Back In December (Click here t read) I told you a bit about my current life situation and the intense work on 43rumors and MirrorlessRumors. It’s now three years that I work on 43rumors in almost every single free time I have. It’s an immense passion and joy to work with it but what started for fun become a real second job with lots of hours of work.
And it’s now time for me to find some help. In my “real life” I do travel a lot and have some major project to accomplish. I tried to find some help in the past through the “Online-friendhips” I made via 43rumors but somehow this never worked. I work as Photographer and Documentarist and starting from end 2011 I asked all my friends and colleagues if someone would help me on my websites. I needed at least one person that would help me to cover the daily news while I would keep being the only one working on rumors with my own anonymous sources.
In September 2011 I got a surprising call from “Frank”. He is a good friend of mine that studied with me Philosophy back in early 2000. He than kept studying Informatics and than Artificial Intelligence(!) He worked as professor at the University and he has been always a Canon shooter…hey nobody is perfect 😉
He heard that I was looking for some help and he proposed me this. I would promote his Canonwebsite and he would help me out whenever I would be busy at work. I accepted the offer and I am also curious to see what a man with his knowledge would do on a website like this. He has some crazy ideas that he will realize with his knowledge in informatics and artificial intelligence programming. But I will not tell you more. Here are the details of the deal:
– For the start I link from my website to his new website and for the moment he is using the same theme I have on 43rumors.
– He is the complete alone writer and administrator on CanonWatch. Just to let you know that I have no influence there.
– The website name is CanonWatch (Click here). It’s a news website less focused on rumors and more on creative content and news/reviews coverage.
– When I will unavailable for a couple of days Frank will cover the daily news on 43rumors. I will of course let you know when this happens and he will of course use his name to sign the posts.
Now I really invite you to visit CanonWatch (Click here). Not only because of the Canon news, but to know him as a person. He will need your help and feedback to check if what he does is alright. In particular you might be interested to see the full Canon 5DmarkkIII news coverage (Click here).
Something else:
Frank is not the only one that is interested to do “something” with my websites. My biggest wish is to add a creative section where good work done with m43 cameras can be easily shown. It’s often confusing to find interesting reportages and videos on social websites like Flicker and Youtube. And during my double life (as Photographer and Blogger) I learned that often non professional people I met through 43rumors have an immense talent and nice stories to show. This is my wish for 2012. To create a new room for your work. We talk a lot about cameras every day, but at the end isn’t your creativity what really matters? 🙂
Un abrazo
Ale (43rumors admin)
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Best of luck to you both.
How come you are being nice and not chanting? 🙂
Let’s try to focus our attention on the happy couple.
LOL! I knew I could count on a smart response!
Hahaha, lets see how thankful your friend will be when a flood of m43 users start slamming his comments section with how much canon sucks.
just joking 😉
Just wait until Canon comes out with their mirrorless system. If they make a compelling entry there will be a lot of common interest amongst m4/3 and Sony NEX users. It makes a lot of sense to have this set of interlinked web sites.
Hmm…. no, not really…
🙂
Question is have Canon will do, it same so; Pentax, Nikon, Sony, and maybe come a “GX1” by lens mount ?
Canon still has to come up with a camera that equals the NEX … or isn’t the size of a Volkswagen … or both.
Sony still has to come up with a camera that looks and feels like a camera, rather than a minimalist’s wet dream combined with a disturbingly large frontal protrusion. 😛
I still love my Volkswagen… I mean, 7D. 😉
I’m a canon shooter (Currently using EOS 7D…) and watching around the Mirrorless / 43 / Sonyalpha rumor to get more updated news between each system. I was remember that a long time ago 43 rumor has provide a link to canonwatch a long time ago , from that day , I keep an eyes on that homepage…….
actually I did not post or provide any rumors for canonwatch , I did not have any information to leak….just keep watching the HP…..
Canonwatch is good , compare with Canonrumors , CR is a well known Bull-shit homepage at our country…. (no offense….but it’s well note betweens the forums and actual life…) . more HP for canon news is always welcome. Hope Frank could keep it up . support you.
I like Canonrumors! I think he does a great job! Canonwatch will be very different, and not in competition with him.
