Re: Ken Rockwell's review of the istDs ...

[Peter J. Alling]

His site shows up in search engines as test reviews.  That's dishonest. 
I'm expressing my opinion. His site is 90% crap.  Get over it.

Jamie Walling wrote:
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.

   

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