Originally posted by mee Rishi is very low on people skills... and rather high on arrogance. Interesting combination. But when you see that you can counter for it.. or at least ignore it knowing it is what it is.
But the review on the whole seemed fairly accurate to me... albeit I think they reached far for some of the 'what we dont like' in certain sections.
For instance, they don't like that there aren't more modern lenses for it... yet then complain there aren't enough compact lenses for it. Uhmmm... most modern FF lenses are not exactly what I'd consider compact. So I'm not sure DPRs angle there.
But that is not really a major situation.. most of the 'what we dont like' I didn't like either.
I think the issue is, a review site took the current flagship K mount body and put it through the ringer.. and there are a lot of emotions triggered here about that. When you have a relationship with a brand, it becomes a troublesome situation when that relationship is reviewed actively and potentially negatively.
DPR also seems to review with their baseline expectations to be a more all-purpose type camera. They are entirely judging on not the design and function of the camera as the manufacturer envisioned it, but on some all-purpose multi-functional view of what they expect in 2018 (time of this review) for a camera in that price range. So I can understand why they'd be disappointed..
Good points. Photography is an experience. Handling a camera, travelling with a camera, taking an image, perhaps participating in the image, developing it, viewing it. All experiences.
Many modern reviews pay little attention to this perhaps because reviewers who can do a good job of evaluating and expressing something so subtle are very rare. Statistical tests and grandly titled Lab Reports are the easy part, in fact. They are relied on far too much, imo. And many modern reviews are under the usual pressures of time and money from commercial sites for which any review is just editorial content to pull in the eyeballs and the click-throughs. This probably applies in spades to the Amazon empire.
That said, DPR’s actual findings are broadly in line with those from others, so far as I can tell. But the tone isn’t, of course. I usually find field reviews from actual users to be most helpful. So best to wait a few months after first release. The general performance of a camera can be guesstimated from the specs and maker’s history anyway. That’s usually not much in doubt, bar nuances.