Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?
by formerly_proven on Monday May 10, 2021 @11:38AM
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DPReview seems to have rather balanced reporting (I'm not a regular reader), so they do seem to be at least somewhat independent of being directly sponsored by whoever they're reviewing at the time. Compare this to pretty much every photo-vlogger/blogger/grammer out there, which have massive audiences while making unclear claims of independence and un-biasedness while shilling very hard.
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Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?
by ben7799 on Monday May 10, 2021 @02:10PM
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DPreview was owned by Amazon last time I looked. They exist mostly to pump up the camera market and generate sales.
Their writing is very much in the vein of "your gear is inadequate if a new version has come out."
They are really the bottom of the barrel. They continually write about how some new piece of gear is so revolutionary because it allows you to take a particular photo and it was impossible before, as long as you didn't know about the 50-100 year old technique to get around the issue that actually works better even if you have the brand new camera.
Re:Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?
by cratermoon on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:03PM
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> DPReview seems to have rather balanced reporting
It's big enough and has a diverse enough community that it can avoid the worst excesses of pay-per-review.