Kennyboy is the John Stewart of photography. He has said he does it for
laughs. Yet he sells himself as an expert. His advice to noob's is
often positively damaging, and he wants to be paid for it. I, on the
other hand, hang out here I freely give advice and don;t expect to be
paid for it, good or bad. I think he's repulsive and his work runs to
garish colors and bad composition, which you know probably would appeal
to the least common denominator.He's at best a hack and at worst a
charlatan. .I don't care how successful his web site is.
On 11/17/2010 1:07 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Nov 17, 2010, at 9:17 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
I only have one word for Kennyboy, and that's putz...
I invite you to produce a more successful photo website than his. At the very
least, Kennyboy is a well known, and successful putz.
As much fun as he is to make fun of, he is occasionally on target. After my
FZ50 was stolen, it was his piece on the D40 that eventually ended up with me
getting my K100. I was looking at the D40 and the competing Rebel when I heard
the salesman discussing the K100 with another customer, and I realized that it
had everything I liked about the D40 and none of the things I didn't like about
the Rebel, plus it was cheaper and had in body image stabilization. Likewise,
everything that he liked about his D40 applied to the K100.
Mind you, if I could have used my old AIS lenses on a D40 the way I can use K
lenses on a K100, I'd probably be shooting Nikon today.
On 11/17/2010 12:15 PM, Miserere wrote:
Well, in a roundabout way...
http://kenrockwell.com/tokina/100mm-f28.htm
Is the Tokina 100/2.8 macro the same as the Pentax?
He does, however, make a few Rockwellisms in this piece. He categorically
states that 200mm is better than 100mm because you get more working distance,
when I find that I'm often using my 50mm or 20mm rather than the 90mm either
because I don't have the room to be as far away as the 90 requires, or because
I specifically want the wide angle perspective.
[dons flame suit for mentioning the unmentionable name]
I think that he's very good at giving simple, easy to understand, advice to people who don't know anything
about photography. Note that I didn't say "completely accurate" advice. "A is better because
of B" is a lot easier to digest than "A is better because of B, except in cases of C, when D is
better, unless you're shooting with a flash in which case neither matters because the interocitor is
polarized anyways".
Going way off topic, In the same scene that the interocitor is mentioned, they
also mention one of these:
http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=604-1018-ND
Welcome to the 21st century.
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