Originally posted by Wheatfield I find myself in good company then.
Apparently reformed hackers are the best computer security people as well.
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Honestly, I think user reviews should be less technical than they usually are. A non technical review reaches out to the broadest base. As soon as the geek talk starts, there is a portion of people whose eyes glaze over.
For a review, just tell me how to use it and what it’s good for. Toss in personal impressions and call it a day.
I don’t need to know how to build a piano to know how it sounds or plays.
Yeah I can understand that mentality. Before I got into photography I was a reviewer of Mp3 players or 'DAPs' (Digital Audio Players), this was before smartphones really took off and became the logical choice for many as their main portable music playback device. Some of my reviews garnered attention in the 10's of thousands, I think the Sandisk Sport Clip was around 80,000 views on 'www.anythingbutipod' but alas that site and along with it the review is dead
With my reviews I tended to abstain from actually talking about the sound quality, I think a lot of that stuff is placebo (new toy syndrome) and subjective so would instead keep things simple and just talk in depth about features and what could be managed and what was missing. I think from that perspective is what made the reviews quite popular.
I'm not sure I could review a lens very well, but I could actually review a camera, in terms of feature set etc. Or something like my Vanguard Alt Pro 2 tripod etc.