel or having other busy moments. But I will ALWAYS be the only one having access to my sources and to the mails. So rumors will always come from me alone!
About Cameras and Photography
A camera doesn’t matter if it comes to take great pictures. A camera only matters for me because it makes me easier to take that kind of picture is want to take. m43 is perfect for my work in countries where I have to walk a lot. A GH2 makes me easier to take videos and pictures at the same time. I use regularly my [shoplink 28308 ebay]E-P1[/shoplink] and I will use it for many years in future. My favorite camera is the [shoplink 28309 ebay]Mamiya 7 (Click here to see on eBay)[/shoplink] because it helped me to reduce the amount of “stupid” pictures I take (Main reason why: 1 picture = 1 Euro!). So while I like to talk about future cameras and technology I want you to know that no camera will ever make you a better photographer. So buy only a camera when you need it and when it meets your expectations. Example, I will probably buy the Olympus OM camera because it’s build like a rock and it’s weather sealed. Could be a perfect camera for my next Ecuador trip!
Personal stuff: The things I learned from travelling
Honestly, travelling doesn’t change you a lot. If you are an asshole you will remain an asshole 🙂 What I really learned from my trips, in particular from the many months spent in the Amazonas is that I am a very limited person, with many fears. I learned that live is much bigger than our fears and hopes, and that there are many unexpected surprises. So never be sure of anything, and never give up. Life is much bigger than what others are telling us, what teachers are teaching us.
Personal stuff: How I imagine my future life
I know life is short and that all what matters is my relation with the people I love and the nature that surrounds me. The only hope I have is to have a peaceful live for me and the person I love. And I wish to never loose my sense of curiosity which makes me always keep an “open” look on the world. There are still so many things to see! I keep those words from Blake deep in my soul:
“To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.”
My very next goal is to find a place where I can have my own terrain to grow potatoes and wine-grapes. I want to own many animals, and to play music almost every day. Of course I want many children…at least three 😉 That’s it. Everything else that comes will be a beautiful extra in my life 😉
I hope you got an idea of who I am. Let me know if you have some questions. I am always online today!
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Sehr schön etwas über die Person hinter dem Blog zu erfahren!
EDIT: Love the “asshole” part, too. 🙂
Danke!
Very cool post admin. Also this made me laugh quite a bit 🙂
“Honestly, travelling doesn’t change you a lot. If you are an asshole you will remain an asshole ”
🙂
You know a lot of languages! I only know English and Spanish.
Gracias amigo! 😉
This was a pleasure to read and also it’s quite nice to get somewhat up-close and personal with admin.
Please stop apologising for your English. As long as the message gets across, I don’t think anyone will be complaining ;D
Now that my age is approaching a quarter of a century, I’ve realised the importance of family more than ever. Always remember family comes first. Everything else is secondary.
Much gratitude from Malaysia.
Great work – up to now you a part of my life 🙂
WOW Alexander 🙂
like the guy above, I follow your blog daily! m4/3 news is scarce here in the philippines and I wish that it would pick up. Getting new news/rumors keeps my interest in the system going. keep up thw good work. more power to you
like the guy above, I follow your blog daily! m43 news is scarce here in the philippines and I wish that it would pick up. Getting new news/rumors keeps my interest in the system going. keep up the good work. more power to you
I like this post!
BTW, my dream is like yours, I want to be a physicist(astrophysics).
I am more interested in Quantum Physics. But that’s really a crazy world. I had so many discussion with physicist lately…I am really confused now 🙂
Ah, that ground makes me confusing a lot! I wish to have some discussions with the physicists but all I have is to discuss with my peer physicians, lol.
You should give physics a go! I’m contemplating a physics major at uni and going on to do optics. Hopefully in the future – camera design 😀 Quantum physics (and chemistry, the two kind of blur) are very relevant to sensor tech. I’m sure that’s where the interest came from!
This website, the many people who contribute and admin (especially after this bio) inspire me. You should watermark your work with admin so all of us recognise it! Just a tiny little mark..
Damn! And here it is my stupid english 🙂 Corrected the post thanks! hehehe
Then I corrected mine because I thought you beat me to it!
You write like a native speaker. I live in Sydney Australia and I think your English is better than a LOT of people here!
Also THANK YOU for all your work!
I have been in Sydney, yes my english is better than yours…… 🙂
joke of course 😉
Haha… now when’s that storm coming? 😉
It justed started to snow here where I live! you mean that kind of storm? 😉
Isn’t confusion and uncertainty the whole point of quantum mechanics?
Speaking from experience: at a glance and as a discussion subject it is quite cool. Really putting it to work (for example as a study or research subject) involves a lot of very intricate and difficult mathematics, almost to the point where it is magic.
Now some Dutch 🙂
Stop met het excuses maken voor je beheersing van het Engels. Het is beter dan de meeste politici hier in Nederland.
Ik heb bewondering voor je doorzettingsvermogen en de kwaliteit van je werk voor deze site. Ga zo door!
Ik heb een grote puppanolleke…is the last phrase I learned 🙂 Stupid dutch friends teaching me bullshit 🙂
P.S.: Still have to learn to write dutch. It’s easier for me to talk!
Now that is a word that I even haven’t seen before and had to Google for it.
Turns out that “poepenolleke” isn’t Dutch but Flemisch.
When they try again, a suitable reply could be: “doe effe normaal, pannekoek” (replace the “oe” with “u” for something a German speaker can pronounce”
Oh yeah, correction, I am leanring flemish…not dutch 🙂
Have they tried to teach you “dubbeltje”? We used to have fun teaching our German and Austrian friends that term. It’s simply a term for a 10 cent coin (from before the euro), but the sound is very difficult for German speaking people.
A colleague of mine works on the foundations of physics. He isn’t just capable of doing quantum physics, he also publishes work in which he analyses the foundations of the science (like: Can quantum theory and special relativity peacefully coexist?).
Very cool stuff, but I tried reading one of his papers and got stuck after three lines.
I still wasn’t able to adapt my mindset on the ruels fo the quantum physics. I am stills turggling with soem of their principles. I have another meeting with an italian director of the European Space Program by end of month. Hope wine will help me to get a step closer 🙂
Keep enjoying the learning curve! Science isn’t for those with formal training, it’s for those with an inquisitive mind.
Also, if you haven’t yet, make sure to read works by Richard Feynman. One of the very best teachers of physics I know of and a great personality. (His passion for science has always been an inspiration for me.)
Hey, I’m studying quantum information in Munich and I come from China, though I still cannot speak German now 🙁 It would be amazing if some day I can meet you 🙂
It’s surprising to see people not working in science interested in quantum physics. Maybe I should start a quantum physics rumor blog 😛
quantum rumor blog? Once quantum computers and quantum sensors will become popular…maybe 🙂
Very nice post indeed
I always come here to check the news so thanks for the site and your hard work into it!
Thanks for the personal introduction. Do you plan to visit midwest (say Chicago) anytime soon? Beer’s on me!
Yes! Chicago is on my list! I should be there in late June!
