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doomisland posted:Yeah, it's just little light scratches. I have to assume it was the shirt or the lens was in worse condition when I bought it off Amazon. It was "New" but when it showed up it was an amazon warehouse deal. It looked fine at the time and they gave me a discount when I complained since I was heading out on a 2 month trip the next day. I'll try rubbing it again. Is there some kind of rubbing alcohol I can buy? Don't use alcohol, it can strip lens coatings. A few small scratches on the objective lens aren't too band, it's the rear element you don't want to get anything on.
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keyboard vomit posted:Don't use alcohol, it can strip lens coatings. No it doesn't. It's not the best thing in the world for cleaning lenses but stripping the coating off a modern lens would need industrial chemicals.
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doomisland posted:Yeah, it's just little light scratches. I have to assume it was the shirt or the lens was in worse condition when I bought it off Amazon. It was "New" but when it showed up it was an amazon warehouse deal. It looked fine at the time and they gave me a discount when I complained since I was heading out on a 2 month trip the next day. I'll try rubbing it again. Is there some kind of rubbing alcohol I can buy? Buy a lens pen and clean it with that if you are worried.. You won't see any difference in your pictures even if there ARE small scratches.
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Jun 5, 2016 05:43
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Lens pens are basically magic and everyone should have one.
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HookShot posted:Lens pens are basically magic and everyone should have one. Even the knockoff ones from China are pretty good, so buy several.
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HPL posted:Even the knockoff ones from China are pretty good, so buy several. I bet they come from the exact same factory.
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alkanphel posted:I bet they come from the exact same factory. Probably. I have both a genuine lens pen and a Chinese knockoff and they're both fine.
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Check out this sweet review of the Fuji 35 f2. http://www.kenrockwell.com/fuji/x-mount-lenses/35mm-f2.htm
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Wild EEPROM posted:Check out this sweet review of the Fuji 35 f2. 
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Jun 6, 2016 03:45
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Linking to k-rock should be bannable. 
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Ken loving Rockwell posted:To focus in Manual focus mode, tap your camera's AF-ON button What?
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Helen Highwater posted:What? Fuji's let you set a button on the back to AF even in manual focus mode. He wrote that in typical krock fashion though
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Jun 6, 2016 21:52
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Yeah that took me a second too 
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I just found out he has a twitter if you'd like to tell him what you think of him. https://twitter.com/kenrockwell
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Plz help krock.com
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SMERSH Mouth posted:Plz help krock.com My favorite is the picture of his Mercedes S550 wheel that links to a review of his personal brand new S550. At the bottom of that review... "Help support my growing family!" Base MSRP: $96k
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Captain Dilly posted:My favorite is the picture of his Mercedes S550 wheel that links to a review of his personal brand new S550. At the bottom of that review... "Help support my growing family!" Jesus. That's not a review, that's a cry for help. He compares it to offerings from other manufacturers at the end of the review. quote:Versus BMW
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Mercedes has never made a manual gear box that was okay and that should tell you everything you need to know about them
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Urge to punch k-rock right in his stupid mouth is rising. What a miserable rear end in a top hat.
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Helen Highwater posted:Jesus. That's not a review, that's a cry for help. He compares it to offerings from other manufacturers at the end of the review. BMW. Who cares? hahaha
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Captain Dilly posted:My favorite is the picture of his Mercedes S550 wheel that links to a review of his personal brand new S550. At the bottom of that review... "Help support my growing family!" KRock's doing just fine
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I have a rough idea of the community he lives in too based on all of the photos he takes, and yeah it's a multi-million dollar home in South Orange County. Yet still, please ONLY buy gear using the links on his approved list of vendors. Help him help you!!
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he's a dick but you gotta admit hes found a pretty good niche for wringing money out of people/amazon.
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Good for him because he sure as poo poo would never make any money off his garbage photos. All it cost was his dignity.
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I heard ken rockwell caused the water crisis in so cal.
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:he's a dick but you gotta admit hes found a pretty good niche for wringing money out of people/amazon.
