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Ken Rockwell has a rating of 2.83 stars from 12 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Ken Rockwell ranks 94th among Photographer sites.
Ken has been around for years and I always pop over to his site to get another opinion before I buy any camera equipment. I'm a Nikon user and I find his reviews pretty accurate so I do end up usually taking his advice. Never been wrong yet! His knowledge of the different models of Nikon lenses is invaluable and has prevented me from buying anything S/H that I regret. Keep up the good work Ken!
Ken's technical reviews *can* be good as long as he sticks to the facts and doesn't drift off into the lunatic fringe and injects opinions tainted by bias. He also pushes a lot of photo technique approaches that most pro photographers I've spoken with write off as rubbish, e.g., his assertion that you don't need to shoot RAW... all you need is JPG. I followed this advice many years ago and quickly came to regret it. So, approach his reviews with a great deal of caution... and be sure to look elsewhere for other info to be sure you get a good flavor of what you're trying to learn.
Ken's technical reviews *can* be good as long as he sticks to the facts and doesn't drift off into the lunatic fringe and injects opinions tainted by bias. He also pushes a lot of photo technique approaches that most pro photographers I've spoken with write off as rubbish, e.g., his assertion that you don't need to shoot RAW... all you need is JPG. I followed this advice many years ago and quickly came to regret it. So, approach his reviews with a great deal of caution... and be sure to look elsewhere for other info to be sure you get a good flavor of what you're trying to learn.
Sorry, but no matter what gear you are shooting Ken's anti-Nikon rant has cost him all credibility. Seriously Ken, maybe it's time to retire.
Ken is enthusiastic and very opinionated which is fine, hey that's a lot of what the internet is, but I had to deprogram for quite a while after reading his articles as a budding amature. Things like "don't waste time with RAW formats" hurt my image quality for a long time. I had no creative control over the image after capture and my subsequent edits ended up damaging the original image (jpg) or introducing such horrendous artifacts that the images were unusable. As a real estate photographer and astrophotographer, it would be unconscionable now to shoot anything but RAW as that is how the highest quality, most accurate images are produced from our limited photographic tools. I would never be able to sell a single image if I had continued to use this misguided advice and relied on a lossy format and limited exposures that don't represent the true dynamic range of what the human eye sees when looking at an interior space with widows. Now when I read Kens stuff it's to get a laugh at how wrong a lot of his posts actually are from a more experienced, holistic perspective. Ken has his place in the internet world, and as he points out every chance he gets, he's trying to make money, but seriously. If you are a photographer just starting out, take ol' Ken with a healthy heaping spoonful of salt. Ken comes off as presenting his reviews and advice as photography gospel which is just misguided and often horribly wrong. Read him if you want but he really got me off to the wrong start and I've learned so much more from broadening my search to professionals who actually make a living with the lens.
When i first started reading about and learning about DSLR cameras, this guys site would pop up a lot in search engines. At first I thought it was usefull because he had a lot of reviews about things I was looking at. But the more I read his reviews the more I started to really dislike his website. He rarely has anything good to say about any product. I have yet to read a real review instead just his opinion which I don't really care for. Someone please crash his site so it will stop popping up in search engines!
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