The popular one

There are many vintage cameras that were popular back then and are still popular today (with the recent resurgence of analog photography among Gen Z and millennials, myself included in the latter). One of them is the Canon AE-1, and its siblings.

This ever-popular SLR camera sits at a place in the history of this technology where the design of the old times is still present, but the electronics are starting to become an integral part of how the camera functions.

I have not been very active writing on this website. But I have decided to start writing a bit more about random hobbies of mine.

In the last year or so, I started playing with old cameras, and with somewhat toxic chemicals … 😅

I do black and white and color development. I have a lot to learn about wet printing and enlargement techniques still.

I do not really plan to publish pictures I take, unless they are useful to illustrate something.

Lately, I’ve been dabbling into some “closer to the metal” kind of programming.

On most compilers (Visual Studio’s one for instance) it used to be rather easy to mix assembly code and C++ code using a feature called inline assembly where the ASM code will be put in a block (decorated with a special macro/symbol like _asm for instance), and when the compiler sees that, it will put the content of this “as is” inside of the compiled code.

My first real introduction with programming was with the C programming language, on a French website that was, at the time, known by the “Le Site Du Zéro” (think “The newbie’s website”).

At this time, I was in middle school, and I was pretty bored by it. It’s around that time that I started to have really access to the internet at home, and started spending a lot of time on it.