Avec tous les evenements a la maison, notre petite fille n'oublie pas de s'amuser ! Ici dans sa maison de carton. Premiere pellicule avec mon nouveau Leica IIIf et 50mm summitar.
Well with all the happening at home, my daughter makes sure she has a lot of fun !! Playing with her ‘house’ made of cardboard. First picture with my new Leica IIIf and 50mm summitar.
Ma fille Manon avec son petit frere ... Elle a tellement grandit depuis quelques jours ...
My daughter with one of the twin (probably Leo 
) … She grew so much in the past few days …
Voila l'arrivee tant attendu ! Leo et Nicolas sont nes le 19 Decembre. Tout s'est bien passe et tout le monde revient a la maison vendredi !! Joyeux Noel a tout le monde !
Well, this is it folks. The family has been extended to 5 ! Leo and Nicolas were borned December 19th as planned. Everything went fine and they both come back home tomorrow with my very courageaous wife. Something different is about to begin, very exciting !!
Happy Christmas all !!
J-7 avant le lancement ! Je ne peux m'empecher de vous montrer la photo en detail ... Oui il faut qu'ils sortent maintenant ! :-)
Well, we’re D-7 before the launch 
and I can’t resist to show you a closer look. Yes, they’ve got to get out ! 
Un peu la flemme de traduire sur le coup .. Ben oui .. Ca arrive ... :-)
Medium format photography has never been for me on the top of my list. I mean, I’ve read about it, about the larger negatives you get, the better contrast, but never gave too much thought. Oh these twin lens reflex look nice of course but they seemed a bit odd to use, not very convenient. And well, I was playing with my rangefinder anyway and very happy about it. Last week, a member on dslreports.com (cwnorris) offer to give his old Yashica Mat 124 to whoever is willing to pay shipping. This was on the Digital Imaging forum and not a lot of people are interested in film photography so the offer was there for me to grab. I thought to myself: "Oh boy, another old stuff which will end up in a box …" but I took on the offer. I received the package a few days later. To my surprise, this was a very nice setup ! The whole kit was in an old red steel box. The camera was in pristine condition ! I mean, no scuff anywhere to be seen. Lots of small accessories, leather pouch, a big flash from the old time, old battery, old lens cleaning solution and old cleaning paper !! Everything old but in perfect condition. I thought … Wow … This is nice !! But I really thought the camera would have a problem … Either a stuck shutter, slow speeds, some haze in the glass … I don’t know … Something wrong. Well I had to try right ? So I bought some 120 black and white film at my local store, read the manual, mount the camera on the tripod and shot with a release cable my 12 exposures (with Neopan 400 pushed at 800). Mostly of my pregnant wife and my daughter of course. They’ve been very patient by the way 
… I spent something like 30 minutes to learn how to load a 120 film on my reel (what a pain in the neck !! I’m getting better though) and developed the film as usual. I was getting pretty serious about the whole things since the speeds on the camera seemed pretty accurate from the sound of it. I took the roll out of the tank. First I had something on the negatives which was already surprising … But then they looked stunning !!!!! Actually, these were my best negatives ever ! Lots of contrast and details everywhere. Exposure was spot on (I didn’t use the camera meter, which is functionning, but my more reliable Sekonic …) … It was a pleasure to look at ! I told my wife I didn’t even want to scan them (was affraid to be disapointed …) but just frame a couple !! .. Anyway tonight I’ve spent some time scanning them (Epson 4490). Wow. This is what they were talking about … So much freaking details !!! Everywhere !! It’s unbelievable. Contrast is gorgeous ! I didn’t need to touch a thing !! I left the orange cast (I scan my black and white in color mode, just like everybody else I guess …) because I thought it added a "je ne sais quoi" touch 
… It’s difficult to really realize the details you get with the picture I’m posting. I’ll write some more on the experience some other days. But I wanted to share with you this new adventure ! The whole experience reminds me of the pleasure I got when I first handled a Leica. Some kind of mystiscm around the whole thing. Of course, I bought some more films. I won’t use this camera on a daily basis. But I think I’m gonna have a lot of fun to use it with my twins (due in less than a week !! Stay tuned !) and will try to produce some nice pictures … The whole experience is really refreshing for me !!!
A big THANK YOU to cwnorris on dslreports.com. I think you’ve started something !!
Ingrid, la meilleure copine de ma femme, est venue durant le week-end pour une surprise pour la babyshower. J'ai essaye de capture un peu de la complicite qu'il y a entre ces 2 meilleures amies. J'aime beaucoup cette serie de photos, tres tendres. J'ai utilise mon nouveau (oui encore un appareil ...) Yashica Lynx 14e et son 45mm f/1.4. Assez surprenant pour un appareil de 1968 ! La peloche etait de la Neopan 400 poussee a 800 developee dans du D76 stock. Ma nouvelle combo pour les photos en lumiere faible.
My wife’s best friend Ingrid (you know, my Japanese’s guide ) came for the week-end as a surprise for my wife’s babyshower. I’ve been trying to capture some of the intimacy going on between these two as Ingrid was trying to see the twins moving … Very touching series of pictures in my mind. Taken with my newly acquired (yes another new camera, when will it end ? 
) Yashica Lynx 14e from 1968 and it’s 45mm f/1.4 huge lens. Surprisingly sharp ! Film was Neopan 400 pushed at 800 developed in D76 stock (my new low light combo)
Il est toujours tres difficile de visualiser un sac photo quand notre magasin prefere ne l'a pas en stock. On ne sait jamais si il va etre trop grand ou trop petit. Ce site a test des centaines de sac en incluant des photos avec du materiel a l'interieur. Bien pratique !!! Ici: http://www.cambags.com/cambags_noframes.htm#canon%201d
We all know how difficult it is to visualize a bag unless going to the store and look at it. The problem is that most retailers don’t carry all kind of bags in stock and so we’re left with small pictures of bag on the internet … Well this nice WEBSITE has tested hundred of bags and posted pictures with gears inside them (DSLR unfortunately, but better than nothing)
I thought I’d share it with you …
Je viens juste d'acheter par le biais de http://rangefinderforum.com un superbe Kiev-4 qui est un appareil de l'ere sovietique. J'ai ecris un petit article (en anglais uniquement ... Je n'ai pas le courage de traduire mes articles comme vous avez pu le remarquer ...). Un appareil surprenant que je vais me faire un plaisir d'utiliser cet hiver !
I’ve just acquired thru http://rangefinderforum.com (Thanks to KragMeister for the fine camera at an excellent price !) a lovel Kiev-4 which is one of the finest FSU camera. I’ve played a bit this afternoon and wrote a small write-up about it. It can be read here
A surprising camera which is going to get some good use this winter !!
Voila mon entree pour le challenge PhotoFrdiay de cette semaine. Cette photo a ete prise avec mon ancien Contax G2 et son super cailloux le 45mm. Prise dans une petite boite de jazz, j'ai essaye de capturer la lenteur du morceau ainsi que le mouvement de la musique ...
This is my entry for this week PhotoFriday Challenge: Experimental. This was taken using my former Contax G2 and the super charp 45mm lens. It was taken in a small club while a jazz band was playing. I was trying to display the slow pace of the tune as well as the movement of music.
Je viens juste de lire la triste experience d'une personne qui essayait d'acheter un 5D chez PriceRitePhoto ... J'essaye de faire de mon mieux pour eviter a d'autre personnes de se faire avoir par ce magasin a eviter ...
I just read a very bad experience from a guy trying to buy a 5D from PriceRitePhoto … Well I wanted to do my share at propagating the story to avoid any other people to be scam by these people. You can read the story here
