I've always felt CR's camera reviews to be naive. Also, don't like the idea of price being a component of the quality formula. That might, however, explain the Carl Zeiss "poor" rating.
Jack Davis________________________________ http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Cc: Sent: Monday, October 1, 2012 10:30 AM Subject: Re: OT: Consumer Reports "P. J. Alling" <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: >For just about forever, I've disagreed with Consumer Reports on >photographic equipment. Once Herbert Keppler wrote an editorial in Modern Photography asking its readers to warn their friends not to pay attention to Consumer Reports articles on camera equipment. This was occasioned by CR giving the Carl Zeiss 50mm f/1.4 lens a rating of "poor" (and not specifying what, if any, tests were done to reach this conclusion). -- 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. -- 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.
