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Hitler rants on D3X
Mitchell Brown, Photographer
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Walter Calahan, Photographer
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Westminster | MD | USA | Posted: 1:42 PM on 12.07.08 |
->> Thank you for posting this.
It points out just how ridiculous the rant against the Nikon D3X is.
With Washington DC printing money like it is going out of banking and insurance business style, not to mention conducting a war without any sacrifice by the American people, our dollar is becoming "play money."
The rest of the world has to increase prices because our dollar isn't worth as much as 8 years ago.
We are a credit card nation who has reach its maximum charge limit.
Once our deficit gets back to the 1999 level, perhaps camera prices will decline.
Meanwhile, the D3X is a hell of a camera when compared to the Canon 1D mk III. Canon and Nikon should be proud of their unique contributions to the photography industry. Sony, too, should be honored, even though their camera isn't in the same league. |
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David Sinclair, Photographer
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Baltimore | MD | | Posted: 1:45 PM on 12.07.08 |
| ->> Great timing ... especially on "Stalin". Genius. Amen. |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 1:53 PM on 12.07.08 |
| ->> that is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. thanks |
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Bob Nichols, Photographer
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Tipton | IN | USA | Posted: 2:14 PM on 12.07.08 |
| ->> Do not watch the video with any food or liquid in your mouth! |
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Kurt Vinion, Photographer
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Prague | -- | Czech Republic | Posted: 2:15 PM on 12.07.08 |
->> Not bad, but the best parody featuring this infamous scene from Der Untergang has to be the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RsQg1dnwiY
and if you can't handle foul language or have no interest in football don't bother watching it. |
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Andrew Scott, Student/Intern
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London | ON | Canada | Posted: 2:20 PM on 12.07.08 |
| ->> That was golden all the way through! They/he/she even worked in a Ken Rockwell comment haha |
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Michael Troutman, Photographer
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Carmel | CA | USA | Posted: 2:24 PM on 12.07.08 |
| ->> OMFG that is *OUTSTANDING*!!!!!! |
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Kevin Seale, Photographer
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Crawfordsville | IN | United States | Posted: 2:36 PM on 12.07.08 |
| ->> I failed to read the no food or liquid in mouth warning and now must clean my monitor!! That was outstanding!! |
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Eric Francis, Photographer
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Omaha | NE | United States | Posted: 2:40 PM on 12.07.08 |
->> omfg that was good........ and true
in the age of The Bild giving out cameras, cell phone video and pictures are "good enough"....... why do they keep giving us more and more resolution?
I say screw the pixel packing and give me more bit depth.
no hijacking here... just my rant.......
now back to your 5th viewing of the Hitler rant |
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Joel Kowsky, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia / Morris | MO/IL | United States | Posted: 2:46 PM on 12.07.08 |
| ->> Hilarious!!!! |
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Jack McCoy, Photographer
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Baldwin | NY | USA | Posted: 2:52 PM on 12.07.08 |
| ->> Speaking the language (German) I just couldn't get myself to laugh. I could see how it would be funny though. Good movie about the last days of the Reich. |
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Sam Santilli, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Philippi | WV | USA | Posted: 4:42 PM on 12.07.08 |
->> Not a follower of soccer, so the Nikon version works better for me. So does this mean that the D3 owners out there will not be dumping thier current model for the 8k version?
BTW....being part of the Axis, wouldn't Adolph get free gear from Japan??? |
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Steve Ueckert, Photographer
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Houston | TX | USA | Posted: 6:47 PM on 12.07.08 |
| ->> Stalin using film? I figured he would be using the Red.... |
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Robert Beck, Photographer
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Carlsbad | CA | USA | Posted: 9:23 PM on 12.07.08 |
| ->> That clip has been used for many such rants/debates over the past two years. It is old and tired. |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Live HVN : Work SFO-NYC | | | Posted: 11:20 PM on 12.07.08 |
| ->> Unlike Mr. Beck I had not see this before.......I just started eating a Milky Way bar and now have small chunks of chocolate on my keyboard |
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Tony Donaldson, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 11:55 PM on 12.07.08 |
->> That is a really, really funny use of that clip!
The original is a great documentary on Hitler's private secretary, Traudl Junge. Well worth a look if you're into history. |
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Ken Shelton, Photographer
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Wyckoff | NJ | USA | Posted: 12:13 AM on 12.08.08 |
->> Jack McCoy - You are the most Irish-looking Long Island guy I know. Speaking German ?? Please tell us how/why.
