I understand the point you're making Mark. I just don't understand how you've acquired the data to support the conclusion you're reaching with regard to who make up the majority of the dpreview audience.
Whenever a friend or acquaintance (mostly total novices) asks me what digital camera they should buy, I send them straight to dpreview or Steve's Digicams, with the advice that it can tell them far more than myself about all the different camera models out there. They are universally overwhelmed with the amount of information. In addition, I don't interject my personal opinion on their purchasing decision, which gives them total freedom of choice, and me total lack of responsibility. :-) I also understand that not using the same lens is a variable, yet I find dpreview's use of the the faster standard view 50mm lens of each camera brand to be a classic way of testing. Though now, more than likely, the average buyer will have a cheap camera-brand-name zoom, instead of a 50mm prime. We can probably argue this back and forth either way. Not using the same lens intoduces a variable and can skew the results. Showing test results with a lens I'm unlikely to purchase arguably invalidates the results as well. Like buying a PC nowadays, a large % what were comparing is unnoticed or unnoticeable a large % of the time. Tom C. >From: Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Amazon buys dpreview.com >Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 12:16:50 -0400 (EDT) > >Tom C wrote: > > >>Furthermore, their emphasis on JPEG over Raw in their image quality > >>assessments is completely outdated now. It might have made sense years > >>ago, when Raw shooters were a small niche in the digital market, but > >>they're not any more. In fact, amongst the people who really *care* > >>image quality, such as DP Review claimed to be testing, they're the > >>majority. > > > >They're still the overall minority if I'm not mistaken. > >Yes, the overall minority. But not the minority of people critical >about image quality and not the minority of DP Review users. That's the >irony of DP Review: In both their emphasis on unaltered JPEG output and >their testing of cameras without eliminating the lens as a variable, >they're writing their reviews for average Joes who don't read DP >Review, rather than the people who *do* read DP Review. > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
