CR has gotten a little better I think, but they have always
represented Joe Average in their approach to testing. Decade after
decade a low priced Chevy four door sedan was picked as the ideal car
with no clue about what enthusiasts might care about. The OM cameras
were down rated because their controls were different than others.
Different is bad and difficult. Sometimes they just lack of knowledge
of features and the market place as with their computer tests. I might
take their advice for an ordinary household item, maybe. Remembering
that dog of a best buy vacuum cleaner I bought on their recommendation.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / December 19, 2007 CE, at 10:35 AM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> I remember years ago when the OM system was still in production seeing
> consumer reports articles on 35mm cameras and lenses and they always
> rated
> Olympus lenses as average to below average in sharpness, with Nikon
> and
> Canon always getting the high ratings. I had Nikon and Olympus stuff
> at the
> time and remember thinking that CR must be biased or crazy cause I
> didn't
> see any superiority in the Nikon lenses I had compared to my Olympus
> equivilants (the 50mm f1.8 was one in particular I remember that CR
> didn't
> like from Olympus).
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