Cool, I should be around in June. Send me an email and we can schedule something, maybe even a street photo walk? (you have all our emails, right?!)
I have your email. I am saving it under “chicago contacts” 🙂
Awesome, maybe we can do a 43rumors Chicago gathering if you have a few other people in your list?!
yeah we can do it! Would love too meet other people. I should be in the city soemtimes between June 18 and 30. Don’t know it yet because it depends from the work I have to do there.
That sounds reasonable. Email me (and others) when you know a bit more detail and we can start from there 🙂
Good your going to Chicago in June. It’s -13 degrees celsius here right now! A 4/3 rumors gathering would be great.
Thanks for keeping up the good work, even though you seem to have enough to spend your time on elsewhere. By the way, I do not think people should be ashamed of being excited about new gear – it might not make you a better photographer per se but if it keeps up your excitement about photography, it might actually be one of the reasons that you take better pictures…
I understand what you’re shooting at when you say that no camera will ever make you a better photographer.
However, I must say that digital cameras have made me a much better photographer. I have been shooting film since 1975 but have found that when I started using digital cameras, my skills as a photographer improved considerably.
I think this is down to two things: Instant feedback from not having to wait for developing and the fact that photography becomes more fun when you don’t have to be bothered with the hassle and cost of development, chemicals, darkrooms etc.
“… I have to find serious people that can help me out. It will work like that. They will work on 43rumors sister websites (like Mirrorless Rumors for example) and I will link to them regularly. In exchange they will help me whenever I am on travel or having other busy moments. … But I will ALWAYS be the only one having access to my sources and to the mails. So rumors will always come from me alone!”
You are not talking about money and advertising revenues. But it seems very clear that you are anxious to protect your access to profits. I am wondering what’s in for the people who are supposed to help you out and do the work for you …
You got me, I am rich and tlaking bullshit to you all the time 🙂
I do not know whether you are rich or not. What I know for sure, however, is that this site is not a mere “hobby” but a profitable undertaking. This is not a bad thing per se (although the ratio between important rumors and affiliate links is sometimes a bit underwhelming).
My point is that you will likely have a hard time to find good support staff for free.
Who said for free? They will own their websites. I will not earn anything form them. They only give me back their help (sometimes).
As my nickname indicates, I am mostly curious and do not have a hidden agenda (= no intention of blaming you for extracting revenues out of this site). Feel free to answer my questions if you like.
Does the above mean that sister websites (like mirrorless rumors or sonyalpha rumors) and the websites of future supporters are/will not be owned by you? Will the affiliates/future supporters also have their own rumor sources and, therefore, be financially independent?
Almost completely independent. In most cases I only own the domain. The main reason why I do that is to avoid that someone writes bullshit or makes a bad work. But from en editorial and financial point of view they are competely indipendent. Beside that, there is a plan to redesign the websites to make them contain ZERO google adsense and less shop links. MirrorlessRumors for exmaple should be online in 3-4 weeks and have no banners. The goal is to earn money only to cover costs and the hours spent for work. I think this keeps the motivation on content rather than on money. Every one working on the websites already has their own REAL job.
Thanks for answering these questions.
Great post admin! Could you talk more of your gear and how it suits your work? Lenses, tripods, do you shoot alone?
It depends:
For documentaries in tuff places like Amazonas or desert I usually carry: Panasonic GH2, a fast lens (20mm 1.7), a zoom lens (14-140mm). Plus a small cheap but good Benro tripod with Manfrotto head. In bigger teams we use giant profesisonal cameras, we are going to use the Canon C300 for our next work for example.
Hi, if ever you need someone to edit posts and stuff, I’m offering my services free of charge. I think I’m also bitten with the m4/3 bug, especially now that weather-sealed bodies and lenses are coming. 🙂
Thansk for the offer. But it’s my policy form people I know well and live close to me (here in the middle of the alps). It’s the best way to “train” them how things work on those websites.
Very interesting post! Admin, we have something in common: I’d also like to simplify my live, growing potatoes, taking photos, and playing music all day long 😉
I should probably make a mega-meeting in the place I will live starting form this summer. We could eat potateos and play music. And take stupid pictures of us completely drunk! 🙂
Hi,
this is real nice and honest post! I love your site, i’m here everyday. So keep calm and carry on 🙂 Hope that you will find your part of the land and happiness!
Thank you!
best regards
Myzorki
Ein Detail fehlt nun aber noch für ein (in engen Grenzen) aussagefähiges Bild, Admin. Darf man nach dem Alter fragen?
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Admin, just a single sentence from me. You’ve got my admiration. Rarely I meet people than can do and learn so many things at a time.
I wish I could speak a lot of languages. I suppose I am blessed with my engineering skills and my stubbornness to go on. Can’t spell to save my life but I am Dyslexic so what can ya do.
I would gladly help you out but depends on if its work on ya own living costs. Mind you I have just found a Job working for a very big power company in Perth, Australia. I may not have any time left, hopefully it will be long term because I am sick of these temp Jobs that I keep doing.
Keep it up with the time you have. If you cannot take time how can you have time hey? 🙂
Thanks for maintaining this blog. And like others have said, stop apologizing for your English. It is excellent 🙂
Nice to meet you 😉
Thanks for sharing that. It’s quite amazing how much work you put in the website, and much appreciated!
“My dream would be to study physics but I guess this will remain a dream.”
When I was a kid I wanted to be a biologist (loved dinos) but I ended up as a car mechanic. Funny thing is, I’m too stubborn to accept defeat and after a few difficult years I now hold a masters degree in biology (with distinction!) and am working on my PhD.
So never let go of that dream! Who knows?! You might surprise yourself one day.
Thanks for a great website for us 4/3 nuts! 🙂
And since you are do work in Amazonas you may be interested in some work my brother Bo Mathisen ( http://bomathisen.no/ )did with the Wajapi indians in Amazonas. He stayed with them for some weeks with his Canon (!) camera for WWF.
Here is a lint to some great pictures: http://www.aftenposten.no/amagasinet/article2450065.ece#.Txky05fE34s
Will take a look now! I have been three times in Amazona. My longest trip was two months with the Shuars in Ecuador. Completely unplanned because I had to escape from extradition… I am a bit rebellish 🙂
Hey Admin.
This my first time comment. seriously you doing a fantastic job with this site. I feel something is missing if I’m not open this site for a day.
And about the “asshole” thing, you are absolutely right!!
PS: yes I am a silent reader…
Admin, I have spent 5 years in Uganda and also flew every month to Rwanda, now in West Africa. Did you visit Bubbles in Kampala a lot?
Wasn’t Rwanda a surprising/enlightening experience to think that the country went through a genocide?
Was an awesome place to live in, great opportunities for Wildlife photography.
Rwanda was definitely a surprise! First, it’s a very well organized country. When you come from Nairobi everything in Ruanda looks like Switzerland. Beside that, I felt something deeply…how can I say…”wrong” in that country. I think there is still a lot of hidden” hate”. Maybe it’s just my subconscius joking with me because of the dramatic history. But I noticed that it was hard to talk with people about what happened. Anywaym we were there for an “economic” documentary and not because of the massacre history. I hope to got back soon.