Your choice works for me! I shoot with a 5D MarkII and lots of L glass….AND I have a complete MFT system so that when I want to leave all the seriousness behind I can go have fun (and still make technically amazing images).
I hope your choice gives you the break that you crave. I just visited and like Frank’s Canon site….very friendly and the same format as this site.
As for the people that completely trash a camera manufacturer…shame on them. I find that all manufacturers have assets that their competition does not. For instance …I am not a Sony fan…but I can certainly recognize that the NEX 7 has a great sensor, viewfinder and LCD. Some things that need improvement in my MFT cameras. Look at Pentax with all of those great pancake lenses. They are truly unique.
Canon has some amazing tech and lenses, some that show strengths that other manufacturers cannot match. I like to know about all the manufacturers and therefore make well informed decisions…
Its all good!!!!! With TONS of incredible new cameras being released from all manufacturers.
I also have a 7D but I was “forced” to purchase an OLYMPUS E-PL2, only because I wanted to be able to carry it around…
7D is a beautiful but HEAVY and BULKY camera, it is even painful to pull it out from the bag
Ich wünsche Euch beiden viel Glück! Die Seite Canonwatch sieht gut aus (kein Wunder – ist ja dieser Seite sehr ähnlich! ;-)). Für Dich freut es mich ganz besonders, dass Du jetzt etwas Entlastung erfährst.
I am already there. I followed the 5d m3 launch at canonwatch!
“and he has been always a Canon shooter…hey nobody is perfect” that made my day.. 😀
btw, best of luck to you guys!
OMG, we know admin’s name now! Zugriff!
Nice to see a Canon rumors site that is a bit similar to this one. I always enjoy reading up on this site and Canon Watch is looking good so far, so best of luck to Frank!
It’s especially nice to see the combination as I have decided to keep my 7D and put my m43 plans on hold for a while. Trading in the 7D was just too much, and I’m sure that somewhere in the future I can get a m43 camera parallel to my Canon gear.
I shoot in Infrared and Ultraviolet. For the past three years, it has been exclusively on m4/3rds (specifically a G1 and after the GH-2 showed up, only that).
Live view, Panasonic’s NMOS sensor and invisible light captures belong together.
Currently that is the only reason why I use m4/3rds gear.
I like the Sony NEX-7 because of the built in EVF and the slightly better build compared to the horrible NEX-5.
I left Nikon because I think the DSLR route is dead, AFAIC.
I have no interest whatsoever in Canon, Pentax, Nikon and such and their DSLRs or toy cameras or photocopiers or the many fine products they may make.
Good luck to you and your endeavors! 🙂
Good luck to you both. A creative section would be most welcome. A site like this will be a bit lacking without the opportunity to enjoy some art made with all that gear. I’d be glad to contribute.
Yes a gallery would be good
Thank you for your site, I enjoy it every day
Pierre
+1
Good luck! I check this site daily. Lots of fun!
I’m a professional editorial and advertising photographer in Miami, FL. If you want to see what I with my Pen check this project – http://giuliosciorio.com/#/client/template.xml?aaa=portfolio/57482
I have many photos on my site that I shot with my Pen. See if you can guess which ones. 🙂
Very nice work Giulio. I guess the ART BASEL project was done with a pen, just because of the aspect ratio, no other clue.
Thanks Marcelo! Yeah I shot it with a stock EPM1. I now own a 12mm 2.0, 17mm 2.8 and today or tomorrow I should have a 45mm 1.8. I even shoot editorials with the Pen. Great camera.
I’m a Canon DSLR user for the past eight years and wish admin good luck when dealing with some of the 4/3 DSLR nutjobs who won’t likely be too nice to your friend when he’s helping out here. Good luck and hope I’m wrong.
Thanks Ale! You have a nice way of saying things, and bedt of luck to you guys!
Great news all-around, congrats. We support you! I would love to see swe some of your photo work too!
As I’ve said a couple of days ago, you’ve gathered quite an interesting group of people here and that’s something you can be proud of! I’m glad you’ll get some help at last. I’ll keep an eye on Canonwatch, especially if Canon starts a mirrorless line.
P.S. Is it only me or that small Canonwatch logo looks like Turkish flag 🙂 ?