Why did the professional camera reviewers totally miss a serious flaw in the camera?

Posted by Jeanette Guire on October 15, 2007, 10:45 am

I'm curious why the following three camera reviewers totally missed a very
serious and obvious flaw in the Nikon Coolpix camera lineup.

The flaw is the infamous Nikon coolpix flimsy battery door latch molded as
a thin, easily broken loop of plastic on the coolpix camera body. The fix
has been described in various ways by various users in other threads. The
fix isn't the point of this thread.

DPREVIEW didn't even test camera integrity:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikoncp3100/

DCRESOURCE totally missed the mark:
http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/nikon/coolpix3100-review/

STEVE'S DIGICAMS was clueless:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/nikon3100.html

The question I am incensed about and very curious about is how could the
reviewers I trusted have been so inanely incompetent to have totally missed
the fact the camera would inevitably turn into a brick due to the obvious
poor engineering that wasn't visible to the consumer but which should have
been wholly obvious to the "professional" camera reviewer?

Is it that the reviewers are:
- Paid by the camera manufacturers to tout their products?
- Paid by the advertisers to tout the manufacturer's products?
- Clueless?
- ??? or ???

Posted by Eric on October 15, 2007, 12:09 pm

I'm curious what this has to do with home repair?

> I'm curious why...

Posted by Charles on October 15, 2007, 12:12 pm

wrote:

>I'm curious what this has to do with home repair?

>> I'm curious why...

You have to repair the camera when you get it home.

Posted by Brendan Gillatt on October 15, 2007, 12:42 pm

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Jeanette Guire wrote:

> I'm curious why the following three camera reviewers totally missed a very
> serious and obvious flaw in the Nikon Coolpix camera lineup.
>
> The flaw is the infamous Nikon coolpix flimsy battery door latch molded as
> a thin, easily broken loop of plastic on the coolpix camera body. The fix
> has been described in various ways by various users in other threads. The
> fix isn't the point of this thread.
>
> DPREVIEW didn't even test camera integrity:
> http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikoncp3100/
>
> DCRESOURCE totally missed the mark:
> http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/nikon/coolpix3100-review/
>
> STEVE'S DIGICAMS was clueless:
> http://www.steves-digicams.com/2003_reviews/nikon3100.html
>
> The question I am incensed about and very curious about is how could the
> reviewers I trusted have been so inanely incompetent to have totally missed
> the fact the camera would inevitably turn into a brick due to the obvious
> poor engineering that wasn't visible to the consumer but which should have
> been wholly obvious to the "professional" camera reviewer?
>
> Is it that the reviewers are:
> - Paid by the camera manufacturers to tout their products?
> - Paid by the advertisers to tout the manufacturer's products?
> - Clueless?
> - ??? or ???

They probably aren't allowed to test the cameras to destruction! With the
light use the reviewers put on a test camera, something like a flimsy
latch isn't going to break. Even if it did they aren't going to write it
in their article - camera manufacturers aren't going to be too trusting
of a reviewer who breaks cameras!

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Brendan Gillatt
brendan brendangillatt co uk
http://www.brendangillatt.co.uk
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Posted by Caesar Romano on October 15, 2007, 4:08 pm

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:45:45 GMT, Jeanette Guire
reviewers totally miss a serious flaw in the camera?:

>Is it that the reviewers are:
>- Paid by the camera manufacturers to tout their products?
>- Paid by the advertisers to tout the manufacturer's products?
>- Clueless?
>- ??? or ???

Clueless.

That's why when considering a new camera, you *start* with a review,
but then do a lot of reading in the on-line forums associated with the
model camera you are considering. However, that might not even help
with a new model that doesn't have much time in the hands of users.

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