Hehe, got your point Larry but there's a difference between promoting the good things of a product (not stating bad ones) and bold lies. I'll add that politics lies are no reason to accept lies everywhere else except maybe if this is the world one wants to live in.
2010/11/4 Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com>: > > On Nov 4, 2010, at 2:52 AM, Thibouille wrote: > >> My take on this is the following: >> > ... snip ... > >> With reviews as they are done now (good or bad) the fact that some >> cameras (yes, Nikon being one of them but Pentax might be as well) >> display (always) Iso6400 but use Iso5000 is nothing but a lie. >> Of course the review favors the Nikon because High Isos are better. Uh... >> Strangely the accuracy of displayed values are almost NEVER tested. >> >> Same goes for max shutter speed. The rule was (I dunno how it is in >> digital age, really) that the the max shutter speed has the interest >> to garantee the the second one is indeed accurate. >> Even 10-15 years ago, Penatx cameras has a 1/100 flash sync which was >> accurate. Most competing Canikon cameras has a 1/125 sync but they all >> were in fact 1/100. >> >> Those are bold lies and should be presented as such. > > First you want honesty in advertising? What next? Honesty in politics? > Politeness on mailing lists? A Pentax with decent autofocus? > > > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs ---------------------- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ ... Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
