Scott Loveless írta:
On 12/4/08, David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Readers digest version of the site.
-Nikon rules
-Pentax sucks
-Canon does to
-Jpeg is good, Raw is bad
Over saturated photos are the norm
You forgot a couple.
- Pros use Velvia for absolutely everything, including portraits
- It's OK to "review" a camera that's not even available yet
- Call the latest Nikon entry-level DSLR a camera for idiots and then
recommend it to all your friends and family
Also there are Ken Rockwell facts:
* 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
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