Originally posted by Tom S. People tend to accentuate the negative about things. If you build 100,000 cars and ten of them are lemons, you won't hear a thing about the other 99,990 - only about the 10 and how bad they are. Look at the threads on hot pixels in the K20D for proof of this.
It does pay however to look at what owners are saying about a product before purchasing to determine if a real problem exists and how pervasive it is.
Well there are _some_ people that pulls statistics, tests, opinions out of their rear entrance and write them here as facts to show how mad Pentax is. No names mentioned.
Also there is alot of pixelpeepers that are looking at "trouble" that is no problem if they did it properly and post it with topics like "THE WORLD IS ENDING!".
But thats how the digital era is. It was so refreshing the other day when I met up with a cameraclub from a town a few hours away that came nearby on a picnic. These oldtimers that acctually discussed photography and not pixels and difractions that means _nothing_. There was cameras ranging from compacts to hasselblads and noone had anything bad to say about any of them. They just discussed how to use them properly etc.
The forum & blog pixelpeepers are sad. But it's not unique for camera users. Computer users got the same when they got popular in the middle of the 1990ies. Before that, noone cared about tiny bits of problems, they used what they got and were happy about it. Forums makes people sit for hours and discuss nonexistant problems instead of being out taking advantage of or use their stuff in a way that works for them.