Ratings can be foolish to take seriously, especially at DPR. Those badges and ratings basically mean nothing, since DPR is so heavily advertised and supported by the manufactures. If you want honest opinions, get away from any forum and website that talks gear, and start viewing pics.

There has been strong and proven evidence presented, that DPR skews their opinions and review facts, and even places in-house shills into their forums to provoke dissent just before a major review. Those knuckleheads don't even know any better than to change the wording of those shills when it comes time to write the reviews. They screwed up review facts more than once, deliberately... and were caught doing so on a number of occasions. One such incident, they presented a two year old photo of a discontinued camera, and then passed it off as the latest review shot of the latest model camera from the same manufactuer... for comparison to the other latest models. They changed the EXIF in those Jpg shots ,and refused anyone to download the Raw file. When caught doing so, they admittedly re-shot the test file.

Once caught cheating, they can never ever again be trusted!

I will never bring this up again to these fine forums... and won't respond.
Snoop

Originally Posted by SnoopMacro Ratings can be foolish to take seriously, especially at DPR. Those badges and ratings basically mean nothing, since DPR is so heavily advertised and supported by the manufactures. If you want honest opinions, get away from any forum and website that talks gear, and start viewing pics. There has been strong and proven evidence presented, that DPR skews their opinions and review facts, and even places in-house shills into their forums to provoke dissent just before a major review. Those knuckleheads don't even know any better than to change the wording of those shills when it comes time to write the reviews. They screwed up review facts more than once, deliberately... and were caught doing so on a number of occasions. One such incident, they presented a two year old photo of a discontinued camera, and then passed it off as the latest review shot of the latest model camera from the same manufactuer... for comparison to the other latest models. They changed the EXIF in those Jpg shots ,and refused anyone to download the Raw file. When caught doing so, they admittedly re-shot the test file. Once caught cheating, they can never ever again be trusted! I will never bring this up again to these fine forums... and won't respond. Snoop

I've been on DPR for quite a few years. Its not my favorite place but there's lots of good info and some good discussions there.

I've found their reviews to be fair and balanced. I don't agree with them all the time but I have yet to see any "strong and proven evidence" that their reviews are skewed. I've seen fan boys in various forums get all agitated when one of "their" cameras wasn't rated high enough for them but I have yet to see any bias in their reviews.

For myself the only reviewer I fully trust is myself.

Originally Posted by divamum Interesting but... seems to me it's a little misleading to compare different generation cameras directly, since each camera's scale will be based on the way it was graded when it was released rather than going head-to-head as direct comparisons later on. So the 40d was stupendous when it was released but is lacking features made available in subsequent models. But thanks for posting - it is definitely interesting! ETA: Fwiw, I couldn't be happier with the 7d - it has exceeded all expectations in every way.

Quite true. It's an interesting chart though, especially seeing where the different manufacturers are, although there's been some issues raised about manufacturer support!

Anyway, I've moved on to a Canon 50D now and it's fantastic, so can concur with the rating. Fantastic body.

S