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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 532227" data-attributes="member: 13090"><p>And I think you're touching on what may be the Real Issue for many with DxO and their site: Information Overload.</p><p></p><p>The problem, if indeed there is one, is in not understanding what you're looking at but it's NOT the responsibility of DxO to make sure you are. They present data. Period. It's up to the reader to make sense of it and as Matt's video clearly shows DxO is entirely transparent about how they test and quite specific about what the metrics actually mean. They even go so far as to explain when a numeric difference is essentially <em>inconsequential</em>. I'm not sure what else anyone could ask for. I sympathize, though, with you feeling overwhelmed. Having waded through the DxO site (somewhat) thoroughly I found myself taking notes at times so I could read reviews, point by point, and really put together a clear picture of what I was being shown. DxO compressess a whooooole lot of data into a bite-sized "score" but it remains incumbent upon the reader to understand what's going on behind each individual score and that really is a bit of an undertaking... At least it was for me.</p><p></p><p>Getting back to Matt and his video, he clearly states he believes the findings DxO posts are, and I'm quoting Matt here, "scientific, repeatable" and "genuine". I understand Matt doesn't like the use of "Sports" instead of "ISO" and I'm fine with that; I don't like that they use "Landscape" instead of "Dynamic Range but whatever. Matt doesn't seem to like that DxO discounts subjective things, such as ergonomics, and I'm okay with that too but let's be clear, DxO doesn't claim they include such aspects when calculating scores and I don't blame them; that's far too subjective a topic. What I think is important here, is whether or not the data that DxO provides is *accurate* and Matt states he believes it is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 532227, member: 13090"] And I think you're touching on what may be the Real Issue for many with DxO and their site: Information Overload. The problem, if indeed there is one, is in not understanding what you're looking at but it's NOT the responsibility of DxO to make sure you are. They present data. Period. It's up to the reader to make sense of it and as Matt's video clearly shows DxO is entirely transparent about how they test and quite specific about what the metrics actually mean. They even go so far as to explain when a numeric difference is essentially [I]inconsequential[/I]. I'm not sure what else anyone could ask for. I sympathize, though, with you feeling overwhelmed. Having waded through the DxO site (somewhat) thoroughly I found myself taking notes at times so I could read reviews, point by point, and really put together a clear picture of what I was being shown. DxO compressess a whooooole lot of data into a bite-sized "score" but it remains incumbent upon the reader to understand what's going on behind each individual score and that really is a bit of an undertaking... At least it was for me. Getting back to Matt and his video, he clearly states he believes the findings DxO posts are, and I'm quoting Matt here, "scientific, repeatable" and "genuine". I understand Matt doesn't like the use of "Sports" instead of "ISO" and I'm fine with that; I don't like that they use "Landscape" instead of "Dynamic Range but whatever. Matt doesn't seem to like that DxO discounts subjective things, such as ergonomics, and I'm okay with that too but let's be clear, DxO doesn't claim they include such aspects when calculating scores and I don't blame them; that's far too subjective a topic. What I think is important here, is whether or not the data that DxO provides is *accurate* and Matt states he believes it is. [/QUOTE]
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