Re: Lens Mount Progress

[Otis C. Wright, Jr.]

My experience is decidedly different over quite a long period and a wide 
variety of products.   In the  main, their valuing factors may have been 
different from mine, but I don't recall and instance were my experience  
differed significantly with their findings (I sure it happened but on 
the average...).

Guess P.T. and I would have done OK.

Otis Wright

T Rittenhouse wrote:

CR caters to P. T. Barnum's favorite customers.

Ciao,
Graywolf
http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto
----- Original Message -----
From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 7:54 AM
Subject: Re: Lens Mount Progress
 

I wouldn't put much stock in what CR says about slr's, or any other piece
   

of
 

photographic equipment.

I recall many years ago, they tested stereo turntables.  They basically
   

said,
 

for each model:  "They turn the record around and around.  When it's
   

hooked up
 

to an amp, and you put the stylus to the record, music comes out of the
speakers.  It appears very durable and well made."
By their test methods, a Panasonic direct drive deck tested about the same
   

"with
 

no significant sonic differences" to a Linn Sondek (I don't actually think
   

they
 

tested a Linn, but you get my drift).

CR may be great for testing refrigerators or pickup trucks, but I don't
   

think
 

they'd provide a report on photographic equipment that would satisfy the
   

needs
 

of an enthusiast.

cheers,
frank


Feroze Kistan wrote:

   

Has Consumer Report ever tested SLR cameras? Should be interesting if
     

they
 

did. We don't get the report this side, but if they can tell which is
     

the
 

bestest peanut butter in the whole wide world surely at least one camera
     

got
 

tested.

     

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