I'll make one more point about credible product reviews, and then I'll put my soapbox away (for a while). When it comes to trusted sources of opinion, we favour those who can do what we ourselves are incapable of. I look at photos by Kenneth Sporsheim or Murray O'Neill (two radically different types of wildlife photography) using Pentax equipment and I have no doubt that my brand choice isn't the limiting factor for my own photography. If I didn't find Thom Hogan's photographs pretentious and artless, I would be less inclined to discount his opinions on the state of the photographic industry.
When we put our trust in the opinions of those who can generate charts that we are incapable of doing ourselves, not the photographs they create, I wonder what we hope to get out of the photographic equipment we buy. That's a personal choice, and I don't have the right to deride anyone for choosing to buy equipment based on lab results, instead of photographic images; but I don't feel like I'm missing out by not making the same choice myself.
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Originally posted by monochrome Do you suppose Japan arranged this or one of the Regional Distribution subsidiaries? If a Region, which one?
Even with my vast insider information
I am clueless. The biggest impact of the ePhotozine review will be on Pentax users who read this thread, so on a scale of unnatural disasters, this barely registers. I couldn't pass up an opportunity to show off, though.