[Leica] comment on camera reviews in general

[jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Didier,
Luminous Landscape is a very useful and informative site, but it is 
completely Canon centric, I mean, nothing else really matters to Mr. 
Reichmann...and therefore absolutely useless for camera equipment.
Jayanand

Didier Ludwig wrote:

>>>It seems to me that the camera reviews from the UK appear to be a great 
>>>deal more honest/ critical than those of the USA. Most of the stuff I've 
>>>read from MY country is pure B.S. w/ a huge note below to "Buy it here"!  
>>>What we need is less "Rah-Rah" and more objectivity. 
>>>Bill
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>But even dpreview (which seems to be UK based in consideration of the test 
>shots who come mostly from London locations), has a lot of buy-it-here 
>links, too; and is in a certain way depending from the favor of the 
>manufacturers. For instance, to get the news and the the free test cameras 
>before the other reviewers. And thus even dpreview is tempted to praise 
>almost everything. More than 50% of their in-depth reviews finish with 
>"highly recommended". 
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>>(...) Websites like dpreview worry so much on whether or
>>not they can see a speck of noise (which they seriously can't define)
>>that they forget to tell us whether the camera is any good. (...)
>>Dave
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>The noise is a problem of all small sensors, especially with higher ISO 
>settings; but the way dpreview is giving importance to that particular 
>point, let's me make a guess that they are strongly biased toward Canon; 
>e.g. "Canon is better because their sensors make less noise".
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>dprev is only interesting for it's news and spec sheets. For reviews, I 
>prefer luminous landscape, which has a more practical approach.
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>Didier
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