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

Peter J. Alling Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:04:10 -0800

He calls the Digital Rebal and D70 Generaly Superior, by what criteria? Not by specifications they're not and in practice the Digital Rebal has nearly the worst viewfinder I've ever seen on a camera, (so a bit of hyperbole there, not nearly as bad as Rockwell).

Maybe my experience is limited but I've only been using cameras for 30+ years and I've handled and used some classic rf and SLR cameras. I have to admit that I've not even picked up a D70 but then I've said nothing bad about it. There enough untruth for you.

If you're in love with him, your welcome to read his site. I for one wouldn't trust a word he said.

I'll say nothing more on the matter.

Jamie Walling wrote:

I think you saying his site is 90% crap is indeed your
opinion and fine and dandy.
To say someone you do not know is dishonest and a
mindless twit while also your opinion is ignorant.
You say his review is dishonest.. but he even says in
his own review that "I haven't seen one yet."  Seems
pretty honest to me.  You are calling his review
dishonest only on the basis that he calls it a review,
but you have yet to point out one point in the article
itself that is not true.
--- "Peter J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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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