Canon EOS 6D In-Depth Review posted

Noogy wrote:

Sorry that I find your review biased, almost jaundiced. Cameras take photos. It's all about image quality primarily, everything else is gravy. It is hard to find a camera today that can output a better image quality than the 6D.

On the basis of your review of the 7D, I purchased the 7D. Those were the days that you guys knew solidly what you were doing. You were then the benchmarking against which all other review sites were mere copycats. You were being referenced big time by tech sites. I run to DPR even for review of P&S cameras before purchasing in those days.

As cameras become more sophisticated and features become less traditional, you guys need to scale to the complexity and magnitude of these evolving changes, versus sticking it out with your conventional wisdom. What I find ironic is if you stuck it out most objectively with the most important aspect of conventional wisdom (which is image quality foremost), you would have come up with a more balanced review.

Specifically "In this low-light test the Canon EOS 6D compares very well to the Nikon D600 and Sony A99 - both of which use versions of the same 24MP CMOS sensor. It is clear that at default NR settings, images from the 6D are cleaner, less gritty but similarly detailed as those from the Nikon and Sony cameras. Of the three cameras in this comparison, the D600 gives the grittiest results, but in terms of detail capture, we'd be hard-pressed to say that it was any better than the smoother JPEGs from the 6D. The A99 gives similar results to the D600 but without the yellowish blotches of chroma noise which can be seen in some areas of files from the Nikon camera at ISO 12,800 and 25,600." Have you guys gone blind? The photos from both D600 and A99 looked downright noisy yet the language by which you wrote the report seem to mask or worse, skirt the obvious. How on Earth could noisier images be better because they had more detail? Won't it follow that the details you are talking about are necessarily noisier as well? Gosh. "Compares very well" is such an understatement, on the other hand. It is black and white better! The way you guys wrote that part makes me feel like you are so afraid to offend Nikon and Sony.

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