It's obvious dpreview is "supported" by Canon - they're one of the biggest advertisers, IIRC (and they always make sure that Phil gets the latest Canon models to test, as soon as possible).
But apart from good marketing by Canon, I think most of the complaints are just sour grapes. Sure, Phil gives good reviews of Canon cameras, and they're almost always on his site ahead of reviews of other cameras released at about the same time. What else would you expect? The cameras get good reviews because they are good cameras - hard as some folks seem to find that to comprehend. And the timing of the reviews is partly because of the good marketing by Canon, but also because that's what most of Phil's readers are interested in. Again, not too surprising. On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 07:11:36PM -0700, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Which might lend some credence to recent reports that Dpreview is somehow > supported by Canon? > > Shel > "Am I paranoid or perceptive?" > > > > [Original Message] > > From: John Francis > > > >>Looks like Mikey's calling it quits on the SMP articles.. > > > > > > > >You won't be seeing anything from him on the dpreview site, either .. > > > > No - he's banned. > > > > I didn't see the posts in question, but reportedly he was warned > > by Phil about some negative comments he made about the Canon 5D, > > and responded with some gratuitous flameage. >
