Dpreview REALLY scraping the barrel bottom now!
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From: nospam on 6 Jul 2010 21:33 In article <87d6b290-4c6b-400c-a859-dec4969f425a(a)b35g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, Rich <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dpreview's job is to sell, which is why Amazon bought them. really now? what does dpreview sell? if they really want to increase sales, they wouldn't spend 6 weeks for one single review. the group tests are new, well after they were bought.
From: John Navas on 6 Jul 2010 22:30 On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 18:29:32 -0700 (PDT), in <87d6b290-4c6b-400c-a859-dec4969f425a(a)b35g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, Rich <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Jul 6, 5:30�pm, LOL! <l...(a)lol.org> wrote: >> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:55:51 -0700 (PDT), RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >http://dpreview.com/news/1007/10070605superzoomgrouptest.asp >> >> Boy, I bet this part burns you to no end: >> >> "Despite entry-level DSLRs getting cheaper and cheaper the super zoom >> models are as popular as ever." >> >> LOL! >> >> Oh, and DO take note of this: >> >> "Compact Camera Group Test: >> SLR-like 'super zoom' cameras" >> >> I don't see "P&S" used anywhere in that heading, do you? >> >> LOL! > >Dpreview's job is to sell, which is why Amazon bought them. That may be the silliest thing I've seen you say. -- John "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." --Gene Spafford
From: John Navas on 6 Jul 2010 22:31 On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 18:30:59 -0700 (PDT), in <4b78f2f8-66dc-4a77-9e75-2f13199acfef(a)j4g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Rich <rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Jul 6, 6:44�pm, John Navas <spamfilt...(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: >> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:55:51 -0700 (PDT), in >> <a8449e9e-410e-451d-af4d-baa5ff2ba...(a)z8g2000yqz.googlegroups.com>, >> >> RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It's you that's really scraping the barrel. >> >> Do you really have so much free time that you have to troll incesantly >> to fill it up? >> >> >http://dpreview.com/news/1007/10070605superzoomgrouptest.asp >> >> � �Image quality: outdoors / daylight >> � �* Best of the bunch: Canon PowerShot SX 20 IS, Panasonic FZ35 > >Image "quality?" Is that what the examples in that group show? "Read 'em and weep." ;) -- John Buying a dSLR doesn't make you a photographer, it makes you a dSLR owner. "The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it." -Ansel Adams
From: Russ D on 6 Jul 2010 22:46 On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:31:28 -0700, John Navas <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: >On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 18:30:59 -0700 (PDT), in ><4b78f2f8-66dc-4a77-9e75-2f13199acfef(a)j4g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, Rich ><rander3127(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >>On Jul 6, 6:44�pm, John Navas <spamfilt...(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: >>> On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:55:51 -0700 (PDT), in >>> <a8449e9e-410e-451d-af4d-baa5ff2ba...(a)z8g2000yqz.googlegroups.com>, >>> >>> RichA <rander3...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> It's you that's really scraping the barrel. >>> >>> Do you really have so much free time that you have to troll incesantly >>> to fill it up? >>> >>> >http://dpreview.com/news/1007/10070605superzoomgrouptest.asp >>> >>> � �Image quality: outdoors / daylight >>> � �* Best of the bunch: Canon PowerShot SX 20 IS, Panasonic FZ35 >> >>Image "quality?" Is that what the examples in that group show? > >"Read 'em and weep." ;) The image quality in that FZ35 is really impressive for a super-zoom, even at high ISOs for the night shots. But with CHDK already in beta phase for the SX20 it would be a tough call on which I'd suggest for others to buy or to buy for myself. If there was no CHDK on the table it wouldn't be a contest, the FZ35 definitely. Buying one of each would be the only solution at this point.
From: nospam on 6 Jul 2010 22:58
In article <rlp736hhh6sbd9psb00kkl1nuut1m3tp75(a)4ax.com>, John Navas <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote: > >Dpreview's job is to sell, which is why Amazon bought them. > > That may be the silliest thing I've seen you say. then you've missed some of the better ones. |