DP Review's tests work fine for people who buy the camera body with the tested lens, and who never buy another lens. In other words, people who don't take advantage of the single most important characteristic of an SLR camera.
In addition to that, the camera buyer must never change the default settings, and never use RAW. If you're happy with that approach, fine. For me, it's completely useless. One might as well buy a simple p&s camera. John On Tue, 15 May 2007 23:01:41 +0100, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: "Dario Bonazza" >> Subject: Re: Amazon buys dpreview.com >> >> >> >> > OK, that looks like a good method for removing variations. >> > Unfortunately, it will also be completely useless for customers, as >> none >> > of >> > them will ever use that camera that way. >> >> Very few use cameras the way they are tested anyway. >> A good test removes as many variables as possible between the articles >> being >> compared. >> >> William Robb >> > > You both of course are correct, which highlights the difficulty in > building > and conducting tests that are universally meaningful to all persons. > > The best tests would include RAW output with the same sample of the same > lens on each camera body (accepting the variables induced by the > in-camera > raw processing and the post-processing .jpg conversion). They would also > then demonstrate the same, with a common lens(es) of that camera system > at > RAW, and same with .jpgs at the default setting. > > I don't see much point in conducting actual comparitive quantitative > tests > with the camera at other than the default settings as those adjustments > are > highly variable based on camera brand and personal preference enters in > quite a bit. > > I think dpreview has done a decent, if not not totally complete job, in > providing test results that can be compared. I consider a test image > made > with a same brand camera system lens that an individual is likely to > acquire, to probably be more meaningful to in the hand camera system > performance, than an image produced with a lens one is unlikely to own. > > Tom C. > > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
