I will soon have a good reason to disappear for a few days :)
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!




admin
6 months ago |Maybe
Congrats to you too!!!
Oriol
6 months ago |Congratulations!! These are the best news, enjoy it!!
nikku
6 months ago |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?
Mika
6 months ago |Congratulations!
Cellardoor
6 months ago |Does it come in black?
beautemps
6 months ago |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
Bawide
6 months ago |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.
avds
6 months ago |Congrats!
One would think something had to happen after such an avid Olympus fan traveled to whereabouts of Olympia
Gerd
6 months ago |Congratulations !!!
Auntipode
6 months ago |Congratulations! Your life will indeed change.
Now, imagine all the new photo opportunities.
burmese_dude
6 months ago |congratulations!!
All the best to your family!!.
Is that FT5 ?
Phil A
6 months ago |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!
harnamsc
6 months ago |Congrats on your new bundle of joy!
shatteredsky
6 months ago |Congrats! Was just for two days in Pau, and already missed my daughter …
Cheers
Kenneth
6 months ago |Congratulations!
The Real Stig
6 months ago |Congratulations from Ireland.
admin
6 months ago |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
admin
6 months ago |DOn’t think you will see that kind of messy unboxing
admin
6 months ago |no!!!
jack
6 months ago |You should definitely make the middle name Zuiko.
Robert T.
6 months ago |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
Anonymous
6 months ago |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.
metalaryeh
6 months ago |Congratulations!
All the best to you and your family.
Aryeh
BdV
6 months ago |Haha! That’s cool! Really!
Theeky
6 months ago |Congratulations!
Abraham
6 months ago |Big congrats, this will be the best time of you life!
Chris K
6 months ago |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!
LeoLensen
6 months ago |Wow! Congratz!
marsupial2go
6 months ago |Kudos to GH3 baby. I wonder what a photog’s baby’s name will be…..
ramon
6 months ago |Congrats.
We’ll wait for you.
Anonymous
6 months ago |Congrats! and good luck.
Eric
6 months ago |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!
Paulus
6 months ago |Congratulations!
And all the best wishes!
Laurentiu
6 months ago |Congratulation. And I wish you girlfriend easy labor and a healthy and beautiful baby for you 2.
Paulus
6 months ago |Dear Admin!
Congratulations!
And all the best wishes!
salvo57
6 months ago |congrats!! best wishes from Istanbul : )
Anonymous
6 months ago |Honestly dude, drop the website, just post on dpr forum, and focus on the family
Daniel
6 months ago |Congratulations for the good news
Tim
6 months ago |Congatz!!! I hope you can keep up the work. Alot of nightly posts! Chrz. From Amsterdam.
uluru
6 months ago |Congratulations!
My best wishes =)
mike kobal
6 months ago |congrats to the whole family
N!co
6 months ago |Congratulations Admin !
I haven’t seen it in the 2012 roadmap. A wonderful Christmas gift !!
I wish the three of you the very best.
Is this child a FT5 rumor ?
Minstrel
6 months ago |Good luck and best wishes. Enjoy these moments…they’re special…and sleep when you can.
Tyson Robichaud
6 months ago |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.
t
Anonymous
6 months ago |congratulations. that must be the fastest baby ever
marco
6 months ago |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
Kev2
6 months ago |Congratulations!
Wei
6 months ago |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!
SSP Eric
6 months ago |Congratulations! Fantastic news — best wishes to you all…
Anonymous
6 months ago |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.
pbl
6 months ago |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.
Brubru
6 months ago |Congrats! Maybe we wont see you more than just a few days…
Harris
6 months ago |Congratulations!! That’s awesome news! Wish you guys the best…. what a gift for 2013, eh?
John Cantelo
6 months ago |Good to hear such good news (althogh your life will never be the same again!) Warmest congratulations to you both.
admin
6 months ago |Nope..cow photographer
Marcelo Guarini
6 months ago |Congratulations Admin.
My best wishes to you and to your family
BdV
6 months ago |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?
Robert de Buys
6 months ago |Robert Grant
6 months ago |Many congratulations!
Life’s greatest adventure is just about to begin, I wish you and your family nothing but health and happiness!
Bob B.
6 months ago |Good one!!! (FT5 not confirmed until birth is official!) LOL!
Dave
6 months ago |juuuuuuuhhhhh nice! my daughter is celebrating her first birthday on 02. febrauar! iam so happy
Robert
6 months ago |Congratulations!!! You have the best of all possible excuses. Enjoy life!
Mauro
6 months ago |Excellent news!
Congratulazioni
Paddy
6 months ago |congratulations!
waiting for your baby’s pic in few days!
Gato
6 months ago |Congratulations. Great news.
Peter Tsai
6 months ago |Congrats! That’s great news!
yun
6 months ago |Congratulations to Admin & future wife .
Hopefully things will back to normal once you have news for my dream cam , OMD Pro or GL .
pharine
6 months ago |FT5!CONGRADULATIONS!!!恭喜你!!!
eidrag
6 months ago |FT5? Congratulations! I’m very thankful to admin and other readers on this sites, sharing good news on m43. Hope nothing problematic on you!
Chad
6 months ago |Congratulations!
Genamari
6 months ago |Wow! It’s a great news for 4/3s fanboys also!
Congrats our web master and your (future) wife!
Nico Foto
6 months ago |Congratulations!!! I’m on the same boat as you!!! “Scheduled” for May, though!
stonebat
6 months ago |Congrat admin!!! Capture the moment!!! No flash. Use a prime
Hard2Xplain
6 months ago |Whoa!! congrat admin!!
I’ll give you a week to enjoy your new lovely creature!!
