Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, That is true they do not want to offend the hand that feeds them, but magazines do not "jimmy" the charts. Pop Photo also did a article explaining why manual focus cameras produce sharper results which would have PO'd 90% of their advertising. I applaud them for this. Peter K - -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mrabiner@concentric.net] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 12:06 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] 50 1.4 Test Results Eric Welch wrote: > > 98% of all statistics are useless. My take on the testing thing: Photo magazines tend to not want to offend their advertisers so they jimmy the test reports so that everything averages out to being pretty much the same. This does not fare well for Leica which often require some more intensive financial planning. The ones I do like though are not the fake charts or lists but when one old photographer gets to use the thing for a few weeks and he tells us his very subjective opinions on things. This I can figure out and believe. Mark Rabiner