Life always manages to surprise our short staying on this world. Almost a year ago I was hit by a multiple series of not so good events (article here). Those bad news were related to some people close to me that have been living different kind of issues. The months after I worked hard to fix what could be fixed. Of course some things cannot be fixed at all. It had been a time where I spent more energy than I could get back from the world around me. But as I told you, life is immensely surprising. And not only bad news come and go, also unexpected good news hit you from time to time 🙂
Particularly the news I am going to share you today will have a great influence on my life and also a bit on my work on 43rumors. That’s the reason why I choose to make it public. I will very soon become father for the very first time. The baby is “scheduled” to see the light of the world…guess when…January 1st! Of course you never know when that creature decides to jump out of the box 🙂
As we are pretty close to the event it could be that when this happens for a few days 43rumors will not be updated. If you see me not posting any news you should know that I have a good reason for it! And the first two weeks I will likely post less on this website. Could be that I skip the usual news-reviews coverage in favour of rumor posts only. And please don’t be upset if I don’t answer your mails or if your comments will take long time before they get approved! And expect me to double or triple the error rate in my already poor written English! 🙂
Thanks for your understanding!!!
P.S.: I am now going to the gynecologist with my wonderful girlfriend (and future wife). Will be offline for a few hours. And here are some more little news:
43rumors and Mirrorlessrumors design update:
A small design update on 43rumors is coming. And ipad and iphone versions are coming too.
Mirrorlessrumors will be completely redone and become a “vertical community” where to share stories and work and news around the mirrorless world (it will take 4-5 months to develop that).
Thinking on doing a personal blog:
As you know I decided to live somewhere in the middle of nowhere on the Pyrenees. I am thinking on doing a blog sharing some of my small experiences doing that life. I may do camera reviews by photographing cows and goats 🙂
Slidoo:
Last week I presented you my Slidoo.com project (article here). This is an easy search and notification service for eBay that soon will be expanded to Amazon too. I carefully discussed all your proposals and ideas with my programmers and most of them will be realized soon! Thanks for your help and keep using and testing it. I hope you will find it useful!
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big congratulations, not to forget to take pictures 🙂 and thank you for you work…
!!! Congratulation !!! 🙂
Es was mit Hand und Fuss & das auf Anhieb!
Oly & pana-> take a look at it 😉
Congratulations!!! First shot of the kid with a micro 4/3 is a must! 😀
good shot already happend… 😉
Congratulation!
Kid with Nokton 25mm will be great!!
Yep, I have the Nokton ready in my “emergency” bag 🙂
That IS great news! It’s a shocker at first, so prepare, but it will open your eyes to the world in ways that you can’t imagine now. Best of luck.
Congrats!!
Just take your time, family is the most important thing in the world!! so don’t missed out you first time experience to become a FATHER!. your child and your wife is really really REALLY need u!! nothing better then wait beside your wife and look at your child at the first time, when i remember mine, it always makes me cry…
once again CONGRATS bro!
Congratulations!
🙂
pics of girlfriend or this never happened :p
congrats!
Congratulations
Congratulations!
And… poor kid. Don’t be like most parents that merge Christmas and birthdays. Make sure your kid always has a special day with separate presents, and you’re not all so exhausted from the holidays that you kind of neglect the birthday. My mom is still bitter over her childhood because she was born in early January.
Congratulations :-] (me too!) a new addition to the mft family…
Congratulations on first rumors about your (comming to be) new family member. Is it FT5 ?
Will he/she be weather resistant ? What about image stabiliser ?
Congratulations¡¡¡¡ 😉
Congratulations from me, too! 🙂
Oh, sorry, I forgot to log in… That is me!
Heartiest congratulations Admin, may the light shine forth and bring much happiness into your life and into your wife/partners life, wishing the baby the best of health when he/she enters into this world.
Congratulation ! You’ll see it is so good to be a father ! … I’m about having the GH3 and a very new lens from SLR Magic… Stay tune between two nappies 😉
Ready to link you 😉
Congratulations Admin!! your life is about to change like you never imagined! You’re gonna need a bigger hard drive!!! Enjoy every minute, it goes by SO fast.
Congratulation ! Yes, it goes very very fast, enjoy your new life ! :o)
Congratulations! And try to sleep to sleep in store 🙂
Congratulations! I envy you for being able to witness one of the greatest wonders of life =)! I wünsche dir und deiner Familie alles Gute und viel Gesundheit!
