Well, nice to hear him say that about Pentax, but what sort of credibility does someone have if they can write "Neither Canon nor Nikon ever made anything used by serious photographers".
It's this sort of thing that makes him such a total arse, frankly, in the way he blithely dismisses almost every photojournalist of the last 60 years as 'newsguys' and not 'serious photographers'. What a wanker. To say nothing of his assumption that amateurs are not serious photographers. If this wasn't a family list I'd call him a Gareth. -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Peter Lacus > Sent: 21 March 2007 22:04 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Facts about the PDML's favorite photographer > > > http://www.modestypanel.com/artorcrap/# > > > > I got 12/16, which was a bit disappointing, but I didn't understand > > that some of it was not art, and the pisspot suckered me. > > I scored 8/16, e.g. truly random, but I think they are all > crap in there > anyway. > > BTW have you noticed: > "Pentax' ads were cute, but very sad. Pentax has been one of > the driving > forces in Japanese photo gear for many decades. Want to know > what light > meter Ansel Adams used? He used the Pentax spotmeters. > > It's sad that Pentax has to grovel to Canon and Nikon like > this. Neither > Canon nor Nikon ever made anything used by serious > photographers, like > Ansel's light meters or the extraordinary Pentax 67 medium-format SLR > system which still creates images far better technically than > anything > from Nikon or Canon. Canon and Nikon have only made piddly > 35mm cameras > or digital SLRs used by amateurs and newsguys, not large > format gear for > serious artists (Nikon does make view camera lenses.) > > Pentax shouldn't have to supplicate itself to Canon and Nikon." > > these words wrote the same Ken Rockwell > http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/pma07-b.htm > > Cheers, > > Peter > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