It’s great to learn some more about the man behind the website. Anyone who can quote William Blake has no problem with their command of English.
Hi Admin,
your website is part of my daily reads. You’re doing a great job. If you ever come to Istanbul, contact me ok ? 😉
Cheers
Greg
Istanbul…AMAZING city! Was a real surprise for me. No plan to go there this year, but sooner or later…you never know!
Keep up the good works, I mean it!
Buen trabajo amigo! El trabajo que haces es muy sacrificado. Muchas gracias por mantenernos informados!
De nada! 😉
Hi Admin,
thanks for sharing mate, great post.
In terms of growing your potatoes and grapes, and keeping your many animals, check out the wonderful world of Permaculture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
enjoy!!
Floyd
Hi Floyd! Everything I will do will be 100% “natural”. No mass production, no “Steroids”, no plan to make a business from it. The wine is for me and my friends and my 43rumors readers 🙂
Really? I like it red and sweet. 🙂
We love you, Ale!
Hey Admin,
Great post, and nice to learn more about you. You seem to lead an exciting life and I hope you achieve all your goals. I also have this objective to own a plot of land, herd goats and have a veggie patch. In everyday life I’m too much involved in the business of bullshit 🙂
Anyway, never mind the people complaining about your website being a commercial enterprise. I hope you get stinking rich from advertising revenues; or at least to make enough money to buy your own bit of land. You deserve it for all the hard work and soul you put into it. You provide a lot of digital junkies with the first shot of the day…
The blog itself is really good. I often use it as an example of a successful blog. Technically it’s very intuitive. I love the easy access to comments (even without registration). But most of all, you’re very consistent in providing regular content updates, and most of it interesting.
I think I’ve been following 43rumors from day 1 or 2, and I hope you keep this site around for many more years! Thanks!!!
Hi! My girlfriend and future wife 🙂 already owns a little terrain in Southern France close to Perpignan. My plan is to live there starting from this summer. I have to prepare the terrain (this means remove stones for example). I will first start to make potatos and vegetables. Only after that I plan to make my own wine grapes and wine.
To get rich with that blog is impossible and honestly not the reaosn why I started this. Money is improtnat because it justify the hours I spend on that blog, and makes it possible for me to take time off from my work. That’s it.
Congratulations on an imminent wedding!!!! And a move to Southern France… seems like 2012 will be an exciting year for you!
I know you’re not doing it for the money. But even so, you deserve to have your costs covered. And people shouldn’t complain about adds and links if it’s what makes this website possible.(IMHO).
This web is great!! I love m43 thaks this web, you are doing a great job!!
You did a great job…i would like to do a section about c-mount..what do you think?
You can do it! Vuoi scrivere un articolo?
Avevo trovato un database c-mount compilato da altri…non so quanto sia affidabile…una cosa tipo mflenses dove ognuno può recensire una lente che ha in c-mount..la cosa interessante è che oltre al micro 4/3 le lenti c-mount sono utili per nikon1 e pentaxq…si posso iniziare con le lenti che ho posseduto..ti mando qualcosa nelle prossime settimane..complimenti ancora per il lavoro….
Grazie!
Hey Admin,
Thanks so much for all your hard work. While it’s good to take constructive feedback, some people are just complainers and aren’t worth listening to. For example, recently I actually saw someone complaining that you’re *gasp* putting rumors on this site.
Not every reader comments here, but we all appreciate just how much work you put into this site – even more so now that we know how busy your life is. Your site is how I got so interested in Micro Four Thirds in the first place, and just recently I realized that this is probably my most-visited site. So just keep on doing what you do and work towards your dream. God bless!
PS Your English is really quite good for someone who’s learning so many languages. I only know three languages: English, Chinese (Cantonese), and Spanish, and I’ve already forgotten how to read/write Chinese, and most of the grammatical rules of Spanish.
You speak Chinese? Damn, I tried it but was to tuff for me. When I was in Inner Mongolia two years ago there were pure chinese speaking people only. But I had a great time with them. Amazing people!
Danke für die ausführliche Vorstellung! Es ist schön zu sehen, dass es Leute gibt, die über ihren Tellerrand hinausblicken können. Ich denke, das ist etwas, das man doch unter anderem auch auf Reisen lernen kann (natürlich nur, wenn man kein “asshole” ist! 😉 ).
Liebe Grüße und weiter so!
Gabi
Hallo Gabi!
Was mich wirklich verändert hat ist meine Freundin! Frauen können Wunder wirken 🙂
+1 😉
Ja, auch das ist eine Möglichkeit! (Mehr darf ich aus Bescheidenheit nicht sagen, da ich selbst eine Frau bin…) 😉
Mach’s gut!
Gabi
Mach’s ebenfalls gut 😉
You are just GREAT !!
Your passion towards this site is motivating and inspirational. Thank you !
Bonjour Ale,
merci pour ce site très intéressant,
Go on, good luck and have a nice day
Laurent
Herzlichen Dank für das Engagement und die große Offenheit in diesem Post. Das Traumfach “cinema-philosophy-psychology” würde ich auch zu gerne studieren. Wo schreibt man sich ein?:-)
Weiterhin alles Gute und viel Erfolg mit dieser Seite und sollen alle Deine Träume und Wünsche in Erfüllung gehen. Wir sehen uns dann bei der Weinlese…
Ralph
Ich habe in Bologna+Trient das studiert. Plus die Zelig in Bozen 🙂
Great post, admin.
Would love to post a long answer but this is my last day at work before taking a three-week holifay and being a freelance journo, my partners have sent me a Mozunt everest of work, today.
Hope all your wishes come true, some time.
Cheers
Nicolaus from Germany.
PS: Enjoying your site to the maxx!
Have a nice Holiday!
Thank you for this rumors website, the help to haul me update on camera news.
I hope all luck to you and website.
You do a phenomenal job. Very interesting and entertaining. Keep up the good work. Very best wishes to you.
You say you are a “limited person” (so we are all of us), but you speak wise words 🙂
Espero que la vida te conceda tus modestos deseos. ¡Suerte!
enjoyed the post as allways…once I grow up, I want to be like you admin (except the potatoes and wine grapes :D)
Great post. Thanks for sharing, thanks for caring, thanks for putting so much love and effort into your blog(s). May the page hits and user feedback give you some energy back!
Nice post admin
Ciao dall’Italia 🙂
Anch’io…Ciao dall’Italia 🙂
Hi Admin
I really really really appreciate all the wonderful work you put into this website. As for many others, this is one of the very few daily must reads for me, wherever I am :-).
Vielen Dank aus der Nordschweiz
Robi
Grüsse Zurück and die Nordschweiz! Fahre Anfang Februar dort vorbei um in der gegend von Bern die Ilford zu treffen.
Nice to know you 🙂
And, keep up the good work!!!
Don’t forget to announce me when visiting Romania or even Hungary! You are always welcomed!
