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Back in the old internet days, there was a camera review site that always took the same picture of some toys on a shelf. It was pretty boring photography, but d

Back in the old internet days, there was a camera review site that always took the same picture of some toys on a shelf. It was pretty boring photography, but did a great job a highlighting the difference between cameras.

zrail 5y ago
dpreview.com is still very much alive.
- dougmwne 5y ago
  Ah, thank you, haven't read one of their reviews in years. Happy to hear they're still fighting the good image quality fight.
  - tafda 5y ago
    Like IMDB, they have solid backing: “ DPReview.com is a wholly-owned, editorially independent subsidiary of Amazon.com.”
- kwanbix 5y ago
  Loved the knowledge of the community at dpreview, however, the software used for the forum was hideous. It seems they have changed it since last I used it.
- aaroninsf 5y ago
  This remains my favorite camera review site.
goatsi 5y ago
Arstechnica took a picture of a stuffed Koopa and Goomba in low light conditions with every phone they reviewed for years and years. It was great because they could put together a gallery of images to compare directly between phones. They seem to have moved onto some Ratchet and Clank figurines for the most recent reviews however.
- cptskippy 5y ago
  That always irks me about review sites.Anand and Toms hardware do similar things with hardware benchmarks. I understand that use cases and workloads change overtime so you need to change up your test methodology but there always seems to be a lack of continuity and instead an abrupt change over. I progressively upgrade my gaming rig and my video card is from the stone age (2017), when I eventually get around to upgrading I won't be able to compare it to newer cards. I'd like to see review sites progressively update their tests so you can at least track progress by comparing A to B to C to D even if you can't directly compare A to D.
stared 5y ago
https://www.dpreview.com/products/compare/cameras https://www.dpreview.com/products/compare/cameras and a few others (e.g. https://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM https://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM)
screye 5y ago
GSMarena still does this for every phone they review. They are the benchmark for phone reviews and technically reproducible experiments. Anandtech is amazing too, but they they have very low coverage over phones and are usually pretty late to the party. See links here: https://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=4&idPhone1=10906&idPhone2=10342&idPhone3=11044 https://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=4&idPhone1=10906... https://www.gsmarena.com/vidcmp.php3?idType=3&idPhone1=10906&idPhone2=10342&idPhone3=11044 https://www.gsmarena.com/vidcmp.php3?idType=3&idPhone1=10906...

zrail 5y ago

dpreview.com is still very much alive.

dougmwne 5y ago
Ah, thank you, haven't read one of their reviews in years. Happy to hear they're still fighting the good image quality fight.
- tafda 5y ago
  Like IMDB, they have solid backing: “ DPReview.com is a wholly-owned, editorially independent subsidiary of Amazon.com.”
kwanbix 5y ago
Loved the knowledge of the community at dpreview, however, the software used for the forum was hideous. It seems they have changed it since last I used it.
aaroninsf 5y ago
This remains my favorite camera review site.

goatsi 5y ago

Arstechnica took a picture of a stuffed Koopa and Goomba in low light conditions with every phone they reviewed for years and years. It was great because they could put together a gallery of images to compare directly between phones. They seem to have moved onto some Ratchet and Clank figurines for the most recent reviews however.

cptskippy 5y ago
That always irks me about review sites.Anand and Toms hardware do similar things with hardware benchmarks. I understand that use cases and workloads change overtime so you need to change up your test methodology but there always seems to be a lack of continuity and instead an abrupt change over. I progressively upgrade my gaming rig and my video card is from the stone age (2017), when I eventually get around to upgrading I won't be able to compare it to newer cards. I'd like to see review sites progressively update their tests so you can at least track progress by comparing A to B to C to D even if you can't directly compare A to D.

stared 5y ago

https://www.dpreview.com/products/compare/cameras https://www.dpreview.com/products/compare/cameras and a few others (e.g. https://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM https://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM)

screye 5y ago

GSMarena still does this for every phone they review. They are the benchmark for phone reviews and technically reproducible experiments. Anandtech is amazing too, but they they have very low coverage over phones and are usually pretty late to the party. See links here: https://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=4&idPhone1=10906&idPhone2=10342&idPhone3=11044 https://www.gsmarena.com/piccmp.php3?idType=4&idPhone1=10906... https://www.gsmarena.com/vidcmp.php3?idType=3&idPhone1=10906&idPhone2=10342&idPhone3=11044 https://www.gsmarena.com/vidcmp.php3?idType=3&idPhone1=10906...