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 Re: Opinions on Ken Rockwell? | |
Ken Rockwell can be helpful to beginners. He can continue to be helpful, guiding a particular demographic of shooters. An earlier reply mentioned soccer moms and football dads, which probably describes this demographic well enough.
Ken Rockwell, himself, has written that he uses “weasel words,” and as I remember, he described how to recognize, and read past, his weasel words. This seems honest, to me.
Ken Rockwell used to often add the disclaimer that “professionals, and “you know who your are,” can disregard parts of what he is writing, on particular subjects. This seems honest, to me.
Ken Rockwell dot com is a useful reference for older Nikon cameras and lenses. He used to post references that led to other useful websites, such as Bjorn Rorselett’s Naturfotograf, and Karl Grobl’s and Steve Cirone’s websites.
I will still refer beginners to Ken Rockwell’s tutorial article on using ultra-wide lenses. It is well-written for beginners, explaining this subject better than I can. An experienced photographer can forget how to “speak beginner.”
I might well have never started shooting Nikon cameras, had I not read what Ken Rockwell wrote about adapters, to enable using Nikkors on my EOS EF cameras. While it was my own further research that led to the Novoflex brand, it was Ken Rockwell that planted the seed of the idea. My wife could use AI and AI-S lenses on her employer’s D300s, and I could use them on my 7D. I became a dual-system user, originally, to economize, during leaner times.
Well, those Nikkors led to acquiring pre-owned film Nikon SLRs, which led to pre-owned, prior-generation Nikon DSLRs, which eventually led to a shift toward Nikon for birds and wildlife, in early 2018, when I bought a new D5. Canon is no longer my dominant system. I can credit/blame Ken Rockwell for this, though I have paid little attention to his photography advice since about 2011 or 2012.
Ken Rockwell is a successful internet personality, who has found his niche. I see nothing wrong with that.
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