It really is somewhat comical.
At last count, Gary Woodward had a little over 575 posts bashing the camera. (23 pages at 25 posts per page)
Now honestly, who really has that kind of time to post that much over a couple of weeks bashing a product/
I wouldn't even do that with the crappy Chevy Trailblazer that I own and that's been in the shop about 8-9X for air conditioning alone and they still can't figure out the problem. LOL
I think they've replaced the blowers in the system at least 5X.
Anyway, I'm sure there are professional bashers out there. If they can turn off a brand via internet roumor mill, or at least give people reason to pause before they buy, then they've succeeded to some degree.
The measure of any company isn't whether something goes wrong. It's what they do to solve the problem. So long as Nikon stands behind it and repairs the cameras that are blatantly demonstrating the phenomenon (I use this word because it's not common to every unit and it must be pushed to make it appear in the images) then they are still a good company in my book.
We live in some wierd times. Many people turn to the pages on web sites like DPreview to find information on cameras and gear and just dignifying crazy posts and trolls lends credibility to what would otherwise be dismissed. Threads on banding or striping that go for 100 posts creates the illusion in people's minds that "Where there's smoke, there's fire..." and that's what these bashers hope to accomplish.
Folks need to take a step back and look at who is posting and what their history is. Was their login just created? Have they been using that brand? Do they have images to post? Knock these out right up front and the trolls lose their teeth pretty quickly.
Banding that you must push ISO 400 up by +4 EV compensation to produce is not really an issue to me. I've never yet pushed the EV compensation to +4 on any of my digital cameras.
Who thinks of these things?
Julio
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