Ken Rockwells "best cameras"

[Garbz]

What makes you regard his lens reviews as useless?

Given several cases he's reviewed lenses he's never actually used you have to take everything on his site with a grain of salt. A review site which needs to be taken with a grain of salt is useless.

 

[unpopular]

More like one of those new agey salt lamps but with a burned out lightbulb than a grain...

 

[fmw]

He does make some sense though. He obviously has a preference for rangefinder cameras and there is no doubt rangefinders have better optics, particularly at shorter focal lenghts. It's hard to design a short lens that needs to leave room for a swinging mirror. My very favorite lens back in the film days was the Leitz 21mm for the M series Leica rangefinders. It was amazingly rectilinear and contrasty. It was a noticeably better lens than the Nikkor 20 f3.5. So I agree with him on that. As to best camera, I couldn't care less. I've always used what I liked and have never really had a bad one. His opinions are no worse or better than mine or yours.