So whats the deal with Ken Rockwell?

[otherprof]

Ken Rockwell is a douche canoe. Everything he states is personal opinion.

That's all you need to know.

You're welcome.

Agreed. But everything I state is the God's honest truth . . .

 

[Derrel]

Ken Rockwell is the FOX News of Photo related writing.
Here is a list of facts about Ken Rockwell:

• Ken Rockwell is the Chuck Norris of photography
• Ken Rockwell's camera has similar settings to ours, except his are: P[erfect] Av[Awesome Priority Tv[Totally Awesome Priority] M[ajestic]
• Ken Rockwell doesn't color correct. He adjusts your world to match his.
• 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 when he shoots a landscape - 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
• Once Ken tested a camera, he said I cant even put Canon on this one,thats how Pentax was born
• Rockwellian policy isn't doublethink - Ken doesn't even need to think once
• Ken Rockwell doesn't use flash ever since the Nagasaki incident.
• 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 wanted something to distract the lesser photographers, and lo, there were ducks.
• Ken Rockwell is the only one who can take self-portraits of you
• Ken Rockwell's nudes were fully clothed at the time of exposure
• Ken Rockwell once designed a zoom lens. You know it as the Hubble SpaceTelescope.
• When Ken unpacks his CF card, it already has masterpieces on it.
• Rockwell portraits are so lifelike, they have to pay taxes
• On Ken Rockwell's desktop, the Trash Icon is really a link to National Geographic Magazine
• Ken Rockwell spells point-and-shoot "h-a-s-s-e-l-b-l-a-d"
• 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's digital files consist of 0's, 1's AND 2's.
• Ken Rockwell never focus, everything moves into his DoF
• Ken Rockwell's shots are so perfect, Adobe redesigned photoshop for him: all it consists of is a close button.
• The term tripod was coined after his silhouette
• Ken Rockwell never produces awful work, only work too advanced for the viewer
• A certain braind of hig-end cameras was named after people noticed the quality was a lot "like a" rockwell
• Ken Rockwell isn't the Chuck Norris of photography; Chuck Norris is the Ken Rockwell of martial arts.
• Ken Rockwell never starts, he continues

I figure if a brand-new TPF member can dig up a four-year-old zombie thread for his VERY FIRST post, I might as well read through the old, dead, rotting post and quote one of the more enjoyable replies found buried inside the body of the zombie post...

 

[chuasam]

Nothing wrong with zombie threads. At least it is better than not using the search function.

 

[beachrat]

Enough of this nonsense.
Let's get back to beating up Ken Rockwell.

 

[table1349]

Even Better..........................

 

[Solarflare]

Ken Rockwell is the FOX News of Photo related writing.
Here is a list of facts about Ken Rockwell: [...]

• Ken Rockwell spells point-and-shoot "h-a-s-s-e-l-b-l-a-d"

Now finally I know how Hasselblad ended up making the Stellar.

They read a bunch of Chuck Norris turned Ken Rockwell jokes and thought they are serious.

 

[Solarflare]

What impressed me recently about Rockwell is how happy he looks in his test shots with the Ricoh Theta S 360º Camera ... he clearly is somebody who enjoys photography. A lot.

Cant provide a permalink, its currently on the top of his news page: Ken Rockwell's Photography News

 

[unpopular]

Running around on MIR with a Ricoh Thea? I'd be pretty happy, too.

 

[xenskhe]

Yep. That's pretty much all that needs to be said about the guy. He's a chump who pretends to know a lot more than he actually does.

Oh, and for all you new folks to the hobby; this is what old Ken thinks of you: How to Spot an Amateur

I like his articles such as the one you linked to. I agree with him I've haven't the impression he pretends much to know about more than he does. Sometimes I disagree with his subjective views on certain things, which is fine. I like reading it all and the web is better for it.