P.S. …und viel Spass beim Wickeln =)
Danke!!!
Fantastic news, Ale! Congratulations!!
Congrats ! This is the best FT5 rumour ever provided and I am strongly honored with this sharing… All the best to both of you.
So, the baby will be French I presume ? Félicitations ! 😀
Nope, born in Antwerpen! Will live in France and speak four languages. Flemish (mother), German (me),Italian (parents) and French. That’s going to be confusing at the beginning 😉
Congrats, hope you don’t like sleep much ;D I really like Slidoo btw, slick and useful. It’d be great if you could expand it further!
Congratulations!!!
😀
XOXOXO, congratulations!
First I’d like to say I hope all goes well with the birth. It’s a tremendous joy but also hard work for which most of us aren’t prepared. Don’t worry though, you’ll find out that everything will fall into it’s proper places after a while. You can read a thousand books about child care but in the end it all comes down to very basic principles: common sense and balance.
Don’t worry about your typos, we’re already used to it and it wouldn’t be the same without it. BTW you meant Life, not Live. 😉
ops…corrected 🙂
congratulation …did you choose the name ?
Yep! For both, female and male as we don’t knwo what it is now 🙂
Don’t worry about posting every news/review, almost all of those can be found easily when having list of interesting sites.
Instead take care of the family.
CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!
Fantastic news, no doubt …better that anything I read here for the last couple of years 🙂
All the best to your Baby, your future Wife and to You of course.
Cheers from Zagreb, Croatia
Congratulations Admin. My first was also due on the 1st of Jan, but decided not to miss Christmas and arrived Dec 7th……keep your (camera ) bag handy.
My only tip is not to be too prepared, because then it won’t be as amazing! I hope all goes well, and focus on the mother as well as the baby, as the post natal time is REALLY hard on Mums.
HEYHEYHEY, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
A child is more important than anything in life.
I appreciate your work, you deserve a peaceful family life.
Take a week off…enjoy life!!!
Congratulations and shouldn´t this be a FT5? 🙂
Good one!!! (FT5 not confirmed until birth is official!) LOL!
This is wonderful. Life is a miracle.
Thank you for enriching all our lives with this site.
Félicitations pour cette heureuse nouvelle ! Beaucoup de bonheur à la famille !
Congratulations Admin.
I must say I agree with the post by Anonymous and the keeping of a birthday that must not be part of Christmas.
You will be very busy. If we find a lot of posts we will know you are hiding from some dirty tasks (I was an expert at failing to fold a nappy) therefore I hope we get some posts but not to many.
Congratulations!!!
I’ll become father for the 1st time too but in March, I think it’s a privilege that God send us, making life a beautiful thing to witness.
Cheers from Portugal
Congrats!
I wish you all the energy needed to raise the little one, after that yuo will be ready for more! 😉
So…. any rumors on who the father is? 😉
… Congratulations! Don’t feel bad letting us wait a bit for the updates – I guess your child (and the mother) will appreciate more of your time now. 🙂
Congratulations!
My favorite W. C. Busch line for you:
Vater werden ist nicht schwer,
Vater sein hingegen sehr.
Enjoy every moment of it!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Shouldn’t this be an FT5???
Congrats!
Is this rumor FT5?
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
Congratulation from Venice!
Congratulations!
Well, in a few years time, you’ll have someone to work with you on rumors :D.
Great news!
just give me the news about E-P5 when/if and then care about the baby of course…hahaha just kidding
I guess the child doesn’t even know what a good advantage it will have – it’s life documented from the very beginning with some amazing photographic gear…no iPhone shots like most of us 😉
heartily congratulations, the life has just began for you
I figli sono la cosa più bella che possono esistere complimenti
Big congrats.
I’m a father of a 2 years old beautiful girl and you will see life in a new way for sure after the birth. Prepare to be proud and happy and astonish by your baby and a lot tired for few month …
You will have big new responsabilities but it worth it, seeing your baby growing up is something unique and beautiful.
Take some vitamin, have good rest, sleep when you can and enjoy life cause it pass too fast.
Oh and invest in the best camera system you can, with extemely fast focus, very good iso, and light and small camera . Cause child move fast, don’t want to stop posing (at the begining) and when you travel you have enough weight taking with you already (you will see)
. that’s why i had choose the OMD EM5 with PL25 1.4
It is perfect for taking child pics in any circonstances. (home, walk, travel with your baby)
Again, congrats to you and your wife.
