Browsing thru lowyat.net and found this hilarious piece by a forumer. Thought I might share this with you guys. It's not everyday you can see a photography joke.. hehe
FYI, Mr. Rockwell does reviews on dslr, not only for nikon, but for other brands too. But he's known to be a Nikon guy in the photography community.
Those who wants to know more, checkout his site at http://kenrockwell.com/
Many useful tips too.. plus, if you are into photography, you should know this guy .. IMHO.
So.. here are the Ken Rockwell facts ! lol! - Ken Rockwell is the Chuck Norris of photography
- Ken Rockwell's camera has similar settings to ours, except his are: P[erfect] Av[Awesome Priority Tv[Totally Awesome Priority] M[ajestic]
- Ken Rockwell doesn't color correct. He adjusts your world to match his.
- Sure, Ken Rockwell deletes a bad photo or two. Other people call these Pulitzers.
- Ken Rockwell doesn't adjust his DOF, he changes space-time.
- Circle of confusion? You might be confused. Ken Rockwell never is.
- Ken Rockwell doesn't wait for the light when he shoots a landscape - the light waits for him.
- Ken Rockwell never flips his camera in portrait position, he flips the earth
- Ken Rockwell ordered an L-lens from Nikon, and got one.
- Ken Rockwell is the only person to have photographed Jesus; unfortunately he ran out of film and had to use a piece of cloth instead.
- When Ken Rockwell brackets a shot, the three versions of the photo win first place in three different categories
- Before Nikon or Canon releases a camera they go to Ken and they ask him to test them, the best cameras get a Nikon sticker and the less good get a Canon sticker
- Once Ken tested a camera, he said: 'I cant even put Canon on this one', that's how Pentax was borne
- Rockwellian policy isn't doublethink - Ken doesn't even need to think once
- Ken Rockwell doesn't use flash ever since the Nagasaki incident.
- Only Ken Rockwell can take pictures of Ken Rockwell; everyone else would just get their film overexposed by the light of his genius
- Ken Rockwell wanted something to distract the lesser photographers, and lo, there were ducks.
- Ken Rockwell is the only one who can take self-portraits of you
- Ken Rockwell's nudes were fully clothed at the time of exposure
- Ken Rockwell once designed a zoom lens. You know it as the Hubble Space Telescope.
- When Ken unpacks his CF card, it already has masterpieces on it.
- Rockwell portraits are so lifelike, they have to pay taxes
- On Ken Rockwell's desktop, the Trash Icon is really a link to National Geographic Magazine
- Ken Rockwell spells point-and-shoot "h-a-s-s-e-l-b-l-a-d"
- When Ken Rockwell went digital, National Geographic nearly went out of business because he was no longer phyically discarding photos
- For every 10 shots that Ken Rockwell takes, 11 are keepers.
- Ken Rockwell's digital files consist of 0's, 1's AND 2's.
- Ken Rockwell never focus, everything moves into his DoF
- Ken Rockwell's shots are so perfect, Adobe redesigned photoshop for him: all it consists of is a close button.
- The term 'tripod' was coined after his silhouette
- Ken Rockwell never produces awful work, only work too advanced for the viewer
- A certain brand of high-end camera was named after people noticed the quality was a lot "like-a" Rockwell
- Ken Rockwell isn't the Chuck Norris of photography; Chuck Norris is the Ken Rockwell of martial arts.
- Ken Rockwell never starts, he continues
by now you should be rolling on the floor.. or look up Ken Rockwell.. or look for meaning for the photography jargon.
