Bill Pierce
Well-known
Just a quick note... All of us addicted to web reviews and tests of our gear should probably read this.
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/
Bill Pierce
Well-known
Here's a bookmark to the specific articles.
https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2016/08/pay-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/
https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2016/08/pay-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/
willie_901
Veteran
Even subscription gear review sites do not benefit from peer review and, or editorial oversight.
scott kirkpatrick
Member
reviewers who give you the details and leave out the irrelevant
reviewers who give you the details and leave out the irrelevant
Roger Cicala and Sean Reid (earlier post) have clear cut approaches to what they review and are not ashamed to tell you how and why they reached their conclusions. Sean's detailed methodology and template-driven approach gets a bit tedious, but he leaves you with data that is not available elsewhere. And Roger is quite delightful, especially when he takes some incredibly expensive camera or lens apart down to the smallest screws and connectors (and puts them back together afterwards!).
scott
reviewers who give you the details and leave out the irrelevant
Roger Cicala and Sean Reid (earlier post) have clear cut approaches to what they review and are not ashamed to tell you how and why they reached their conclusions. Sean's detailed methodology and template-driven approach gets a bit tedious, but he leaves you with data that is not available elsewhere. And Roger is quite delightful, especially when he takes some incredibly expensive camera or lens apart down to the smallest screws and connectors (and puts them back together afterwards!).
scott
Dogman
Veteran
I like to read the Lens Rental blogs. Amusing and informative. However, the technical stuff loses me. I'm one of those people who read camera tests by skipping to the end for the summary. These days, everybody's equipment is capable of making good pictures.
willie_901
Veteran
Roger Cicala and the Lens Rental staff are one of the few sources I trust. The others are more obscure... Photozone, LensTip end ephotozine. Another popular site is useful but I don't think it possible to mention it here.
When I'm interested in cameras' signal-to-noise ratios (which happens to determine their analog dynamic range) I look at Bill Claff's data. Claff does statistical analyses from unrendered raw files which eliminates the subjective effects of rendering . It's not that how rendered images look isn't important. It's that SNR can't be improved after the shutter closes. So for many aspects of IQ SNR is a limiting factor. DxO's data seems to be a lighting rod for controversy. I don't think their metrics are easy to understand. But I do think their data is useful and reliable.
When I'm interested in cameras' signal-to-noise ratios (which happens to determine their analog dynamic range) I look at Bill Claff's data. Claff does statistical analyses from unrendered raw files which eliminates the subjective effects of rendering . It's not that how rendered images look isn't important. It's that SNR can't be improved after the shutter closes. So for many aspects of IQ SNR is a limiting factor. DxO's data seems to be a lighting rod for controversy. I don't think their metrics are easy to understand. But I do think their data is useful and reliable.