Admin, I’m very happy for you!
I am a double-father and know: Kids give your live a new meaning.
Whatever was perfect in your live – it’s nothing compared to the happiness which you will have with your child. It’s a part of you – and it is wonderful.
BTW: carrying a baby means, no big photo-equipment. So MFT ist perfect for you. My most used lens is the Oly 12mm. Your Nokton ist perfect for the sleeping baby. You probably won’t need this lens at night 😉
All the best! Greetings to your wive – I cross the fingers four your family!
Congrats admin! Hope everything goes painlessly!
Best wishes from austria!
And good look for your future family!
Congratulations! It looks that you have your priorities right, good for you. Enjoy the ride and please please do forget about us for a while!
Congratulations! That’s the best ‘excuse’ to have a break from this site 🙂
wow, congratulations!
Congrats! Mine is expecting soon too. First weeks of the new year that is. So I can understand how you are feeling right now.
Congratulations, either to become father and to come to live in France, my country ! Welcome to all three in my beautiful homeland.
Ans sorry for my very bad written english (spoken is worse !)
Congrats & good luck to your family!
Congratulations. Thank you for your dedication… Take good care of your family. Enjoy life…
Congratulations !!!
All the best with your family, and don’t hesitate to take time for it.
Van Harte gefeliciteerd, ook voor moeder de vrouw, neem je tijd.
I suggest to call him/her GF1. And don’t forget to make a full lineup.
That’s great news. Congratulations
Hi Ale, rumors only is absolutely fine.
Don’t make the same mistake as many busy people – you really should spend as much time as you can with your kid!
I speak from my own experience – I also did change my life quite a bit in the last years and it’s absolutely necesssary and also worth it!
Congratulations to both of you!
I wish you mush luck with your baby and thank you for the great work with this website! Greetings from Bremen, Germany
Congratulations!!!
I think it´s a little bit early for congratulations. But I send my best wishes for you and your girlfriend!
Fortunately not a rumor post 🙂
Congrats admin.. you’re the man!
Welcome to the club ! Your vision of the world is changing ultra-faster for ever and the life has not means the same thing as before. It puts nearer to heaven… Good News man! Congratulations
congratulations….
you just know that Olympus and Panny will release stuff at JUST the most inconvenient time now eh 🙂
Congrats Admin. It will be the greatest time of your life. Make sure you get a GH3 though. There is nothing like it for recording your kids growing up.
Are you taking suggestions for names? Admin Junior? Just kidding.
lol! Will put him at work on 43rumors as soon as his english is better than mine. I guess we will have to wait until he is three 🙂
Whoa!! congrat admin!!
I’ll give you a week to enjoy your new lovely creature!!
Congrat admin!!! Capture the moment!!! No flash. Use a prime 🙂
Congratulations!!! I’m on the same boat as you!!! “Scheduled” for May, though! 🙂
Wow! It’s a great news for 4/3s fanboys also!
Congrats our web master and your (future) wife!
Congratulations!
FT5? Congratulations! I’m very thankful to admin and other readers on this sites, sharing good news on m43. Hope nothing problematic on you!
FT5!CONGRADULATIONS!!!恭喜你！！！
Congratulations to Admin & future wife .
Hopefully things will back to normal once you have news for my dream cam , OMD Pro or GL .
Congrats! That’s great news!
Congratulations. Great news.
congratulations!
waiting for your baby’s pic in few days!
Excellent news!
Congratulazioni 🙂
Congratulations!!! You have the best of all possible excuses. Enjoy life!
juuuuuuuhhhhh nice! my daughter is celebrating her first birthday on 02. febrauar! iam so happy 🙂
Many congratulations!
Life’s greatest adventure is just about to begin, I wish you and your family nothing but health and happiness!
😉
Congratulations Admin family! Hang on!
‘Live somewhere in the middle of nowhere on the Pyrenees’: Interesting. So you’re going to be a landscape Photographer?
Nope..cow photographer 🙂
Haha! That’s cool! Really! 🙂
Congratulations Admin.
My best wishes to you and to your family
Good to hear such good news (althogh your life will never be the same again!) Warmest congratulations to you both.
