It's amazing you call him dishonest for expressing his opinion. Please search his article and find one factual error. And I mean a factual error, and not a point where you disagree with his opinion.
His site is opinion, it is editorial. Get over it. And I do read leica lists all the time because I love Leica's but try posting anything anti-leica. --- "Peter J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jamie Walling wrote: > > >WOW. It's amazing how defensive this list gets. > For a > >moment i almost thought I was on a Leica list. > > > > > You obviously don't hang out on the Leica list much. > > >It's also amazing how much people here slam Ken > >Rockwell about not including facts, and then they > > > > > We're not an authority publishing a supposedly hands > on review. He > reviewed a camera > apparently a number of cameras authoritatively > without ever having seen > them. That's like > doing anatomical drawings of an elephant after > hearing rumors of such a > beast. Totally > dishonest. > > >themselves do not tell the facts. Some general > info > >on Ken's site and this review in general (BTW ... I > do > >not know him at all, but have read his site for > years > >since I used to use Nikon MF and he has one of the > >better lens sections on the web) > > > > > For Nikon maybe. If he wrote a glowing review of a > Nikon product, would I > believe that either. Probably not. > > >He wrote this review BEFORE anyone had access to > the > >istDs. It is a preview, not a review. He even > said > >his opinion might change if he uses one. > > > > > He slammed it in a preview. He slammed Canon > cameras in previews. _I > don't care._ > The most you can do in a preview is list features > and give a first > impression. He went > a lot farther than that and regularly does so. It > wasn't billed as a > preview by the way, > he bills it as a test review, and I quote: > > "**Pentax *ist DS *istDS Test Review"** > > He should get a new headline writer. > Disclaimers on another page don't cut it either. > > By the way he now has a disclaimer on the main page > for this "review" > due to the "hate" mail > he's received. It wasn't there before. > > >His site is an opinion site, and he goes out of his > >way to make that perfectly clear. He also makes it > >perfectly clear what he is looking for in a camera > and > >that he is ONLY judging cameras based on what he is > >looking for in a camera... > > > > > Yes it is an opinion site. That becomes obvious > when you read it. > > >If you read his pages... based on what he is > looking > >for, the Pentax istDs does not cut it. > > > > > > That's not his recommendation. He doesn't dismisses > it just for > himself, he dismisses it for everyone. > Even if they are just starting out and don't have a > large investment in > other manufactures lenses. > Even if I didn't own a bunch of Pentax lenses the > *ist-Ds would be > viable competition for the > Rebel-D and the D70 which don't really cut it by his > criteria either. > (Ok, the Nikon cut it because > it says Nikon on the prism housing, but then he had > to ignore a lot of > other things). > > > > >FYI .. he gave the istD a favorable review when it > was > >introduced, and personally uses Pentax spot meters. > > >Hard to say he is anti pentax. > > > > > I don't think anyone said he was anti Pentax. I > believe the consensus > was that he was > in my words an opinionated idiot, but I'm just being > judgmental, kind of > like he is. > > >===== > >Jamie Walling > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage > less. > >http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. > During a war you get to drive tanks through the > sides of buildings > and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually > frowned on during peacetime. > --P.J. O'Rourke > > ===== Jamie Walling __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
