Hello from France

[Raphael]

Hello everyone,

I am a (relatively) new member of APUG, my name is Raphael (suprising, isn't it ?), I am 36, and I work as a computer scientist.

I am impassionated with photography since many years. Although computers are my scope, I have the annoying inclination to not act as everybody, I don't go digital and I prefer film cameras

I shot primarly in 35mm with reflexes, but as I become to be a sort of camera collector, I begin recently to use RF. I am fond of old "communist" cameras, like German Prakticas, or Russian FEDs, but I use Japanese reflexes too (Nikon and Fuji STX2).

I shot equally in Medium Format, with a venerable Pentacon Six, with Carl Zeiss Jena lens.

I own a (basic) darkroom too, I process my B&W film and prints myself, and I project to try E6 process in a near future.

So many APUG forums to browse, so little time...

Please pardon me for the possible English mistakes !

Best regards,

Raphael

 

[MattKing]

Welcome Raphael, from the west coast of Canada.

No apologies are necessary for your English. Despite years of classes, my French is terrible.

You will enjoy it here.

Matt

 

[Kino]

Hello and Welcome Raphael from Ohio, USA!

You sound like a perfect match for APUG; welcome aboard!

 

[Drew B.]

Welcome from New England...and hope you'll enjoy your stay.

drew

 

[thebanana]

Hi Raphael. Bonjour from sunny Manitoba, Canada! I'm sure you'll enjoy the site.
John

 

[Dave Wooten]

Raphael, welcome from Las Vegas...

 

[Bill Hahn]

Raphael,

Welcome, and please don't worry about your English....

Bill (also from New England...)

 

[PhotoJim]

Bienvenue à APUG. Il y a des discutations en français aussi, mais les mieux sont en anglais parce que la plupart des participants parlent anglais. J'espère que tu viendras à sentir que c'est un environ confortable pour toi.

Jim

 

[roteague]

Welcome Raphael from Hawaii. I'm sure you will enjoy our community.

 

[removed account4]

salut raphael ..

j'habite à rhode island ( pres de boston ). ma femme a habité en france dans une petite village prés du suisse - entre montbeliard et besancon ....

à bientot -
john

 

[Konical]

Bon Soir, Raphael,

Bienvenue d'Illinois.

Konical

 

[Sportera]

Welcome from Nueve Orleans. Les Bon Temps Roulez!

 

[Roger Hicks]

Bienvenu Raphael!

Malgre plus de trois ans en France, mon francais est encore affreux comme vous pouvez voir, et je vous felicite pour votre anglais. Le probleme, c'est que j'ecris presque plus les jours en anglais (voir www.rogerandfrances.com) et c'est difficile penser en francais -- et un clavier AZERTY est presque impossible apres QWERTY.

Vous habitez ou? Je me trouve pas loin de Poitiers, aupres de Loudun.

Amities,

Roger

 

[Steve Smith]

Since we're all showing off our French skills!

Bonjour de l'île du wight, sud de l'Angleterre. J'aime la France. La dernière fois j'étais là était pour le festival de guitare de Django Reinhardt à Samois (je sais. il était Belgian !).

Welcome to the forum where we can all learn English, French, Greek and Spanish..... and photography of course!


Steve.

 

[George Papantoniou]

Your Anglo-saxon trials on French-speaking are all soooo cute...

Steve, Django was not Belgian (he was born in Belgian territory...). Il etait Gitan (gypsy). Beethoven etait ne en Belgique, aussi, mais on dit qu'il etait Allemand... Bill Brandt etait ne en Allemagne (Hamburg) mais on le traite d'Anglais. Mais je pense que Django ne serait pas tellement content d'etre traite de Belge... Par contre, Philippe Catherine est purement Belge (et un tres bon guitariste, d'ailleurs).

Je suis desole, mais mon ordinateur Grec (avec logiciel Americain) ne me permet pas d'utiliser les accents (graves-aigus, etc)...

 

[George Papantoniou]

BTW, bienvenu (et pas bienvenue) Raphael a notre Forum des debiles pelliculomanes.

 

[ricksplace]

Welcome from Thunder Bay, Canada.

 

[Steve Smith]

Your Anglo-saxon trials on French-speaking are all soooo cute...

Yes. French words forced into English phrases probably! Still, it's better than not bothering at all.

Django was not Belgian (he was born in Belgian territory...). Il etait Gitan (gypsy).

You're absolutely correct. I was generalising too much.