Congratulations!! That’s awesome news! Wish you guys the best…. what a gift for 2013, eh? 😀
Congrats! Maybe we wont see you more than just a few days…
Great news, i wish you, your girlfriend and your child the very best in the world.
And we will be almost neighbours, i live in Northern Portugal.
Love those mountains, i go every winter to Valle d’Aran.
Congrats.
Have to add my congratulations as well! Thanks for sharing, best wishes for the birth and those first few weeks. Ignore the site, enjoy your child.
Congratulations! Fantastic news — best wishes to you all…
Best news ever! Is it a FT5? JK. Happy for you and your family.
If the baby comes in early, you will also get tax break for 2012.
Congrats!
Congratulations!
Congrats! I’m a fresh father too (3 months), so I know what it means… You’ll be forgiven for any (even prolonged) “downtime” on 43rumors 🙂
congratulations. that must be the fastest baby ever 😀
Congrats Ale! Having recently become a father for the second time, I can say that life will certainly, never be the same, for great reasons.
Enjoy the transition into fatherhood, it truly is a special experience and all our best to your (future) wife. 🙂
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Good luck and best wishes. Enjoy these moments…they’re special…and sleep when you can.
Congratulations Admin !
I wish the three of you the very best.
Is this child a FT5 rumor ? 🙂 I haven’t seen it in the 2012 roadmap. A wonderful Christmas gift !!
congrats to the whole family 🙂
Congratulations!
My best wishes =)
Congatz!!! I hope you can keep up the work. Alot of nightly posts! Chrz. From Amsterdam.
Congratulations for the good news 🙂
Honestly dude, drop the website, just post on dpr forum, and focus on the family
congrats!! best wishes from Istanbul : )
Dear Admin!
Congratulations!
And all the best wishes!
Congratulation. And I wish you girlfriend easy labor and a healthy and beautiful baby for you 2.
Congratulations!
And all the best wishes!
Congratulations!
I look forward to the upcoming 24-hours-a-day posts. You WILL be up at all hours! 🙂
It’s worth EVERY SECOND of lost sleep, every ounce of baby-puke you wash out of your hair and clothes, and every penny you spend on getting pictures of your little-one.
Enjoy everything about it!
Congrats! and good luck.
Congrats.
We’ll wait for you.
Kudos to GH3 baby. I wonder what a photog’s baby’s name will be…..
Wow! Congratz!
Congratulations from the US, Admin! We just had our second a couple weeks ago. Don’t forget to bring a camera that someone else can use for you! 🙂
Big congrats, this will be the best time of you life!
Congratulations! 🙂
Congratulations!
All the best to you and your family.
Aryeh
Congratulations! Great rumor! Please limit any “unboxing” videos of your January event to the private audience.
Jokes aside, I’m happy for you.
Cheers!
Robert
DOn’t think you will see that kind of messy unboxing 🙂
You should definitely make the middle name Zuiko.
no!!! 🙂
Congratulations from Ireland.
Congratulations!
Congrats! Was just for two days in Pau, and already missed my daughter …
Cheers
Congrats on your new bundle of joy!
Awesome news! You deserve the best and while you thought life was changing (+or-) last Christmas, wait to see how it changes (++) with your new cherub responsibilities! 4/3 rumors just gave birth to 1/1 Truths!
congratulations!!
Is that FT5 ? 🙂 All the best to your family!!.
Congratulations! Your life will indeed change.
Now, imagine all the new photo opportunities. 🙂
Congratulations !!!
Congrats! 🙂 One would think something had to happen after such an avid Olympus fan traveled to whereabouts of Olympia 🙂
Congratulations!
My daughter (my first child) is now 7 months old.
And by the way: She is the reason that I read this site every second day. I always wanted to leave the compact cameras behind me. And when I knew that I will become a father I decided very fast that to buy a G3. And so I came here…
Wish you the best.
Congratulations. Good Job!
No I understand why you left pyrenees in winter. .-) Only you the baby, a cow and a donkey would habe been too lonesome.
A little bad timing, could habe planned better. Sometime after CES…
Enjoy these days, birth and litle admin/admoiselle, nothing else matters
Does it come in black? 😉
Congratulations! 🙂
Congrats admin, I too will be a first time father (ETA December 16, and no, there will not be an “unboxing” video). Who knows, maybe one day our kids will meet?
Maybe 😉
Congrats to you too!!!
Congratulations!! These are the best news, enjoy it!!
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