As usual you miss or deliberately obfuscate the point.
Tom C. >From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >Subject: Re: Amazon buys dpreview.com >Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 11:37:50 +0100 > >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 >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