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quote:Mercedes has always been the world's first and always an independent car maker; when you get a Mercedes, you're getting the real thing. how did he get to be such a canonphile if they didn't invent anything
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What does "Getting the real thing" even mean? Other cars are actually real as well.
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Fart Amplifier posted:What does "Getting the real thing" even mean? Other cars are actually real as well. I'm pretty sure that any car manufacturer you care to name has a poo poo-ton of patents under its belt. If you google Ken Rockwell, these are the front page results (after his actual site). 
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oh my god, that dpreview thread is golden. pretty sure this guy is krock himself "I absolutely love kenrockwell and think he is a God. He writes with SATIRE, something people who take things too seriously don't understand. His writing is excellent and honest. He'll say provocative things from time to time, but everyone is entitled to their opinion."
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Anyone who says "...but everyone is entitled to their opinion." is trying to justify some awful poo poo they said or with which they agree. Reasonable people with reasonable opinions don't need to remind people of their right to thought.
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I like Ken Rockwell's website. After the third or fourth superlative-laden review I read, I started to understand the bullshit weasel-word code that he uses. It's amusing. But yeah the entire kenrockwell website is a joke. At least his philosophy is consistent. Still, I'd imagine unscrupulous camera salespeople mine his rantings for talking points to justify ripping people off. "Only Canon knows how to make the special kind of glass that works with their sensors." On a completely different subject, I picked up a nikkor 24mm f/2.8 for my FE2 film camera. Somebody (ken..) told me that famous landscape photographer Galen Rowell used the same lens and spoke highly of it. But I thought that 35mm format wasn't all that widely used by serious landscape photographers. The examples of Rowell's work that I can find online are richly-detailed and technically excellent (if not exactly something I'd want to emulate) - surely he didn't use a 35mm camera to produce most of his work, right?
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Nope Galen Rowell shot 35mm. http://www.mountainlight.com/rowell/gr_camera_bag.html
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I have a rough idea of the community he lives in too based on all of the photos he takes, and yeah it's a multi-million dollar home in South Orange County. I think he's in La Jolla, San Diego
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Karl Barks posted:oh my god, that dpreview thread is golden. pretty sure this guy is krock himself The Another Angle link is better. It has examples of actual dumb stuff that K-Rock has said. About the A7RII (a $3,200, 42MP camera). quote:11MP is the lowest resolution setting. I usually prefer to shoot at around 6 MP for my people pictures to allow me to process more of them faster. Even with all the junk in the menu system, it only has three resolution settings. Good to know that no-one ever needs to buy a FF camera again. quote:The only real difference between APS-C and full-frame cameras is that full-frame lenses are much bigger and heavier, and that APS-C has more depth of field and full-frame has less. That’s what really matters; the pictures and overall operations outside of the extra A7R II features are the same. Pro-photographers don't shoot RAW because you can't send the pictures straight from the camera to your clients. quote:Raw is a waste of time and space, and doesn't look any better than JPG even when you can open the files.
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Judging by the last ~20 posts it looks like he has succeeded in exactly what he is trying to accomplish; getting attention and getting people to speak about him.
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The comments on that Another Angle link are awesome:quote:Never heard about asian size? Never saw asians? Ken Rockwell: He's Seen Asians
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Ineptitude posted:Judging by the last ~20 posts it looks like he has succeeded in exactly what he is trying to accomplish; getting attention and getting people to speak about him. Krock is the DJT of camera wankery.
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Helen Highwater posted:The Another Angle link is better. It has examples of actual dumb stuff that K-Rock has said. It totally leaves out the insane stuff though. Like "If you care about yourself, your friends and your family, you need to get your own Geiger counter as I did. Isn't your family worth it? " " When they want a baby, daddy will stick his pee-pee in mommy's mouth or in mommy's poo-poo hole. Hee hee, mommy and daddy think this is a lot of fun for some reason. " "Aliens who crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 were invited by the government to perform "research" on US citizens. The permission to perform these "experiments" was granted in exchange for technical and military secrets from the aliens."
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timrenzi574 posted:It totally leaves out the insane stuff though. Like oh my god i thought these were fake http://kenrockwell.com/ri/Where-Do-Babies-Come-From-Traditional.htm
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