RichNY
09-27-2006, 11:22 PM
I often enjoy reading Ken's site as it contains some interesting information but lately he seems to be delusional in many of his rants.
Take for example http://kenrockwell.com/tech/image-stabilization.htm in which he touts the virtues of IS/VR. Most of this article is pretty straight forward until he gets down to the last photo comparison where he has you scroll over a picture to compare a D200 w/o a VR lens to a Canon SD700 pocket camera with IS.
Ken's pictures are a severely out of focus D200 photograph and a nice crisp SD700 photograph- both shot with a 28mm 1/4 second shutter speed. He proves a few things here- whoever took these shots is suffering from nervous condition or caffeine overdose because even for 1/4 second 28mm shots they show a complete lack of camera holding skill.
Second he tries to make his point by failing to take these photographs as any real photographer would- by increasing the ISO to give a longer faster shutter speed. Is it because he doesn't want to show the noise of a D200 compared to a Canon P&S or simply misleading to try to make his point that IS/VR is a good feature? (Something he could have accomplished without the way he went about it in this article)
Ken-Time to give more thought to some of your later writings; I really enjoyed your earlier stuff and your best writing is still to come.
Take for example http://kenrockwell.com/tech/image-stabilization.htm in which he touts the virtues of IS/VR. Most of this article is pretty straight forward until he gets down to the last photo comparison where he has you scroll over a picture to compare a D200 w/o a VR lens to a Canon SD700 pocket camera with IS.
Ken's pictures are a severely out of focus D200 photograph and a nice crisp SD700 photograph- both shot with a 28mm 1/4 second shutter speed. He proves a few things here- whoever took these shots is suffering from nervous condition or caffeine overdose because even for 1/4 second 28mm shots they show a complete lack of camera holding skill.
Second he tries to make his point by failing to take these photographs as any real photographer would- by increasing the ISO to give a longer faster shutter speed. Is it because he doesn't want to show the noise of a D200 compared to a Canon P&S or simply misleading to try to make his point that IS/VR is a good feature? (Something he could have accomplished without the way he went about it in this article)
Ken-Time to give more thought to some of your later writings; I really enjoyed your earlier stuff and your best writing is still to come.