Do people on websites just do this for hopeful popularity? Seriously, a review isn't a review if you are doing that and elaborating like 'Yea, i think this will be great because blah blah blah. It really is remarkable blah blah blah'. So it's basically a list of specs and dragging things out to sound sooooo sophisticated. Mislabeling for attention is really stupid.
New camera body 'reviews' = copied and pasted specs, nothing review-ish... why?!
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rs said:
That's pathetic since it isn't even a review. It's like if i were to make a video showing how to bake cookies but I'm just rolling the dough.
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No one complains when all the network news broadcasts cover the same world events and give their impressions and opinions of those events.
What do you expect, there is nothing more anyone can do, the camera isn't available yet.
Some have reviewed pre-production models but these may not be what the consumers get.
What do you expect, there is nothing more anyone can do, the camera isn't available yet.
Some have reviewed pre-production models but these may not be what the consumers get.
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Lurker said:
Exactly. Production models will not be available, apparently, until November. We are seeing isolated images from the pre-production samples, but imagine the screaming if someone tried to pass those off as the final word. Patience is a virtue, and in this case a necessity.
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You are not alone in this annoyance! Nothing worse in my opinion than going to a site and reading the specs while expecting a review. After a while of doing this you pretty much learn where the real review sites are that you can at least get some information. The better ones will at least tell you in the first few lines that they are not doing a review and are just giving the information.
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swiftrandomness94 said:
Unfortunately, this is the way it works - and it's even worse: The faster you are with publishing such a non-review, the more inbound links "first review up" you'll get and the better your google rating will be, at least for the first weeks or months. Search engines simply still cannot tell good content from bad content.
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forget the 7DII, this is true for most anything now. if you genuinely criticize something you are blacklisted, thus today, it is nearly impossible to find anything critical online. Read reviews for any new cameras, outside of the comments section, they are pretty much cut/paste jobs with a few superlatives and mild opinions tossed in.
It's pretty sad actually and makes the world a less interesting place.
It's pretty sad actually and makes the world a less interesting place.
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Here's an example, 14:36 of Tony Northrup clickbait on youtube about the Pentax 645Z.swiftrandomness94 said:
Don't click that link unless you really need to see a good example of a bad example.
The Z has popped up on my seriously contemplating radar, but boy and howdy it's a lot of money. Naturally I want to see every review I can find, I figured that with sand in my shoes, I'd even watch T.N..
He doesn't even have a camera. What of that review I did watch consists of his impressions of what the Z might be about. You get to see lots of TN in front of the video lens, live screen shots of a Z on his PC screen, watch as TN flips through a catalog.
The guy seems to really like talking in front of a camera.
This one is so much not about the Z but about TN, he didn't even include any shots of his wife.
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ashmadux
Art Director, Visual Artist, Freelance Photography
I agree with the poster.
Not sure if DPREVIEW started this trend, but they certainly mastered it. Thier "First Impressions" Review - even just in name alone is horses**T. Now i see other photo sites doing the same darn thing, and its crazy.
Imaging resource does the same, but they seem to be much more thorough than dp.
thats my 2c
Not sure if DPREVIEW started this trend, but they certainly mastered it. Thier "First Impressions" Review - even just in name alone is horses**T. Now i see other photo sites doing the same darn thing, and its crazy.
Imaging resource does the same, but they seem to be much more thorough than dp.
thats my 2c
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