How dare you! :-)
Only DPReview is powerful enough to really give them a serve - remember the
fuss with Sony early in the NEX?
That said, they often miss things I consider important.
Consumer magazines are worse tan hopeless - camera, washing machine, it's all
the same to them and their reviews are often risibly unintelligent.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.soultheft.com
On 05/04/2012, at 4:19 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Actually, I never trust reviews in magazines, whether we are talking cameras,
> bicycles or anything else. I read them for information about features of
> products I am interested in, but for the real assessment you have to read
> between the lines. The reason is simple: most enthusiast magazines are
> financed by advertising, and nobody is going to bite the hand the feeds them.
> When I lived in the US, I relied on Consumer Reports which accepts no
> advertising, but of course it is a generalist magazine, so to an enthusiast
> its reviews of the products one is enthusiastic about will usually sound
> superficial--because they are written from the point of view of a general
> user.
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