KR is a wingnut. He makes sweeping, sometimes self-contradictory statements, and people eat it up. He is popular because novices like simple, boiled-down comments about what to buy. Photography is technical and good photography very much so. But many beginners just want to dive in and the technology and selection can be overwhelming.


Thus KR has developed quite a following for making overly broad claims, and he ingratiates himself with the various retailers who get business from him. But if you've ever seen him talk (there are videos of him floating around online), he is all over the place. It's incredibly irritating to watch and doubly so to listen. Why should any of this be surprising? He tried to justify the use of a racially and historically insensitive term ("Oriental") to distinguish Canon and Nikon from Leica, and implied that "Orientals" can't make better cameras than "the Germans."





Anybody who actually cares to develop an understanding of photography knows that KR is a joke.





FWIW, I'd like to see him shoot self-portraits without a tripod. I'd like to see him use an 800mm lens without a tripod. I'd like to see how well IS works for him when he's doing an exposure longer than 1 second. I'd like to see him shoot macro of a dimly lit aquarium without a tripod. There are a zillion situations where a tripod is necessary, not just for sharp photos, but just to get a photo at all.