Well, a good Romanian beer and/or wine is obviously included in the “package”. 😀
My only experience in Romania was in Arad (one week). Didn’t taste the beer there, But wish I could have more time to see mroe of the country. Thanks for the invitation 😉
Great post,
I read 43rumors daily (even more that once per day) but this is only the second post that I read about you. You seem to be really a nice person and your dreams are close to mine. Maybe in the future if we have the chance to meet (I live in Spain but I use to go a lot in Bruxelles) I’ll be glad to offer you a beer.
Ciao
Beer? I am coming..where are you? 🙂
it depends. I don’t travel as much as you but my family is more or less around europe…
Let’s resume
Good beer -> Bruxelles
Good wine -> Torino
Good fiesta -> Madrid
Westmalle and Barolo…nice mix 🙂
I prefer not to mix and to double the dose 😛
Or even better to add some great foot!
A good barolo without a dish of gnocchi al castelmagno it’s a waste
I used to read you blog since more than 3 years and I really pleased to read this post !
I imagined you as a nice person but completly geek ;))
I discover that you are indeed a nice person , but also with an amazing and accomplished life.
take care & carpe diem
molik (france)
Once a big photo company meet me and thez also thought I would be a sort of “hacker” or “nerd”. Now they know what I do for real and they are still surprised 🙂
Português ahahah, isso é uma surpresa.
Curiosity: How are you comming up with persons to help you on the websites?
Spent many months in Salvador Do Bahia. Tenho saudade!!! 🙁
What do you mean with “coming up”?
ey that was heart touching you know?
from a person that also loves curiosity, travelling, nature, physics, photography and over all people; thanks.
gracias por este post, gracias por esta web.
and please keep on giving us (43rumors junkies) what we badly like
heart touching? My emberassment is red like a sicilian tomato right now 🙂
LOL
It was great to read again more of your life. Amazing, wondering how you can get all that done! Have you ever thought about changing the scope of your site. From rumors into source of knowledge on m4/3? While keeping also the rumor aspect but not so hmmm… passionately.
Regarding Olympus here, and knowing Olympus, they are very strict on passing on information about product development. Leaks come only from people breaking their NDA (which includes contract penalty starting from tens of thousands of euros depending on security level). That´s what makes present rumors so vague…
Br. Pekka
Yes I thought about doing a perosnal website but for many little reasons I didn’t do it:
1) I am a very shy person. Don’t like to show my work also because I have a kind of syndrome…I don’t like my work. I mean, I always have to complain, I always think I could have done it better
2) I think there are already great blogs form photographers. I don’t think I could do it better. I cannot do technical reviews 🙂
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I usually get rumors some time before journalists. And of course I have more info than I write on 43rumors. This because 1) Some sources want me to wait a bit before to post stuff. 2) Because I always try to check and recheck info with other sources. There are many anonymous fake sources that send me false rumors.
Mach genau so weiter, ohne es zu übertreiben 🙂
DANKE!!
Sehr schöner, aufrichtiger und interessanter Text. Gute Arbeit ! Meld Dich wenn Du mal durch München kommst – Bierchen und Weißwurst.. ;o) … Mach weiter so!
Da bin ich oft! 🙂
Hey Admin,
also from my side gratulation to your great blog! I´m astonished how you manage to run this blog, work around the world and keep a private life…
Two years ago, I was a photography newbie and started with the GF1. Your blog helped me a lot to learn about my camera and what lenses to get. I use it a lot for my travels and fieldwork in Romania, but I think I might also be in for the OM-D…or a new Pana… =)
Thanks for this personal update, I was already wondering where you live, because you made some references about “going back to the heart of the Alps”.
Cheers from Innsbruck and keep up the great work!
Insbruck is only 70 minutes away from where I live. And I am there next Tuesday morning! 😉
Hi Admin, thanks for sharing something about you (a lot really!). I felt identified with you in many things, from the varied academic background to the languages you speak, (replace Italian with French, and we’re on the same boat). If your travels take you to Paraguay or Argentina, let me know. I’m an Argentinean living in Encarnación(Paraguay) and Iĺl be delighted to be of any help.
Warm regards.
I never managed it to travel to Argentina or Paraguay! Really, Argentina was always on top of my list but my company keeps sending me to Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil instead. But on day I will knock on your door! 🙂
You’ll be welcome! I only wish your assignment has nothing to do with wars :S
And speaking about land, here we have some of the best soils, and plenty of water. Only a tad rainy to grow good wine grade grapes. The andean region of Argentina is far better for that, though having lived in both, I’m happier with my present location.
Wonderful to “meet” you – thanks for this post, it was entertaining and even touching towards the end. You do a fantastic job here – I had a feeling English wasn’t your first language, but it really hasn’t stopped you from keeping an excellent blog!
After reading your site the past few months, never realised you weren’t a native English speaker, your English is so good I always assumed you were. I’m not an equipment geek, just waiting to decide whether to buy into mu43, I love the lenses, but I’m hoping the platform isn’t going to be left behind with some of the interesting developments elsewhere. Fuji sounds brilliant but is too big for me, lens on Sony system too limiting, don’t particularly want a OM clone but hopefully comes with a new sensor that will signal an intention to keep Mu43 competitive. Enjoy the site, great work.
I also don’t like equipment geeks. I think m43 is great for what I need. That’s it. And I have high expectensions on Olympus new sensor. Have a good feeling that time!
Vielen Dank einfach nochmal für die Riesenarbeit, die Du Dir machst mit diesem Blog! Das ist die beste Quelle für verlässliche (!) Gerüchte über zukünftige Entwicklungen bei FT und mFt.
Nicht vergessen: Es gibt auch noch ein Leben abseits vom Netz: Deine Frau zum Beispiel!
Mit “Dine frau” meinst du Wohl “Deine Frau”? 🙂
Great vision on life, Admin, not sure physics may satisfy your curiosity… It’ part of the “Das” kingdom, far below the “Ich und Du” one as used to name Martin Buber !
Wish you and your wife lots of nice days in southern France…
LV from Brittany
Now I am surprised! You are the first person I met after very long time knowing who Martin Buber is!
Happy to share this jewel whith you, I think that (Ich und Du) is one of the closest conceptual approach to how life actually works… You are right, it took me half a year to find it in french !
He is well known in the german area and not so popular outside. I agree with your sentence but there are many things I still coudl discuss about Martin’s philosophy. Would take hours…. no days…. no months(!) to talk about his view of life!
Yes, lot of time… and lot of ways when you dare plunge from concepts to real life ! That’s the beauty of it.
Anyway, let me take the oppotunity to congratulate you about the beauty of this site with nice real pieces of relationship !
I now stopped to read philosophy books. I am only buying books about potatoes and wine 🙂
Despite the few mistakes, it’s an excellent post and you run a very informative site. You have a good sense of what you want out of life and I wish you the best for your future plans and wishes.
Dear admin,
knowing more about your life and areas of interest turned you into one of my heroes. Seriously!
