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Subject: [OM] Consumer Reports on stuff (was "broken DSLR" "toyota" etc)
From: "Joel Wilcox" <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:56:00 -0600
On Dec 19, 2007 12:35 PM, Chris Crawford <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I remember years ago when the OM system was still in production seeing
> consumer reports articles on 35mm cameras and lenses and they always rated
> Olympus lenses as average to below average in sharpness, with Nikon and
> Canon always getting the high ratings. I had Nikon and Olympus stuff at the
> time and remember thinking that CR must be biased or crazy cause I didn't
> see any superiority in the Nikon lenses I had compared to my Olympus
> equivilants (the 50mm f1.8 was one in particular I remember that CR didn't
> like from Olympus).

If we assume they were actually testing, it was probably that they
were only testing center sharpness.  Photodo did the same thing IIRC,
and as a result Zuikos came up shorter than in tests that also
factored in corner sharpness.

Joel W.

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