Allthough I do not like all of his writing, he is entertaining. And I like the guy.

Rumours are rumours, and the one writing the blog should decide which to post and which to not post. He should not even ask us, but when he did I followed my opinion, just like I vote everytime I can (which is not so often, as I am in China) YES you should post KR’s rumours.

P.S. To all the pixel-horny guys: Good luck with your photographing!

/S

If you read his site you note several things. From a technical perspective, he is very often spot on.

I have spent more than 30 years working in the scientific, scientific instruments and photographic industry, working for the police and forensic labs across Europe and, recently, in Australia, so have a broad range of experience to draw on when reaching that conclusion.

His technical comment and indeed views on how that then relates to ‘real world’ (i.e. not lab charts or conditions) issues that the photographer – amateur or pro – has to deal with or work around are in, most instances, factual and accurate – not to mention useful, to most of us anyway – if we open our ears.

Yes, some articles are outdated and no longer apply, but if you read them in the context of when they were written you find they are accurate. Further, it is his personal website; he does state that it is – in part anyway – written as a joke, a spoof if you will. Nobody is forced to go there and read anything he writes. He is free to write and you are free to read or not to read, should you so wish.

Incidentally, the entry above that refers to KR’s claims that RAW is useless – well, for virtually every photographer amateur or pro, he is completely correct – there is no logical reason to waste time or space – unless you have time and space and enjoy wasting them – by shooting in a RAW format. It is one of the largest ‘hoaxes’ ever in the history of photographic or scientific technical development and one which was created and is sustained and maintained by the large marketing departments of the software industry and naive collaborators in the photographic industry.

Before anyone corrects me on this I know many professionals making very healthy livings across the broad spectrum that is photography and almost all avoid RAW in the same way peoples in 14th century Europe would avoid the plague.

I do not agree with everything he writes and often, as one reads, one has to extract his opinion which, occasionally slips in, and sometimes floods in.

Similarly, I would caution people in respect of his views on anything third party. For example, with the technical advances and computer assisted design, there is, increasingly, no discernible difference between branded lenses and high end third party lenses (optically speaking), though in terms of handling and overall functionality there remains a large gap. The gap is in part due to the fact that a third party product is the love child of reverse engineering.

N.B. With the above I don’t refer to lab charts at 200% which is the lunacy that people get into. Would you take a shot of a beautiful model, mount it – the photo not the model – and look at it with a magnifying glass? No because that would make you as stupid as those people who lick grapes off the wall!

KR -genius or fool? Neither… just another voice!

That probably doesn’t bode well for the quality of his rumors but this is a rumor site, and until or unless it becomes apparent that his rumors are nothing more than the product of a fantasist’s overly fertile imagination, I think it’s right to link to them. I suspect most people on this site know his name and groan when they read it, knowing that most of what he says will be uninformed bilge – so they are free to treat the rumor with the contempt it will probably deserve. In that context, I don’t think it harms this website to quote him.

Who else has told you the D90 JPEGs are vastly improved from the D300′s (true)? Who else gives you the photoshop lens distortion compensation numbers and weather the distortions are lower or higher order? Whom pointed out that the MF Nikkor 50-500mm/f4 ED lens, the best example of Nikon’s solid mechanical engineering, would be the dream zoom lens for the D90 movies, which changed my mind to keep the lens after many changed their mind and come to me on the craigslist to buy the rare sample?

Wake up and get some live. Everyone is entitled their opinions even they do not resonant with yours. It’s a free world and even in China they have more freedom in the web forums.

Leping Zha, Ph.D.
http://www.lepingzha.com

his brain lives in the ’90s when mac was different

thom hogan is just like ken rockwell and hes famous for his “predictions” – if you check out his “predictions” and theres a LONG list of “predictions” and like 2% of all of it do actually came out. thom is famous for assuming too much. his camera and lens reviews is OK, just too technical rather than telling how great performer these tools are to create pictures…

now, okay, leave ken rockwell and thom hogan alone and let them enjoy themselves and… you… find something better to do!

Congrats! Now that you’ve had a pointless internet controversy with a strong splash of stupid moron trolling you can take a deep breath and relax.

Dude, without controversy sites like this (KR’s, Thom’s etc.) all wouldn’t be possible. These sites thrive on argument, and vehemence.

Don’t worry about a couple pricks unless you’re a balloon

Anyway he has been right more then he has been wrong with camera Rumors. At least he admits when he is wrong.

At this point is seems you are really desperate for clicks for ad money by even considering to give the criminal Rockwell liar attention on your site.
And listening to the masses often is not a wise decision, but as it is your site you have every right to promote the criminal Rockwell liar and thus further degrading the credibility of this site.
Once your site is history – and you are really! trying hard to speed that process up – maybe you will have learned that it is a difficult task to keep a good rumor site running and that it always is a mistake to give credibility to criminal liars like Rockwell who knows absolutely nothing at all about future Nikon products.
Once I thought your aim was to make a good rumor site – now I know you don’t care about but only want to make mone< from it.