I see a 'hello from Germany' thread has just appeared. I had better not try my German out as the only phrases I remember are 'where is the cat?' and 'the cat is on the table'.


Steve.

 

[PhotoJim]

Malgre plus de trois ans en France, mon francais est encore affreux comme vous pouvez voir, et je vous felicite pour votre anglais. Le probleme, c'est que j'ecris presque plus les jours en anglais (voir www.rogerandfrances.com) et c'est difficile penser en francais -- et un clavier AZERTY est presque impossible apres QWERTY.

Roger,

Peut-être tu veux essayer le clavier français-canadien... je trouve que ce n'est pas terriblement de different du clavier anglais. Toutes les lettres sont exactement ou un anglophone penserait qu'ils se situent.

 

[juan]

Welcome from Florida.

All of these attempts at French remind me of a French high school girl who came here as an exchange student. She was staying with my TV station's General Manager, and to occupy her, he dumped her off in the station newsroom. She spoke almost no English, and only one of us spoke any French. She was sitting at a desk looking bored and lonely, so I carried over my CD player, handed her the headphones and hit play.

"Oh, is French." she exclaimed. "Good, good."

"Can you understand it?" I asked.

"Yes, yes. Good French."

I was playing for her a Buckwheat Zydeco CD. I guess that shows that Cajun/Creole is still good enough French to be understood. Not so sure redneck English from the same part of the country could be understood by an Englishman. Ha.
juan

 

[Roger Hicks]

Roger,

Peut-être tu veux essayer le clavier français-canadien... je trouve que ce n'est pas terriblement de different du clavier anglais. Toutes les lettres sont exactement ou un anglophone penserait qu'ils se situent.

Merci Jim!

Cheers,

R.

 

[Steve Smith]

For those of you who want to type accented characters - look here: http://www.genealogia.fi/faq/faq008e.htm

For example: to type é keep the 'Alt' key held down whilst you type 130 then let go. As if by magic, é appears!

Apologies to those who already knew this.


Steve.

 

[pentaxuser]

Welcome Raphael. One of the benefits of belonging to this site is that you get a large and quick response to most items as you can see.

pentaxuser

 

[Bob F.]

Hmmm... Something odd happened there....

Anyway, welcome from London (I will not attempt any French as I do not wish to embarrass myself further....).

Cheers, Bob.

 

[Raphael]

Thanks everyone/Merci à tous !

Hello everyone,

I am very glad to see so quickly so many messages of warm welcome to this forum, thanks to all ! I am touched equally by all the people adding a few words in French for me, thanks you !

jnanian :
Bonjour John,
Merci, votre Français est excellent ! [I continue in English] : Montbéliard and Besançon are in a beautiful region of France, the Franche-Comté, and I am ashamed to haven't visiting it yet. I am sure there is many great photos to do here.

Roger (Hicks) :

Thanks you ! Oui, j'ai vu que vous etiez en France. Votre Français est tout de même très bon ! Je me trouve sur le point le presque le plus à l'ouest de France (îles misent à part) en Bretagne (Brittany) , près de Brest. Nous ne sommes pas encore trop loin ! De plus j'ai de la belle-famille pas très loin de Poitiers. Je suppose que vous connaissez le Marais Poitevin ? Please use English if you are more at ease with keyboard or language

George :

BTW, bienvenu (et pas bienvenue) Raphael a notre Forum des debiles pelliculomanes.

Quelqu'un qui utilise des phrases comme celle-ci à le Français pour langue maternelle, même s'il est a Athènes ! Je me trompe ?

Juan :

It is a funny thing ! The last time I saw a documentary with Cajun people on it, on the French TV, there was subtitles in French to explain his words ! But they (TV people's) have tendancy to add subtitles each time a person is not speaking a clear pure French from the Left Bank of Paris (with accents, for example) ! In the documentary, the man seems to be a true Bayou people, it can explain the very peculiar diction. A friend of mine said to me that some of the Cajun people of Louisiane emigrated from the French region of Poitou (the region where is currently Roger). In such rural area, people speaked during a long time a "patois", a French dialect with very peculiar figure and his own vocabulary, changing with the region of France. Even, at the present time, I have difficulties to understand certain persons from the "deep" Brittany

Ok, I stop here my gossip, and to be understand by the most, I use English in the future, but I will glad to receive private message in French, if some people wants to exercice their own !

Just a little question : is my e-mail visible somewhere ?

Thanks you to all for your welcome,

Raphaël