I think that diversity of interests is a key for an interesting life and having lots of friends.
By the way, it’s a shame you don’t share your photographic work 😉
Viele Grüsse aus Südbrasilien!
Abraços e boa sorte!
Good.stuff Admin. I hope you can find the right collaborators to ease some of the workload, I have a pretty good idea just how much time and effort goes into all this. And also how tough it is to find the right people. (I never have).
Funding is always an issue with these things, I have no problem with you making money off the site, as long as it doesn’t affect your impartiality, or becomes too intrusive. You might also want to consider accepting Paypal donations, there’s a lot of good will here, despite the occasional haters (they’ll always be around).
Actually I found one friend that will help me and two mroe students that will give it a try. I will soon let you knwo who is working on which website. I only ask for donations when I have bigger expenses for the website. For daily costs affilaite commission is enough! Thanks anyway!
Fantastic post, I think a lot of us were waiting for something like that. Thank you Admin! And great point on the a**hole part. Sometimes you meet people on the road travelling to “crazy” places just to escape themselves – It cannot be done. ALTHOUGH, I think travel makes good people even better, or at least gives them better pub stories!
een mooie dag verder, you rock.
I worte the post two days ago but than had a huge doubt if I ever should post this. I thought it would bother you to read a more personal post! Had fear the reaction would be negative.
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Of course I think travel is important. But I wnat to debunk the myth that by travlleing you automatically become smarter or wiser. Like you a met so many people that are completely lost.
By the way. Just spend some time on your webiste. Some great picture you have! (I like the Palangan village pic a lot!)
hi admin, congratulations for the great website. thanks to it I’m now the happy owner of an EP3..
after some months spent reading it I realized that we were much closer than I could possibly think: I’m from TN!
any chance to be able to see your work as a photographer? anyway keep up the good work!
Certo! Ti mando un link ad uno dei miei lavori via email. Ma tieni il segreto ok?
ottimo grazie!
Wow, thank you! Lumix GH2 with 7-14mm F4. Iran was very, very special.
Love this article….would it be possible to post some of the photos you took in these different countries?
I don’t show my single photos very often, honestly almsot never! I show “stories”, which means colleciton of photos taken over a long time. There are only a few single pcitures I made that I like. It’s the long time study that attracts me. I don’t knwo if I epxressed my idea in a good way 🙂
well, could you show some….purdy plrease? as i have a gh2 and for some reason my photos aren’t sharp…
By mest pics hav been taken with the mamiya. I use the GH2 mainly for video. So I have no damn good pics with the GH2 to show.
Seriously, can’t believe you’re able to hold this amount of work, I mean regular job, this website and private life.
anyway I really enjoy this website, keep it runnin. if you need help …
Beste Grüße aus dem westlichen Rheinland
The trick is that I don’t have an 8 hour job. I can mange the time for myself. So when there are busy “rumor” times I usually try to postpone some of the work I do. And on daily basis I try to write 2-3 articles in 30-60minutes that I schedule for the next day.
I think you do a perfect job with this site!
It is well written and your english is not bad at all! (better than mine) Also your Introduction is pretty impressive.
I am 100% behind you, and wish you the best for the future!
Grüsse aus Österreich, Wolf
Grüsse Zurück!!!
Admin, I very much enjoyed your telling us a bit more about yourself along with your reasons for creating and continuing to run this great site, my first stop every time I log on. You always manage to bring a bit of humor into what could simply be dry product rumors, this too is appreciated, as is your dedication in keeping this valuable site up and running.
You might consider including your post as a “Letter to my Readers” appended to the “About Us” section. I think it will help many to better understand your site and to be more caring/forgiving in their posts as well.
You had a good idea! Will do that!
Thank you for your introduction and for the time you dedicate to the site. I love reading the news, and the discussions they spark.
If you happen near Florence, let me know!
You will find me in Gajole in Chianti by mid February! If you have time to come…
I enjoyed the article and enjoy the blog. I start my day off with it every day. I truly understand not having much time, but I think you do a great job! Please keep up the good work. I and many others appreciate the great work you do.
Admin, you do a wonderful job and we all appreciate it.
+1! You run a great site, thanks for your hard work keeping the content fresh.
Thanks for keeping the site going and all the information and rumors you share!
In my opinion you do the best job of all rumorsites. I am working since 4 months on my own german online-magazine with news, translations of the english rumors and a lot more and i admire you, how you can make a full-time job and evaluate and answer all the emails with rumors, answer all the posts on 43 rumors and manage the advertisement.
PS: Sorry for my much more worse english 😉
Grüße aus dem Ruhrgebiet
Thanks for sharing.
Besides… I never suspected your FIRST language to be German, but you to rather come from… I don’t know… Belgium or the Netherlands…
Now that I got to thinking about it, however, I don’t know why.
Be this as it may… ich könnte in dem Falle auch auf Deutsch geschrieben haben. Aber da die Seite selbst auf Englisch ist… und sehr viele ihrer Leser… *mit den Schultern zuckt*
Anyways… keep rocking 😀
My mother is german, my father is italian. That’s why I speak german!
allora tantovale scrivere in Italiano! 🙂
I’ve tried to learn German…it’s too hard :'(
Ma chiaro! 🙂
you are loved!
This post is becoming the biggest one in 43rumors…it’s almost spam! 😀
Wouldn’t exagerate….Half of the comments is me answering you 🙂
Nice to read about you Ale!
“Life is much bigger than what others are telling us, what teachers are learning us.”
“learning” us => teaching us. Typical for many Europeans writing/speaking English.
Anyone who quotes William Blake must be as confused as I am! 🙂
You are doing great job! 43rumors.com is one of my browser’s start-up homepages 🙂
@ admin
hi Ale
you have achieved so much 😀
and have so much more more to achieve 😀
…so little time though!
I think this is the best photo rumours site, well done!!!
all the best for you and yours and any future little ones;-)
And how many little yoududntdidyou do you have? 🙂
just the 5 *embarrassed* but it’s all good 😀
Que legal que voce fala portugues! Sou do Brasil e acho o 43rumors muito bom! Keep up the good work!!
Falo bem…e eu escrevo mal 🙂
Legal! Parabens pelo site!!! Sou um grande fa…
Bravo – keep up the great work. I probably check your blog at least twice a day on average on my iphone!
I don’t care about the English grammar etc, its the info that counts.
Thanks again
Keith
good morning admin,
not a day goes by without checking on 43rumors! it is great to gain a little knowledge about the philosophical side of the man behind this site! Erdäpfelgulasch, William Blake, selber Wein machen, Mittelformat, Frauen können Wunder wirken (agree but would never admit to my girlfriend:)
and my favorite quote
“Honestly, travelling doesn’t change you a lot. If you are an asshole you will remain an asshole ”
Next time you come to NYC müssen wir uns ordentlich betrinken!
“Betrinken”, das ist unser Geheimcode next time in NYC 😉
Great job u have done, I’m amazed with your resourcefulness and energy, hope you can find the help u need and have a great year ahead! Singapore
Vc fala português? que bacana….quando vier ao Brasil, pode entrar em contato…posso mostrar varios lugares para fotografar aqui no Brasil…hahah…e ir a um estádio para ver um jogo, claro…de futebol.
