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Subject: [OM] Re: New Test Site: SLR Gear
From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:25:40 -0400
Well, I wish them luck with *that* goal.

"I don't want to look at graphs!  Just tell me which one is the sharpest/best!"

ScottGee1


On 10/21/05, Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  From the interpreting the results section:
>
> We arrived at the multipliers by looking at best-case performance
> with the same lens on the different camera platforms. The scaling
> factors were set to make this best-case performance roughly the same
> between the cameras in question. As this is written in early October,
> 2005, our test platforms are the Canon EOS-20D and the Nikon D2x,
> although we expect to be adding a Canon 5D to our "stable" of test
> platforms in the not too distant future, and will hopefully begin
> testing with Olympus and Konica Minolta cameras soon as well. This
> means that numbers within a BxU unit or so of each other between the
> two platforms have to be considered as nearly equivalent. That is,
> it's meaningless to say (for instance) that a particular Canon lens
> tested on the EOS-20D and showing a best-case BxU value of 1.5 is
> "better" than a Nikon lens tested on the D2x body and showing a best-
> case BxU value of 1.8. For this reason, we show only graphical
> results rather than numeric ones, and actively discourage people from
> making quantitative comparisons between lenses based on our data.
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
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> >
> > Somewhere on their site, they say that is their intention.
> >
> >
> >
> > Winsor
> > Long Beach, California, USA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Oct 20, 2005, at 7:37 PM, ScottGee1 wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Perhaps if a number of people contacted DXo and encouraged them to
> >> support Oly, they'd be more likely to do so.  Nudge, nudge, wink,
> >> wink
> >> . . . I'll say no more!
> >>
> >
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