Pete
6 months ago |congratulations….
you just know that Olympus and Panny will release stuff at JUST the most inconvenient time now eh
Asdrubal Briceno
6 months ago |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
Rinaldo
6 months ago |Fortunately not a rumor post
Congrats admin.. you’re the man!
Sunny
6 months ago |I think it´s a little bit early for congratulations. But I send my best wishes for you and your girlfriend!
Eric V
6 months ago |Congratulations!!!
Hermann Behrens
6 months ago |I wish you mush luck with your baby and thank you for the great work with this website! Greetings from Bremen, Germany
Markus
6 months ago |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!
Smoke
6 months ago |That’s great news. Congratulations
eM
6 months ago |I suggest to call him/her GF1. And don’t forget to make a full lineup.
Theo
6 months ago |Van Harte gefeliciteerd, ook voor moeder de vrouw, neem je tijd.
Gabriel
6 months ago |Congratulations !!!
All the best with your family, and don’t hesitate to take time for it.
Tao
6 months ago |Congratulations. Thank you for your dedication… Take good care of your family. Enjoy life…
Rolf Silber
6 months ago |Congrats & good luck to your family!
Corbes
6 months ago |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 !)
Lawrence
6 months ago |Congrats! Mine is expecting soon too. First weeks of the new year that is. So I can understand how you are feeling right now.
fishy
6 months ago |wow, congratulations!
Michael Gerrard
6 months ago |Congratulations! That’s the best ‘excuse’ to have a break from this site
Bluebox
6 months ago |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!
Stageshadow
6 months ago |Best wishes from austria!
And good look for your future family!
R
6 months ago |Congrats admin! Hope everything goes painlessly!
Bronica
6 months ago |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!
kyle
6 months ago |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.
antonio
6 months ago |I figli sono la cosa più bella che possono esistere complimenti
Charles
6 months ago |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
Miroslav
6 months ago |Congratulations!
Well, in a few years time, you’ll have someone to work with you on rumors
.
Great news!
Max
6 months ago |Congratulation from Venice!
HB
6 months ago |Is this rumor FT5?
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
bart
6 months ago |Shouldn’t this be an FT5???
Congrats!
fan_guo_lai_xiang_xiang
6 months ago |Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
wikileaks
6 months ago |Congratulations!
My favorite W. C. Busch line for you:
Vater werden ist nicht schwer,
Vater sein hingegen sehr.
Enjoy every moment of it!
KI
6 months ago |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.
Ulli
6 months ago |I wish you all the energy needed to raise the little one, after that yuo will be ready for more!
TommyT
6 months ago |Congrats!
Carlos C
6 months ago |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
JimD
6 months ago |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.
Yeos
6 months ago |Félicitations pour cette heureuse nouvelle ! Beaucoup de bonheur à la famille !
Reader
6 months ago |This is wonderful. Life is a miracle.
Thank you for enriching all our lives with this site.
Richard
6 months ago |Congratulations and shouldn´t this be a FT5?
Bob B.
6 months ago |Take a week off…enjoy life!!!
Tinta
6 months ago |HEYHEYHEY, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
A child is more important than anything in life.
I appreciate your work, you deserve a peaceful family life.
DonTom
6 months ago |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.
Sven Delac
6 months ago |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
Esa Tuunanen
6 months ago |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.
admin
6 months ago |Ready to link you
admin
6 months ago |Danke!!!
admin
6 months ago |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
admin
6 months ago |ops…corrected
admin
6 months ago |Yep! For both, female and male as we don’t knwo what it is now
tomas
6 months ago |congratulation …did you choose the name ?
Duarte Bruno
6 months ago |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.
ObviousTroll
6 months ago |XOXOXO, congratulations!
Horaciux
6 months ago |Congratulations!!!
Saul
6 months ago |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!
Lift
6 months ago |So, the baby will be French I presume ? Félicitations !
ArKersaint
6 months ago |Congrats ! This is the best FT5 rumour ever provided and I am strongly honored with this sharing… All the best to both of you.
Christian G
6 months ago |Fantastic news, Ale! Congratulations!!
Bobafett
6 months ago |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 =)
Andrey Yashin
6 months ago |Congratulations! And try to sleep to sleep in store
thual
6 months ago |Congratulation ! Yes, it goes very very fast, enjoy your new life !
)
HMR
6 months ago |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.
Seb Farges
6 months ago |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
OMega
6 months ago |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.
jazzcrab
6 months ago |Oh, sorry, I forgot to log in… That is me!
Anonymous
6 months ago |Congratulations from me, too!
quiquelbola
6 months ago |Congratulations¡¡¡¡
Tropical Yeti
6 months ago |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 ?
YouDidntDidYou
6 months ago |Congratulations :-] (me too!) a new addition to the mft family…
Anonymous
6 months ago |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.
_katira_
6 months ago |Congratulations
Anonymous
6 months ago |pics of girlfriend or this never happened :p
congrats!
Robin
6 months ago |Congratulations!
Selwyn A.
6 months ago |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!
Mopix
6 months ago |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.
admin
6 months ago |Yep, I have the Nokton ready in my “emergency” bag
uiti
6 months ago |Congratulation!
Kid with Nokton 25mm will be great!!
alexander
6 months ago |good shot already happend…
Nuno Cruz
6 months ago |Congratulations!!! First shot of the kid with a micro 4/3 is a must!
alexander
6 months ago |!!! Congratulation !!!
Es was mit Hand und Fuss & das auf Anhieb!
Oly & pana-> take a look at it
Juraj
6 months ago |big congratulations, not to forget to take pictures
and thank you for you work…