Thread 4452060

Why do we hate him so bad?

>>4452060 (OP)
Because he is honest

>>4452060 (OP)
Ken rockwell btfos most of the posters on p and they are incredibly jealous of him and the growth his family has experienced.

He's living proof a bad enough photographer can in fact make a $3199 canon R5 look like an iphone

He's on the record saying the Z8 wasn't good enough for him.

>>4452060 (OP)
did the last thread's discussion not satisfy your curiosity?
https://archived.moe/p/thread/4416240/#4416240

>>4452060 (OP)
You will only get cope from the kenlets.

>>4452063
Just imagine how bad it would've looked on an RP though
>Z8 wasn't good enough for him
Yup, he went from
>D40 is the greatest consumer camera ever and worth taking over anything else even for his own travels
>Nikon isn't worth owning anymore because the full area subject tracking is only 90% instead of Canony's 97-99%

>>4452066
And then one firmware update and $13,000 out of ken's bank account later, nikon got it to 97%

Z5II is the new D40

>>4452070
oh no

>>4452070
Gearfags are going to be so fucking mad when nikon updates the z6ii/z7ii firmware and improves the AF issues lol

I have no idea about anything and of this guy in particular, but the pictures he posts are so vomit inducing its unreal. like im not sure hes not doing that on purpose?

>>4452074
I was told by /p/ that it's not possible to edit poorly anymore so it must be the cameras he likes to use

>>4452079
It's not, if you follow /p/'s advice, which is
>Don't buy a sony
>Shoot raw
>Install capture one
>If you dont know what you're doing, only touch the exposure, white balance, and highlight sliders and then click auto levels
Ken on the other hand uses a bizarre fucking 50-program pipeline for jpegs

>>4452082
Don't forget, the sharpening radius should never be more than .7 unless you're printing

>>4452082
/p/'s advice is lately "buy a Sony" or "buy a GFX", "ergonomics don't matter", and "if your photos suck it's not you, buy a new camera"

>>4452089
have sex incel

>ergonomics dont matter
this is true. ergonomics are for the crippled. blobmeras are made under the assumption that all customers are employers or professionals.

>>4452060 (OP)
bc he's a hopeless aspie nerd who has too much gear and yet ruins all his photos with dumb decisions anyway, like the worst of the gearfags on this bored.

>I secretly dream of one day doing ass to mouth on the dick that smacked him across the eyeballs & made him need a 4000x saturation boost to his crappy jpgs to see color.

>>4452089
>Buy a sony
That's a solid decision
>Buy a GFX
That too.
>Ergonomics don't matter
You bet they don't. Ergonomics are for aging newsmen.
>if your photos suck it's not you, buy a new camera
Digital made this true. It was nice when it was a lie, but digital made this true.

>>4452066
It was something about the D800 that somehow made him turn 180 from Nikon shill to Canon shill
I mean the 5D mark III was pretty good but I don't think the D800 is somehow THAT shitty in comparison to completely flip him.

* Ken Rockwell isn't the Chuck Norris of photography; Chuck Norris is the Ken Rockwell of martial arts.

* Ken Rockwell's camera has similar settings to ours, except his are: P[erfect] Av[Awesome Priority Tv[Totally Awesome Priority] M[ajestic]

* Sure, Ken Rockwell deletes a bad photo or two. Other people call these Pulitzers.

* Ken Rockwell doesn't adjust his DOF, he changes space-time.

* Circle of confusion? You might be confused. Ken Rockwell never is.

* Ken Rockwell doesn't wait for the light - the light waits for him.

* Ken Rockwell never flips his camera in portrait position, he flips the earth

* Ken Rockwell ordered an L-lens from Nikon, and got one.

* Ken Rockwell is the only person to have photographed Jesus; unfortunately he ran out of film and had to use a piece of cloth instead.

* When Ken Rockwell brackets a shot, the three versions of the photo win first place in three different categories

* Before Nikon or Canon releases a camera they go to Ken and they ask him to test them, the best cameras get a Nikon sticker and the less good get a Canon sticker

* Only Ken Rockwell can take pictures of Ken Rockwell; everyone else would just get their film overexposed by the light of his genius

* Ken Rockwell's nudes were fully clothed at the time of exposure

* Ken Rockwell is the only one who can take self-portraits of you

* Rockwell portraits are so lifelike, they have to pay taxes

* When Ken Rockwell went digital, National Geographic nearly went out of business because he was no longer phyically discarding photos

* For every 10 shots that Ken Rockwell takes, 11 are keepers.

* Ken Rockwell never focus, everything moves into his DoF

* The term tripod was coined after his silhouette

* Ken Rockwell never produces awful work, only work too advanced for the viewer

* Ken Rockwell never starts, he continues

Anyone who replies to this post acknowledges that Ken rocks and denounces the talmud.

