Not familiar with this Mr RiceWhine. I Entered: Ricewhine.com and got the following: "Ricewhine: This domain name expired on 5/04/2012 and is pending renewal or deletion." If this is your subject, I take it we're all glad he may be gone.(?) Jack
Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com ----- Original Message ----- From: P. J. Alling <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 7:28 AM Subject: Re: I had nothing better to do this morning... 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 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: P. J. Alling<[email protected]> > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:20 AM > 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 a lengthily search. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > -- Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthily search. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
