I'm not missing any point. I did the same things when I wasn't running my photographic business, when I was working 90 and 100 hour weeks as an engineer in high tech and traveling three weeks out of five.
Suspect review opinions are, to me, simply poor information that does not help me select equipment. I don't care about it, it means nothing of any significance. Good information takes work on the part of the person trying to get it. More work for some than others, that's true, but there's nothing I can do about that. I spend quite a bit of time tracking down information when I'm doing research: my sources of informal review and recommendation are not so very different from anyone else's. I just push them harder and more aggressively when i want to know something. And I usually buy equipment LONG after it's been in the field, usually just before it has become obsoleted by successor products ... on purpose so that I have more information to learn with before making a choice. It is extremely rare that I buy products which are brand new in production. In your example below, how do you know the Canon produces poor quality JPEGs? DPR said the same of the *ist D, *ist DS and K10D. I know all three of those can produce excellent JPEGs. I don't know anything to proves the Canon doesn't with a knowledgeable user. I'm personally not concerned with novices and their issues: not that I don't sympathize, but they're not the focus of my comments. This mailing list was. People motivated enough to be participants on a camera oriented mailing list, such as this one, are not "novices". They may not be professional photographers, but they have much more knowledge about cameras than what I consider to be novices do. (The Panasonic L1 is a 7.5Mpixel resolution camera, with the first generation Panasonic NMOS 4/3 System sensor.) Godfrey On May 16, 2008, at 4:11 PM, John Coyle wrote: > Again, Godfrey, I think you miss the point. As a working > photographer you > probably have many more sources of informal review and > recommendation than > do others such as myself who do have to spend most of their time on > non-photographic pursuits, who live in an area where reliable photo > shops > are almost non-existent (there is only one in my city that I would > bother > with, out of a total of three camera dealers) and where the push to > buy > Canon first and Nikon second would be almost irresistible for > someone new to > the craft. > > I do not find specifications alone to be necessarily the best > resource for > decision-making, and I consider myself reasonably well-informed as > to what I > would like in a serious camera. The emphasis on pixel count for > example, > would steer a novice to the Canon at 12.2 megapixels against your > Panasonic > at IIRC, 10: but the Canon produces really bad jpegs, and it is > unlikely > this would be discovered by handling in the dealers. > > Regards > > John > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