>>4452220
Inshallah

>>4452220
>Ken Rockwell is the only person to have photographed Jesus; unfortunately he ran out of film and had to use a piece of cloth instead.
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don't like his plain looking Web 1.0 site we aint about that nah we Gucci L website

>>4452744
Fuck your bloatware

>>4452744
The ancient web design is arguably the best part of it all.

Cause he's an annoying boomer. Plus he's Ebegging for giving misinformation. He's like a human DSLR and will be replaced exactly the same way by better reviewers

https://www.kenrockwell.com/analprobe/dissent.htm

Ken is based because he's going to tell you the truth, whether or not you're ready to hear it.

>>4453069
>better reviewers
Please point to one. Nah i'm not being a dickhead, I'd like to know. Ken's "everything is super dooper sharp, just shoot jpeg, saturation +7" nonsense I can do without, but his site is a convenient place to find basic information for gear. Some self-researched stuff like charts of IS effectiveness, practical coma tests, and distortion correction figures are rather useful. All in a simple webpage instead of some insufferable hipster-faggot youtube format.
>>4453124
>Ken is based because he's going to tell you the truth, whether or not you're ready to hear it.
>"This kit lens and T2i rebel is all you'll ever need! It's super sharp right into the corners and IF you're RETARDED enough to turn off corrections, there's a minor (insane) amount of lateral CA in the corners. Bravo!"

>>4453155
>What ken says:

>What ken does: The Z8 is not good enough for me because full area auto everything continuous AF has no mountaintop detection mode.

>>4453155
Phillip Reeve and Fred Miranda have the best text reviews for lenses.

>>4453160
That's actually one thing I think he's a moron for. Every review he does of basically anything is e-bay tier TOP MINT.
Product A is brilliant and all you ever need. But more expensive product B is so much better and why would you ever use product A. Rinse and repeat until he's reviewing a flagship, and he'll finally there admit where his tolerances lie:
>My R6 II is my favorite mirrorless camera. It handles great and its images are fantastic. You can pay a lot more, but you can't get a better camera overall at any price.

>>4453173
love his leica reviews though he somehow simultaneously comes across as typical leica boomer but also cynical poorfag in them. it's a skill.

someone post the phallus bit

>>4452071
tell me one thing wrong with this?

>>4453188
We all know the RP is simply an incapable camera, it was discussed in length her >>4450171

>>4453188
The canon RP cant do low light landscapes without a tripod, and carrying a tripod for a digital camera gives thots the ick. You have to shoot digital handheld. Tripods are only for old timey accordion cameras and hasselblads.

>>4453225
*cant do
*or it’ll look like a phone

for all the 30 year old millennial boomers who still dont know what phones can do

>>4453225
>caring what women think is based on 2025

>>4453197
yeah i dont think i wanna read all that it works fine and ops image is decent at worst

>>4453155
You're not ready to hear it.

>>4453197
Lmao you mean you're too much of a shit photographer to work around a cameras limitations. The RP is fine for most situations

>>4453276
See

>>4453225
>>4453227

The zoomer rizz experts are back in. If your camera doesn't have 15 stops of DR and 5+ stops of IBIS to handle contrasty, low light landscapes handheld, just use your phone. Tripods give girls the ick.

>>4453316
Isn't the RP's sensor the same as the 5D Mark IV?

That's what I don't understand, it's literally the same sensor but no one complains about it on the 5D

We don't. Mans put in the leg work.

>>4453480
No, same as the R. 6D2 has the RP sensor (and is a downgrade from 6D classic in some IQ aspects)

>>4453480
Also people don't complain as much with the 6D2 as they do with the RP because the DSLR user is usually more knowledgeable. RP is baby's first full frame.

>>4453520
Back when the 6D2 was current, everyone knew that only retarded "mommies with cameras" actually bought a canon for personal use. Everyone else used nikon.

Today, gearfags are so stupid they will unironically defend canon.

>>4453536
Sounds like you were underage back in 2017. American weddingfags in some areas in particular often needed to have a Canon for their clients to trust them.

>>4453554
>Americans (50% divorce rate)
>Weddings
So, the dumbest people on earth. In civilize countries like japan people were already shooting on sony. Then again, the japanese are highly intelligent. American photographers are 10 IQ points dumber and couldn't figure out how to make the skin stop turning green.

>>4453564
In Japan, MFT is still a success. And Nikon remains a favorite. Sony only dominated FF mirrorless but not even that anymore.

>>4453569
>In Japan, MFT is still a success
that's because japanese photography is mostly done by women
their tiny little yellow wrists will break if the camera weighs more than 300g so they have to accept the low quality grainy plastic photos

>>4453569
Canonsonic DYING OUT

>>4453579
Nikon will hit 100% market share in 2028 and be bought out by Hikvision India, and renamed to Nikvision.