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Originally Posted by bauerman
Well that has changed with the March Edition of the magazine – they review low end DSLR’s – ($600-$800) and they actually chose an overall best pick – the Canon Rebel XT. Good for them – not because they chose a Canon (but that is good too) but because they actually CHOSE something!!
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You still read Pop Photo?
I would still wonder how meaningful the results were, not necessarily because they chose the Canon but because of the generally widespread partisanship in choosing and writing about dSLR systems generally. I'm beginning to wonder if a person exists who can be shown to be both knowledgeable and impartial on this issue. :P
Psychologists, medical researchers, opinion surveyers, and the like have been contending with that issue for many years. To be well-respected or even to be considered valid, research in these areas incorporate special techniques and controls to combat the tendency toward partisanship - and even they slip up occasionally. In this instance, I would wonder, for instance, if the pictures being judged in the image quality part were even single blind (the judges cannot know beforehand which images came from what kind of camera). In more tightly controlled experiements, double blind test are called for, where not only the judges but also people who interact with them during the judging process, e.g., who hand the judges the photos, are also kept in the dark about which images came from what camera. Of course, this would be impossible if the judges were also the photographers who shot the pictures.