RiceWhine isn't a Pentax Fan, he's just the opposite. Even his
favorable reviews are full of snark.
More importantly his math sucks. His methods are shoddy, his
conclusions are suspect, and I suspect that his mother dresses him funny.
For example his conversion of a Pentax 40mm f2.8 to a Canon FF camera.
He used the latest, and most expensive, 40mm, (with cosmetics to
complement the K-01), and extolled it's virtues. Crap, the sample
pictures were awful. That design was always soft in the corners on
24x36mm format. He would have gotten better results if he'd bought a
used a M 40mm since it's pretty much the same optical formula, and
would have maintained full aperture capability. His experiment proved
nothing except his own shallowness, and lack of historical perspective.
The fact that the 40mm lens on a Canon camera looked particularly stupid
is beside the point.
I've been using Pentax since 1974. Sometimes Pentax decisions infuriate
me, sometimes mystify me. Criticizing Pentax is one of the things I do
best. I still find it annoying that Pentax dropped support for the
mechanical meter coupling on previous lenses. Even Nikon still allows
that on the upper tier cameras.
On 5/30/2012 9:38 AM, Rick Womer wrote:
Well, I'm not among his fans, but will observe that (1) RiceWhine waits until
he has a camera in hand before reviewing it, and (2) he is willing--even
eager--to criticize Pentax, while Kennyboy thinks Nikon can do no wrong.
Rick
http://photo.net/photos/RickW
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From: P. J. Alling<[email protected]>
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Subject: I had nothing better to do this morning...
So I visited a few despised sites...
No link because I don't want to give him traffic, but RiceWhine makes Kennyboy
look like a super genius, or in other words, RiceWhine is an idiot. I can't
believe he's got a following. I really can't.
-- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid
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