I am surprised that different people can read the same article and come away with such completely different meanings.
I took the message as "Do you own home work and trust no one site."
Fish took it as a whiney bitch little fanboy crying to mommy.
Mike, more or less, tends to agree with Fish.
Fascinating.
no disagreement there; numbers don't tell everything but they at least reveal something. And that's where we can start before making a decision.
The reason canon is that low is because the parameters dxo uses to "score" are those canon doesn't score as high at. In most cases their dynamic range is quite a bit lower which will result into a significant drop in points. If that's a fair we could debate about.
but in the end, scores are nothing but headlines in the newspaper. The real information is in the text that follows. The problem is that most skip reading that part.
It is not a helpful article, just some guy ranting about stuff he doesn't quite know. We should beware of what we see on the internet, including this article. I do wonder about DxO myself, but this article is not the answer. For example, he is amazed Nikon and Sony rank so close, and does not seem to know Nikon uses Sony sensors.
Seems to be all about the sensor and not take into account the whole system. What about the glass, or the auto focus and tracking, there is a big difference. DXO don't look at that.
You need to decide what you are looking for before deciding.
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