Another quirktastic camera from Sigma....... Locked

absquatulate wrote:

Mackiesback wrote:

For the most part, the original review was fine, well at least the description was. You did a decent job of pointing out the shortcomings, and did a fair job of rating the seven categories. That is not the issue anybody has with it. The issue is that you have applied conditions to the star rating system, your own personal conditions, that effectively hijacks any reasonable meaning to the usefulness of the system. And that is the issue people are having.

I haven't hijacked anything, the review is a personal take on the camera, as all these reviews are, there are plenty of reviews on the net if you want to go and look at them, many of them missing some key points about these cameras, their IR capability being the most notable.

Its not that "these people" dont get it. I think we all understand what this camera is, we all get how passionate you are for this type of technology. Millier is right, it would have been a great thread or blog post or opinion piece. But by posting it as a review and hijacking the star system for your own personal tastes, it renders the star system meaningless, which is is not objective and frankly, pretty selfish.

Rubbish, there are all sorts of reviews on here you could tear apart, they're just opinions on how people feel about the cameras. Here's one, the guy gives the Sony A6000 1.5 stars because it doesn't have a feature he likes, seriously? where were you on this one?

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4039399

I could pull up hundreds of reviews with all sorts of quirky comments on here. Some consist of of one sentence, "great camera, love it!". At least I put some thought into mine, whether you like it or not. You're not the judge and jury on these reviews, they are what they are, just user opinions, not scientific and not monitored with strict guidelines, that's what the DPR Team is for if that's what you really want. Even they get shredded for the slightest comment if someone doesn't like it, talk about mountains out of molehills....

I didn't see that review, because it appears to have been posted in the Sony forum, where it belongs, and where I dont go. You, however chose to post in the open forum, lord knows why, and here we are. Had you posted it in the Sigma forum, I surely wouldnt have seen it, but I suppose you cant convert people to your favorite gear in a forum where they already have it. And in the process, you have shown more than one person that the star rating system is absolutely worthless, because of people just like you.  "Why are you picking on me when you could be picking on this guy" is not a defense, and really is irrelevant.

You have taught me something though, and its that when I see reviews, I should just completely ignore the star rating. Apparantly fanboys have rendered that meaningless.