Ken |
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Patrick Fallon, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Columbia | MO | USA | Posted: 12:24 AM on 12.08.08 |
->> +1 For Actually watching the real movie "Downfall" [US Title]. Actually ordered the DVD from Amazon the other day as a Xmas gift.
Though I love the clip. Good use. Though he would have used a Lecica!!! Come on everyone! |
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Ken Shelton, Photographer
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Wyckoff | NJ | USA | Posted: 12:24 AM on 12.08.08 |
->> Robert Beck: Gee, sorry, the rest of us are not as cool, wired, or linked in as you. Someone was very creative with the current D3x topic and quickly made a very, very funny video.
Find another parade to rain on.
Ken |
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Eric Francis, Photographer
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Omaha | NE | United States | Posted: 12:44 AM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> Geez Ken...... I suppose now you're going to tell my kids there is no Santa |
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Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 12:46 AM on 12.08.08 |
->> That is one VERY twisted, VERY sick and VERY funny clip. However did it deserves a medal.
Or a 5D Mk2. |
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Robert Hanashiro, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | | Posted: 12:49 AM on 12.08.08 |
->> This just confirms that I'm not "as hip" as Roberto Beck... I had not see this clip before as well.
(Or maybe it means Roberto spends waaaaaay too much time on YouTube at night!)
I did received a very pointed email from a very good friend of mine that finds the clip and its use in various parodies offensive.
Oh well ... as I replied to my friend: I really needed a laugh. |
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Ken Shelton, Photographer
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Wyckoff | NJ | USA | Posted: 1:03 AM on 12.08.08 |
->> Eric: I want your kids to believe that there is a Santa and there is an Easter Bunny & there is a Tooth Fairy & there is a Robert Beck for as long as they can. Keep them as children as long as you can. Precious time that will steal away from you faster than you can ever imagine.
Ken |
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Kevin Clifford, Photographer
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Reno | NV | United States | Posted: 1:08 AM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> Wait...there's no Santa :( |
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Eric Francis, Photographer
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Omaha | NE | United States | Posted: 1:16 AM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> I don't know Ken, Santa and the like have been around a long time.... lol |
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Andrew Wilz, Photographer
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Aspen | CO | USA | Posted: 1:24 AM on 12.08.08 |
->> "there there.. i hear he only shoots JPG"....
ROFL.... awesome! |
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Robert Beck, Photographer
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Carlsbad | CA | USA | Posted: 2:58 AM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> That should be: "every one" not "everyone." |
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Myung Chun, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 3:07 AM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> That's pretty funny. I've seen all the variations before and I always get a good laugh from them. |
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Fj Hughes, Photographer, Assistant
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Baltimore | MD | USA | Posted: 7:51 AM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> I wish I could mark 'funny' and 'inappropriate'. It's inappropriate and that is why it is funny!:-) |
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Max Waugh, Photographer
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Bothell | WA | USA | Posted: 8:29 AM on 12.08.08 |
->> I've also seen plenty of these but thoroughly enjoyed this one. My favorite is still his rant about the Champions League final last year.
And, btw, Downfall is a great movie if anyone has an urge to watch the source material. |
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Jack McCoy, Photographer
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Baldwin | NY | USA | Posted: 9:47 AM on 12.08.08 |
->> Ken:
Just because you speak a language doesn't mean your a native of that country and are that ethnicity.
Lived in Munich for ten years when i was a kid. |
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Jeff Kowalsky, Photographer
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West Bloomfield | MI | United States | Posted: 10:10 AM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> I think it is hard to laugh at someone that had over 10 million people killed. |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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Live HVN : Work SFO-NYC | | | Posted: 10:14 AM on 12.08.08 |
->> Jeff,
I don't think it is that hard to laugh.
I am Jewish, I feel free strongly about the atrocities committed by Hitler and army. I also can find humour in this. I can find humour in the Family Guy when they poke fun at Hitler.
Look at the work of Mel Brooks. He is Jewish, yet Hitler has been used as a joke in many of his films, and it is funny.
-Fish |
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Walter Calahan, Photographer
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Westminster | MD | USA | Posted: 10:22 AM on 12.08.08 |
->> Why some people find this clip offensive is because Hitler and Stalin where two of the most evil men of the 20th Century.
