Originally posted by apisto Realistically, the K-5, while a wonderful camera, if released in 2012, would not have recieved as high a score.
Not sure if this is true (although I suspect you are correct). For dpreview to be credible, they really shouldn't be using a floating metric, without re-scoring all the previous reviews. A few years ago they did revamp their whole scoring method which I guess is inevitable, and probably the right way to do this. Do the PF detailed reviews and ratings need to be derated, just because a newer product was tested?
(Consumer Reports seems to do this without any explanation -- you will see some products (electronics, cars, whatever) rated something one month, and then a few months later they move the scores around, up or down. I guess it is one way for CR to try to remain relevant.)
Anyhow, I want to believe that my K-5 would receive exactly the same score it did when first reviewed by dpreview.