[Leica] comment on camera reviews in general

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

>>It seems to me that the camera reviews from the UK appear to be a great 
>>deal more honest/ critical than those of the USA. Most of the stuff I've 
>>read from MY country is pure B.S. w/ a huge note below to "Buy it here"!  
>>What we need is less "Rah-Rah" and more objectivity. 
>>Bill

But even dpreview (which seems to be UK based in consideration of the test 
shots who come mostly from London locations), has a lot of buy-it-here 
links, too; and is in a certain way depending from the favor of the 
manufacturers. For instance, to get the news and the the free test cameras 
before the other reviewers. And thus even dpreview is tempted to praise 
almost everything. More than 50% of their in-depth reviews finish with 
"highly recommended". 

>(...) Websites like dpreview worry so much on whether or
>not they can see a speck of noise (which they seriously can't define)
>that they forget to tell us whether the camera is any good. (...)
>Dave

The noise is a problem of all small sensors, especially with higher ISO 
settings; but the way dpreview is giving importance to that particular 
point, let's me make a guess that they are strongly biased toward Canon; 
e.g. "Canon is better because their sensors make less noise".

dprev is only interesting for it's news and spec sheets. For reviews, I 
prefer luminous landscape, which has a more practical approach.

Didier