Recently there have been discussions about the merits of one DSLR or another. DXO Labs has recently created a new website that will objectively allow comparisons of one digital camera next to others.
Visit:
www.dxomark.com
for more information.
Don Bryant
Ray,g'day Don
why?
Ray,
The answer to your question is implied in my original post.
Cheers,
Don Bryant
Yes, uh I mean I don't know. I'm sure I'm not sure now.Don,
What are you implying? Are you saying that the new website at DXO Labs will allow one to objectively allow comparisons of one digital camera next to others?
If that is what you meant to say, I am confused because it seemed to me that was what you said the first time.
Sandy King
Ray,
The answer to your question is implied in my original post.
Cheers,
Don Bryant
why?
why would i want to compare my camera, which i am completely happy with, to someone else's measure of quality?
why would i need to compare my camera with another?
perhaps it would be a good site to review if one wasn't sure which camera to purchase?
before rather than after the fact.
Hi,
Interesting, but is it just me, or is there one HUGE omission in the description of this whole test setup:
WHAT LENSES DO THEY USE??? :confused:
Unless they use top-notch / best performing prime lenses of each brand, the whole comparison and focus on controlling testing conditions is just useless...
I all to often see tests in photographic magazines of good cameras with crappy "kit" type lenses... I never understand why they do it. Why don't they use top-quality lenses? OK, you buy the kit with the crap lens, but do we really want to know the performance of such a combination, or the real capabilities of the camera in combination with a high quality lens?... I know what I want...
I find it completely baffling that they say nothing at all about the lenses they are using...
shh, quiet Marco, you can't question the veracity of something like this, well not without being ridiculed
Ray and Marko,g'day Marco
I'd also question the value of comparing cameras
i make no claim to understand any of what is on that site but i did attempt to read one of the articles comparing the final amount of noise present in a print from a top pro camera and a lower level camera, it kind of made sense that the higher resolution of the pro camera leads to lower magnification of noise, i think that's what it meant
anyway, i did a Goggle search to get an idea of the cost comparison between a pro and a consumer DSLR, the EOS 1D Mark III (i think this is the one in the article) costs more than 12.5 times the cost of an EOS 450D
i would like to know is it, or indeed how can it be, more than 12.5 times "better"?
Ray and Marko,
If you bother to take the time to read through the dxomark.com Q&A section all of these questions are addressed.
The technology developed by DxO Optics is globally accepted as the industry leader in measuring image quality. That technology is licensed and used by companies and organizations such as Kodak, Olympus, and NASA. If their findings aren't adequate or acceptable for your own use and questions then I suppose no information source will be.
Don Bryant
that's not what we are questioning
and don't edit my spelling
Ray,
Did you bother to read the information posted at dxomark.com? If not, why?
hehehehe .....
Don
Ray,as stated i read some of it, and i question the value of it for most of us
we all know a super duper pro camera with a full size sensor is "better" than a pro-sumer 10mP model, so what, most us have to buy what we can afford and make the best of it's capabilities
any thinking photographer knows there is always something better/bigger/newer/whatever
you have yet to seriously address any of my questions, apparently the best you and your friends can do is belittle, hence the miss pelt comment
Ray,
If you will take the time to read the material at dxomark.com your questions will be answered. In the context of your original post you questioned the veracity and relevance of the information at dxomark.com. I don't understand what your resistance is to reading the information there.
Your questions seem to have the intent of being rhetorical with the hope of eliciting an escalatory response from the readers of this thread. Why is that Ray? As long as you make these kinds of posts I won't take them seriously and chide you for doing so.
Don
so the great Don can't be questioned?
escalatory?
i was hoping to provoke a discussion on the merits and value, or lack there of, in the information, often unverified and misleading, offered by these websites
apparently i can't you seriously, pity
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