These two were responsible for more mass murder, and the systematic destruction of generations of lives, resulting in terrible suffering never seen on this scale before.
Yes the clip is inappropriately funny, but be mindful that there are people who are members of this forum who had their families murdered by these two men.
To equate the pricing of a camera to the complete horror Hitler and Stalin brought to this world cheapens the lives lost in the Holocaust and gulags.
I do not find it cool forgetting a single life lost by Hitler. My Uncle Harry, God rest his soul, fought across North Africa, Italy, France and Germany to put an end to Hitler, risking his life to achieve that goal so we can live in freedom to make parodies.
What I find funny are those who still think the Canon 1Ds mk III isn't more of a waste of good money over the more expensive Nikon D3X. That's funny. |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 10:29 AM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> why can't we all just get along? if you read the message boards here, time after time people are ranting, raving and trashing the two systems this is a funny clip that BOTH camps can enjoy. for those offended, maybe you can take solace in the fact that if hitler were alive it would really piss him off to be made fun of in this simple, trivial way. I would also offer up the opinion that this clip might not be very funny to anyone who isn't a photographer...I'm sure many of my friends who aren't shooters wouldn't get it. again, mitchell, thanks for the posting. |
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Bradly J. Boner, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Jackson | WY | USA | Posted: 12:32 PM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> Robert - no one forced you to watch it. |
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David Seelig, Photographer
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Hailey | ID | USA | Posted: 12:49 PM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> Hitler made Stalin look like a gentleman |
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David Bitton, Photographer, Assistant
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Vancouver | WA | | Posted: 2:13 PM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> VERY VERY FUNNY! |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 2:33 PM on 12.08.08 |
->> I'm not Jewish, though I'm mistaken for one frequently. That qualifies me to have my own uninformed opinion on the subject.
Jewish entertainers tell "Jew jokes" all the time. Black entertainers use the "n" word. Few gentiles are allowed to get away with telling "Jew jokes" (or make joking Hitlerian references) just as few white entertainers can get away with the "n" word (unless you're Lisa Lampanelli). What does this mean? I have no idea.
First...this really isn't all that funny, is it? I mean...OK, yeah, I get it. And I'm the kind of guy who thinks South Park is funny. I just don't think this was all that funny (and I even truly get the Ken Rockwell joke, since Ken has been extolling the virtues of film of late).
On the other hand, I thought Dwight's adaptation of a Mussolini speech for the salesman of the year award on "The Office" was a classic...as was Seinfeld's "we must take over Poland" speech by Elaine's boss (don't quite remember all the details of that one).
The upshot to all of this? Some people are easily entertained. Others are easily offended. It's when you can do both that you are truly gifted. |
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Rachel E. Bayne, Photographer
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bellingham | WA | | Posted: 3:20 PM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> as a cougar... i gotta say that the 2008 apple cup/hitler clip is my favorite. go cougs! |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 4:03 PM on 12.08.08 |
| ->> Walter, you make a good point. I hadn't realized how ubiquitous this had become. I'd hate to see it turn into another "Rick Roll" phenomenon. |
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Daniel Putz, Photographer
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Jefferson | MD | USA | Posted: 4:13 PM on 12.08.08 |
->> I dunno Chuck. It could get bigger. I mean, a Nikon-sponsored team could have a float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...
And in case you were working, or living in an e-hole: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hqv6USkoU
Don't thank me now, pay it forward, etc etc. |
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Walter Calahan, Photographer
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Westminster | MD | USA | Posted: 4:50 PM on 12.08.08 |
->> I hear that Pol Pot almost sponsored the Canon 1Ds mk III.
The Hutu of Rwanda pulled out of the Sony deal at the last minute.
Have I told any of my Episcopalian or New Jersey jokes here lately? |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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McCall | ID | US | Posted: 4:57 PM on 12.08.08 |
->> Anyone know what movie it's originally from?
(I'm uncultured, I know...) |
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Walter Calahan, Photographer
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Westminster | MD | USA | Posted: 5:05 PM on 12.08.08 |
->> Keep this under your hat.
Only for us to know.
The Manzanar Concentration Camp Reunion is sponsoring the Nikon D3X in solidarity with Hitler and the Emperor of Japan.
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Now do you guys understand how rude the Nikon D3X rant can be to some people?
I now have NO sense of humor for the removal of my previous post!
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/ |
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