Acordado!
Love your site. Check it a few times a day. Keep up the good work.
And the future could be very near: if you have a small garden, just put some patatoes in the ground, and see what happens. Thats what I have been doing for a couple of years now. Better then anything you can get in the stores 😉
Smoke
I love the site. I am here every day.
Thanks so much.
Tom
“my language skills are very limited” LOL
thanks again for all this work
I think you you do an amazing job considering English is not your first language, and that you are busy with so much else apart from this website. I look forward to hearing more about the OM-D – like you, I believe a small but robust and weatherised camera with very good image quality will be ideal for travel photography in difficult conditions. Personally, I hope the video aspects of the camera will be what I need (25p or 50p with at least 24mbps bitrate). Please keep up the good work.
Just curious about all your interesting life. Are you in mid-twenties? A guy or a girl?
Keep up the great work!
34 years guy 🙂
Wow! Impressive. You should work for united nations.
Any interest learning Chinese and Japanese? Just kidding…
Keep up the excellent work, the m4/3 world needs you.
Thanks for your explanation Ale. I usually Open the explorer with your wep page, and I enjoy it everyday. Thank you very much for your work¡¡¡¡
Admin, it’s not the first time I see you apologizing for poor English…
But actually I can’t recall anyone complaining about this. OK, there are some minor errors or typos, but they don’t interfere with the readability. So, it’s definitely not an issue!
By the way, I’m sure there aren’t many readers that speak 5 or more languages like you!
Another fake render of OM-D 😉
http://www.fotoactualidad.com/2012/01/olympus-ep4-conceptual.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FotoActualidad+%28Foto+Actualidad%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Admin,
Thanks for your great site (and the mobile version).
I must check in about 10 times a day, I’m hooked, entirely due to your good work. I for one think you should get a commission from Pana/Oly you and your site helped to convince me that m43 was for me, and to move out of Canon.
Keep up the good work.
Carl
Great post admin. I’m another silent and grateful reader of the site.
Have a question: Did you have any problem with moisture or sand shooting in harsh environments with the m43 equipment?.
In Amazonas definitely YES! If you don’t have weathersealed small bags in the morning when you wake up the camera exterior and interior is wet! You need to be very careful. And never turn on a camera that is wet 🙂
UPDATE: And with sand also of course. But I always have those transparent small bags with me to keep eveyrthing as clean as possible.
Good to know that, thanks!. I see you didn’t mention sand as a problem, I live in Patagonia where wind and therefore sand could be a major problem, I always take extra care with the lenses and cameras and until now (crossing fingers) never had trouble. Anyway I’m waiting anxiously for the weather sealed Olympus, will buy it as soon as it is available.
Reading your site helped me from buying the Pana GX1 instead!.
I only had work in the desert of Kalahari. I had luck with almost not wind.
Loose sand and other fine grain soil can be annoyance/problem everywhere they exist and it’s dry. (volcanic ash/dust would be the worst… also to your lungs)
In last April-May I was in Everest Base Camp trek and wind picked up dust rised by walking in few places. (especially dry southern slope below Tengboche)
Keeping lens cap ready to put back on after taking shot is good way to lessen need to clean at least optical elements. But still had to clean lenses couple times. Air pump is usefull also for cleaning dust from other surfaces than optical elements.
Again moisture can be problem also anytime when there are big temperature differences.
-20C air is drier than in any hot desert and even if inside air is dry during winter it still contains more water than it can carry if contacting -20C temperature object. I haven’t found any problems in just putting camera (from Minolta Dimage fixed lens prosumers to E-30 and GH-2) inside camera bag which is closed outside, leaving cold and dry air inside bag, before bringing it to inside and opening bag only hour or two later. (less heat insulating thin plastic bag would allow faster warming of camera)
Admin, thanks for the insight to your world. As others have said, visiting here is part of my life today. But life won’t end if you need to give up the site!
Wine and new potatoes are much more fundamental to life. Like you, I have a small place in the mountains (New Zealand), where the best Pinot noir grows. And I spent much of my early working years growing “spuds”, so they will re-enter my life when I get there full time.
Thank you for the effort you make to keep this interesting site alive!
Thanks for the blog admin. We dont know your name, have never seen yoor work nor how you look like. What we do know is the passion that is strongly embedded in your website. Btw i’ve upgraded for GX1 and really pleased. I wish you best of luck with your personal live. Regards, ardi @ jakarta
Great to read about you. It makes this page more human, which is an aspect that lacks on the internet. Its nice to recognize oneself in someone else.
I live in Montpellier, you’ve chose a lovely region to stay!
This is something your children will be proud of. The best rumors site on the Web!!!
When your heart has a Great Passion, language is no barrier.
Its always a pleasure to visit this site. Keep up the GOOD work.
Dear Admin, same as you, meine mutter ist deutsch ed il mio padre è italiano. Yo nací en Argentina y vivo en Chile
WOW! …your post this morning is beautiful. You live a wonderful life…AND have your priorities in order. Truly.
I can quell one of your fears…a man like you will NEVER stop being curious…with the passion that you have ..it just gets better and better.
The blake quote sums it all up. (and your English is quite good today. LOL).
Thank you for sharing your heart with us!
BUT…I think you need to give us a pen name..we are all tired of addressing you as Admin. it is so lifeless….this is not you!
Dear Admin,
I travel a lot for work but I always manage to look at your site every day. You make a wonderful job! Next time you come to Barcelona let me know, it would be great to meet you anytime!
Just want to say a big “thanks”. I’m addicted to the site, read it every day, often several times a day.
Hi admin. I am reading your Blog since nearly two years. I am very interested in mft. Futhermore it is a good alternative for me to improve my english skills. Thank you very much.
Vielen Dank für eine tolle Website!
Thank you so much for your passionate work, and your personal “revelations”. Maintaining this with the workload you describe and in a language foreign to you – Hut ab!
Your approach towards this site, photography, travel and life is one I can very much agree with. That’s probably the reason why – beyond the information – I like this site so much and read it almost daily.
Alles Gute!
Martin
Hi Admin– I love your site and love your dedication to keep this site going. I don’t mind the grammar at all, this is still one of my favorite sites on the net.
Keep up the great work with this site and with your photography. It was nice to learn more about you. And when the time is right, you will really enjoy having children, but you will never realize how much free time you had before becoming a parent!
“So rumors will always come from me alone!”
I always knew it! So you are the FT1-5, what a surprise!
Just joking 🙂 I like your site very much. I though you were an office worker but I was completely mistaken. Your life is very interesting. I wish you a good luck in everything you do. Thanks for this great site and work doing for free.
I’m here almost every day. It’s a great forum. Thanks for what you do.
Folge deiner Seite erst seit ein paar Wochen und checke Sie seitdem mehrmals taeglich….
Du machst einen fantastischen job – great Blog.
