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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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