Re: Another quirktastic camera from Sigma.......
Johan Borg wrote:
The Davinator wrote:
Yes, we give perfect scores to cameras that the review points out weak areas. And then we claim some people dont "get it." LOL...that is fanboyism to the extreme. If that is something we need to get, find me a review site, here, or anywhere, that mentions weak areas and flaws, and then gives perfect scores. Check out the camera reviews here on DPReview. Find me a single review with a perfect score that has the reviewer mentioning weak areas.
I anxiously wait your links to those reviews. If you cant find one, maybe you and the OP can educate the reviewers at DPReview...so they can "get it" just like you do.
Dpreview has never given a camera 100%, so from that logic there should be no Gold Star cameras either.
Yet the overall score of Dpreview doesn't always match the sum of individual values. The Sony A99 II got 85% and a silver star, while a Fuji X100F received a Gold star for 83%. The Cons list mentioned anything from unreliable face detection to outdated video, but the overall grade is still Gold.
I'm not sure what these scores and awards are really for. They don't particularly useful because you can't just go on the scores alone. For me, scores would only be useful if they were founded on something solid and unmoving. For example if a reference camera were used as a benchmark and other cameras compared to that numerically. This of course would look silly as time passed. If were scoring against a Nikon D1x or something formerly state of the art, modern cameras would get scores like 753% or something. But at least it would still be an actual comparison. The way DPR do it mean that a score of 85% from 3 years ago doesn't mean the same thing as a score of 85% today - which means you can only compare the cameras used within a specific review which kind of makes scores at all pointless.
But that's the nature of the reviewing world - reviews don't get written to help me and you make decisions, they get written to provide reviewers with a product to sell. They just have to make reviews seem useful...