Originally posted by mattdm Seems to me that a lot of review readers show their biases too. Not to pick on you specifically, but, for example, the first page of the review says:
(Bold added by me.)
So, not only do they have nice things to say about the camera over Nikon, they very clearly talk about NR.
The introductory statement of the review even says "[we] found five reasons why this camera promises to be a big hit", and the article concludes with favorable comparisons vs. the Canon 40D. But this isn't apparently positive enough for everyone to jump to cries of "unfair!!!".
To me, it really appears that a lot of people are quick to cry "bias!" whenever a review says something positive about one of the big two brands (and, c'mon, be honest — they're the big two brands because they make freakin' good cameras) or when they mention a negative of the reader's favorite brand.
C'mon.
I don't see any bias here: they have a testing procedure and apply it to each camera. Fair enough, it's the rule of the game.
Reviews are prospective buyers's tools for comparative assesment of different cameras.
Now imagine you're a prospective buyer and want to compare 40D, E3, A700 and D300 to K20.
95% of prospective buyers will take the ratings and do the comparison: based on that, which one would you buy?
I don't work for Pentax but if I did, I wouldn't be pleased to see my latest offering trailing at the end of the pack in noise, color accuracy, DR, AF speed and overall IQ in jpeg... do people read Pop Photo and give it credit for its reviews?
Last edited by lol101; 02-14-2008 at 01:49 AM.