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Ken Rockwell is a lightning rod for anger from armchair shutterbugs who would rather shoot test charts than real subjects. People who actually shoot pictures can get lots of great info from his site. The article I linked to has some great examples of better ways to compose shots using an ultra wide. If you plan on shooting pictures with one, you might want to read it.
are you kidding me? he's the one who shoots brick walls to test his lenses.
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my point is that you can't rely on his website for information because it's next to impossible to tell when he's joking or not - he admits himself that he is sarcastic or joking quite often in his articles. there is one other reason i don't like his website, and that is because he insists "you don't need a tripod if you shoot digital" and that wide aperture lenses aren't useful anymore. are you serious? my tripod and 50mm f/1.4 are the best things that ever happened to my photography bag.
might be a good source of information for the soccer mom photographer, though.
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good point.
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He has a point. Tripods and fast glass were absolutely essential when shooting film since (A) you couldn't change your ISO at will and (B) anything much above ISO 200 (400 maybe) became grainy and crap. My simple D50 produces very usable results at ISO800, and Nikon's most recent offerings (D300, D700, D3) all have ISO3200 as good as my D50's ISO800. Add in the increasing prevealence of VR and for anything but fast-moving shots, tripods and fast glass become a luxury that 99% of people don't absolutely need.
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that's true, yes. but he needn't say that tripods and fast lenses no longer have a place, because that's what he actually says - "throw away your tripod" and "tripods are relics."
that's, i suppose, what i actually don't like about him - he does have good points in some of his articles, but then he goes on to insist that the way he goes about things applies to everyone. he comes off as very arrogant.
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that's true, yes. but he needn't say that tripods and fast lenses no longer have a place, because that's what he actually says - "throw away your tripod" and "tripods are relics."
that's, i suppose, what i actually don't like about him - he does have good points in some of his articles, but then he goes on to insist that the way he goes about things applies to everyone. he comes off as very arrogant.
That's not the message I pull away from his articles.
I wish there were more people who are as down to earth.
Ken Rockwell has many, many, many good points...and he kids around, a lot. You have to read his stuff carefully, to see if he is being serious or not. He writes stupid crap sometimes, but he can write a lot of good stuff, too.
He's like the people here who don't obsess and try to be logical about their equipment (like bigshot or monolith).
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