Ok, I can only think that the reason you wrote this is because of the stupid and hurtful things people say as they sit cowardly and anonymously in front of their keyboards.
I think you do an excellent job. Quite honestly, you write better english than most people I know, and whose first and ONLY language is english. If anybody is complaining about your english, I can only suspect it’s an ignorant American that doesn’t realize there are other people in this world. Heck, we even have teachers in this country who couldn’t form a coherent sentence if their life depended on it!
So, please, don’t appologize for the great work you do. The vast majority of us appreciate what you do, and may not comment on the site. It’s usually the complainers who are the most vocal and at times may appear as the majority.
Hablas español. 🙂
Claro 🙂
Hi Admin Thanks again for the great work you do,must admit easy to get addicted to the this blog…as an OM user for 30 yrs. or more….
Hope you don’t get too stressed out,we understand if you need a break sometimes
Take Care Shanti
This family of websites is the first place I go every morning, even sometimes when I’m still in bed! Keep up the great work.
I am Chinese from Hong Kong. Your follower are all over the world. Keep on with the good work,
You are doing a great job. But we don’t want you to burn out!!!!! Nor does your family. Let this 43rumors project be something that you do as spin-off of your passion for photography rather than as something you feel obligated to do. IOW, let it be a fun and renewing thing in your life. If that means less production for 43rumors, that’s okay.
Admin,
This is an impressive site and one which has a good commynity following – you have worked wonders and become the linch pin for all things m4/3!
You must be very dedicated, I do not know how you do it all.
What with knowlage of all the languages in the western world and your film, psycology, architectral and engennering background – this is a very impressive and fullfuilled life you live! – congratulations – don’t fret about the physics bit 🙂 Family and life come first…
My gratitude and admiration go to you.
J
Thanks for what you do. I appreciate the thoughts and honesty. I am considerd a enthusiast and have done much deliberation on what my next camera will be. Who knows, you may even change my negative thoughts on Oly…. went through a couple of really crappy point and shoots, but have had 5 years of satisfaction from my Panny PS. GX1 for me, unless something changes soon…I let the GF models pass me by, cause didn’t think we were quite there.
I do get amused by the negativity of some people on these blogs and forums. It is what it is…. I just want a camera small enough to carry most anywhere most all the time with as much quality as I can get.
Keep it up, be safe in your travels, and enjoy yourself.
you do a great job, admin! i don’t comment much, but i always come back here to read your work. thanks for sharing a little more about yourself, and of course, thanks to your amazing dedication. all the best.
Thanks for sharing your life. Where in Germany are you from?
I wouldn’t consider any investment in my photography gear without consulting your great resource !
Keep this site living as long as M43 lives ! (Hopefully)
Thanks.
Thanks for the bit of insight into you and your work. All your efforts are greatly appreciated. Often rumors are to be taken with a grain of salt, but rumors are fun nonetheless and your website has become a great place for people with a passion for 43/m43 photography to come together. Thank You!
Ale — high five from California!
Many thanks for all your efforts, I look at this site just about every day.
I empathise with your philosophy.
Love your passage from Blake.
One disagreemen, you don’t own animals.
Enjoy
+1 – they own you 🙂
Nice to meet you) and thank you for all your work!
Thanks for telling us all that. And thanks for such a great website. If it would help, you should add a tip jar.
And thanks for reminding me of the Blake quote and of life priorities. Do you post your pics somewhere? Would love to see them!
Vielen Dank!
Chad
Thanks so much for keeping the site going! Great work!
Very, very touching. Thank you for all your hard work! I truly appreciate it, and want you to know this is the very first site I visit (after I read my news) every morning. I personally think you do a fabulous job. But the thing I love most is your enthusiasm. I love the way you inject your personality into almost every story you post. To be honest, I already felt like I knew you a little bit.
Thanks again!
Thank you for this site.
Thanks for your work Admin! I too visit nearly daily.
At the moment this is my absolute favourite site! Keep up the great work and I hope Olympus, Panasonic and lens suppliers recognize you’re high quality content and supply you with review models 🙂 Will send a PayPal donation as soon as the funds I transferred to my account today arrives!
Admin,
let me say that you are really doing a great job! Thank you very, very much for you efforts! I always love to read the news here and enjoy the feeling of being excited when a new rumor is going its way!
I hope your wishes, dreams and plan will come true!
Klaus
You Sir are a wonderful person and have a beautiful mind.
I can find myself in many of your thoughts.:-)
Best regards and keep up the good work as long as it fulfils you.:-)
Thanks for the personal sharing. I wish you the very best and continued passion in what you do… Al
Great work. Keep it going however you can.
Also don’t get in trouble with the big camera companies. Of course they usually benefit from all the rumors but sometimes they are sensitive about IP rights etc. Just don’t want to see a good person with healthy interests get into legal trouble.
While you obviously work very hard to maintain this site, I really appreciate your dedication. It was through this site that I eventually chose to buy the E-P2. I check your site daily (recently numerous times a day) in anticipation of the OM-D. Thank you very much!
Mike from California
We love you man!
Do you have a donation button? I know myself and other readers would like to send you something for your time.
Keep up the good work!
Greetings from Canada
Also, you didnt tell us your name!
I once posted it here: http://www.43rumors.com/ft4-olympus-om-d-priced-at-1-100-or-1-000-euro-in-europe/
Thanks!
Wonderful post dear Admin.
If you are planning to visit Buenos Aires, let me know and you will be welcome!
m4/3 + M7 it is a perfect combination.
Here its mine
[IMG]http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4090/5021340893_b43dbc3a8c_b.jpg[/IMG]
Olá
Não queria deixar de marcar posição como Português, parece que os representantes de Portugal neste site são poucos ou nenhuns. O sistema 4/3 não é muito popular por estas bandas, senão quase toatalmente desconhecido.
Olympus e Panasonic deviam estar-lhe agredecidos.
Grande Site
Parabéns
Your English is excellent. I am a retired high school teacher in the USA. You have no idea how poorly Americans speak and write English.
Obrigado por tudo.
Continua!
Vielen Dank für Deine Seite, die Arbeit und die Informationen – sie sind echt hilfreich! Ich bin übrigens seit kurzem in Bolivien gelandet 😉
Hi there, thanks for this post. Now, your blog has a “face” 🙂
I read you almost everyday, though I am not so wealthy to buy new camera or lenses too often 🙂
And you definitely have an excellent “language talent” – you have not learnt English in school, but it is perfect!
Dank je wel voor je wijsheid
Als iedereen zo denkt dan zou de wereld een stuk mooier zijn
SOPA be damned. This blog is an example of what is great about the web. Please don’t change anything about the way you deliver your posts. I count on your updates To keep my sanity. Your work is much appreciated.
I love this website and you do a fantastic job keeping us all updated with the latest rumours and news. By the way your English is excellent!
I really enjoyed this post – you’re an interesting character!
Thanks for this post, I like reading about the new upcoming products, but it’s great to get to hear about you also!
I hope you will link to some of your work from when you are on assignment!
