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Browsing a thread at DPR I noticed this post from Eamon Hickey, who knows Rob personally, mentioning the Nikon advertising that people are screaming about. It's just a little more info to take in:
On the advertising issue: if Rob were tailoring his editorial content to derive advertising dollars, he would not criticize any equipment manufacturer, and ESPECIALLY NOT the company that spends by far the most on camera advertising in the world (that's Canon, whose ad budget has historically been 7-10X larger than Nikon's). I can't speak for Rob, but I'm pretty sure he would be delighted to have Canon spend some ad money on his site. Several years ago, he did frequently have Canon advertising on his site (and no Nikon advertising). He's just not willing to hide the truth in order to get ad dollars.
Rob is the most straightforward reviewer of photography equipment in publishing -- he's willing to say on his site that a product doesn't work, even if that product's manufacturer has a big ad budget (and, again, nobody's ad budget is even close to as large as Canon's). He's also willing to praise stuff that does work, and he has praised Canon equipment very highly many, many times in the past. He's also been bluntly critical of Nikon gear in the past (and praised it, too, when it worked well). Nikon's top cameras now work better than they used to, so, for the time being, he's not driving Nikon as crazy as he used to. Rob has a 15-year publishing record, and it's easy to verify everything I've just said, if you're interested in learning anything about the man whose integrity you've impugned.
Now, none of the above means Rob is infallible. His judgments aren't guaranteed to be right; he's a human being and therefore subject to error. But his integrity is totally sound, and anyone who bothers to give his track record even a cursory check knows that.
Others have questioned his qualifications. Again, it just takes 15 minutes of research to find out that Rob has been a professional photojournalist since the late 1980s. He is one of the first dozen or so photographers in the world to begin working with digital cameras on a daily basis (in 1994), when he was a staff photographer at the Calgary Herald. He wrote the first book ever written on professional digital photography, and he became without question the leading consultant on digital photography for newspapers, magazines, and institutions all over the world. (And as such, he has always owned and used all brands of equipment that he might be asked to train clients on. For the past decade, that has meant Canon and Nikon; in the 1990s it was Kodak. He's an expert on all three systems -- one of USA Today's best staff photographers told me a few years back that among most of the pro shooters he knew, the standard answer to any technical or performance question about pro DSLRs was "just ask Rob.")
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