You have a great site and you do a wonderful job. keep on rocking! 🙂
Can you switch your domain(s) away from the Godaddy since if those laws passed your site could be taken down very quickly because of your posted leaks?
Felicitaciones por el blog, has hecho un muy buen trabajo con este…
Thank you for the info! While I disagree with some “rumors” that I think are related to grocery aisle gossip rags, overall the site is fun.
Could we have some Page 3 girls posing with camera equipment?
Thanks again!
Dana Kincaid
Indianapolis, IN, USA
CQ DX KA8QZG
Hi,
danke für deine Mühe, du scheinst ein echt korrekter Mensch zu sein!
Ich gucke hier täglich vorbei. Zwinker.
Thanks for your work!
Thanks very much. I know I am just one of many people around the world who appreciate your work. Love the Blake quote.
Great site and your work is much appreciated. Falls Du irgendwann mal nach Kalifornien kommst, sag bescheid!
Creo que 43rumors está muy bien escrito, y me gusta tu enfoque y estilo. Leo tu blog desde Montevideo, Uruguay. Adelante!!
Hello. Goodness you are a man not only of great learning and accomplishment, but one of great humility and understanding too. If you ever travel to New Zealand, I’m sure I’d like to meet you, perhaps at the local pub, sitting outside with a beer or two, discussing our travels and our philosophies. I should mention New Zealand is a great place to own your little terrain, and grow potatoes, tread your grapes and raise your three or more children. Prost!!
Thanks to people like you, I no longer buy stuff a week before something new is coming out. Thank you and keep up the good work.
You should consider including less organization in your post to save time. I am sure a list of all rumored spec will do fine and you don’t have to write a description.
+1
I second that, admin, you are saving us a bunch of money by letting us know whats around the corner, exceptional work and passion, I hope you will still have time to update this site after you get married, have 3+ kids and grow grapes 😉
Thank you for all your hard work, I love your sites (43rumours, mirrorless rumors)! I check them almost every day and also have them both on my facebook. I know how hard it is to manage your family/work/hobbies at the same time and I appreciate the information you provide so much!
Saudações do Brasil!! Parabéns pelo excelente trabalho e espero poder continuar lendo seus posts diariamente!!!
Finally a thread with no arguments! Thank you admin!
You do the job, and that’s all that matters. Rumour site’s live or die by what they produce. If they never produced anything worthwhile no one would take any notice of them. Some may sneer, but that ignores how many read them. How polished the are doesn’t matter. It’s all about the information. People may sneer at watching rumours, but I don’t have lots of spare money to make big mistakes with gear. So l like to plan ahead, and have some idea about what’s coming down the pipeline so I can make decisions.
I love this website !!!
Ach mir sind solche Posts immer irgendwie peinlich. 😉
Finally,…
signed up and posting!
…took me ages,
and actually all i want to say is quite simple:
thanks,
you a re doing an amazing job here,
and i seriously enjoy reading your site(s) on a daily base,
mostly in combination with my morning coffee 🙂
should i worry? nah!
cheers
Thanx for sharing this with us! Your a great guy and I read your posts every single day, so please do not quit! Keep up the good work, it’s much appreciated, but never ever let your personal life and love be in danger because of our silly hunger for news! Best wishes to you!
I don’t know why, but I felt very happy when you said you know portuguese. hahaha
Adoro esse site, mesmo não comentando muito, estou sempre visitando!
I started following this website some two years ago, with E-PL1 rumors starting…
Two years on, E-PL1 is my main camera and I’m very satisfied with it. I have two lenses and a wide converter. This is the second website I visit every morning, after my personal e-mail and I reload it whenever I take a break from work.
I’m an enthusiast, I take photos for fun and don’t earn money from them. I’m a great believer in micro four thirds, I think it offers perfect balance between camera/lens size and image quality.
I can’t thank you enough for all your hard work, for informing us, entertaining us, educating us and ( last but not least ) saving us money by telling us what the manufacturers are up to. I’m looking forward to many more years of rumors – don’t be afraid of those FT2 and FT3 ones.
Of course, if the road takes you to Belgrade, Serbia, the drink’s on me :).
Keep up the good work!
Vielen Dank Ale!
Hvala!
P.S. Your English is understandable enough and you should not appologize to anyone anymore because of it. You could write a disclamer somewhere in the “About me” secion of the website so perfectionists could read who you are before complaining.
P.P.S. Now that mirrorless systems have began multiplying, I think it’s time to put to practice the idea of merging 43rumors, mirrorlessrumors and maybe sonyalpharumors into one site. Your friend from SAR could help you with the unified website…
Thank you man !
Philosophy + technology + rumors. Perfect! ‘hardly ever see that.
Why not post a picture of your GF? We want to know…
Hahahahahah
Thank you for all that you do! You have a fantastic website that I follow several times per day! I am from the United States and after following your site for a very long time, I just realized that English wasn’t your native language. I’m shocked and impressed. Your English is better than mine and I only speak English.
By the way, think about adding a permanent paypal donation link on your main page for all the work that you do.
Thanks for your endless hours with keeping this interesting site running !
Have a great weekend !
Tore Hansen
Norway
We are a global community and I guess most of the readers here don’t have english as their native language – good thing it is all written so you Brits and Americans can’t hear all the broken english, ha-ha. By the way Admin, your english is fine to me.
Question to Admin: Why don’t you use your real name? Since you are serious about this site I think you should! (unlike me)
43rumors is a great website that I come here almost everyday.
Thanks for your work on these cameras and lenses .
From Taipei-Taiwan
I love this site — please keep up the good work! You know, if you’re really that concerned about your English, you could always enlist one or two of us as editors. You’d still write the posts, but we could tidy up the grammar for you afterwards.
Just a thought…
Eric
Thank you for all of your hard work in keeping this website going!
By the way admin: supa blog und vielen Dank, dass du uns deine persönliche Geschichte mitgeteilt hast! Fotografie ist mehr als nur Sensorgrösse und DR! Fotografie ist Leben, Leidenschaft und Kunst! In diesem Sinne: Mach weiter so Admin!!
I love this site, and i appreciate all the hard work you do to bring us the news. you don’t sound like a guy with limits and fears at all! all that travel and all those languages – impressive.
Kann mich meinen vielen Vorrednern nur anschließen. Tolle informative und vor allem sympathische und leidenschaftliche Seite. Danke für Deine Geschichte!
43rumors ist meistens, die erste Seite, die ich morgens aufrufe 🙂
Well I’m studying Physics and being a photographer for fun (together with being a singer-songwriter, always for fun!), so I know what you feel when you have lots of thing you’d like to do and you don’t have enough time to work on them all!
Best wishes for all your activities, if you want some physics discussions, let me know!
Thank you for your sites. I love it.
Nikita
Saint-Petersburg,Russia
To be honest, I actually often appreciate the way people who don’t speak English as a first language communicate. Instead of relying on common idioms and memes, they come up with unique and creative ways of communicating the message, which I find refreshing and sincere. 🙂 More power to you, admin!