SLR Reviews: Not Always Reliable

Have you ever gone onto the customer response forums in search for some accurate consumer data? These open forums are one of the main reasons that I love going online! They offer a wide range of valuable pieces of information, suitable for consumers to take what has been said and run with it through purchasing the right product. I can not tell you how much money I have saved by using these forums. Unfortunately, I can not recount how much money I have lost by reading the very same forums, that is, back when I had no idea how to determine which comments were worth reading into. This small piece of information is exactly why I have decided to write this article.

One of the main things that initially stood out to me was the obvious sales pitchy nature to a lot of these comments. The slr reviews more recently posted do not seem to have this issue, but when the slr reviews first started being posted, salesmen from all over the world apparently attempted to make a buck or two off of the new found hype. The main things that can set off the “sales pitch” alarm during your research are whether of not the comment carries with it a website promotion, and, above all else, realizing that there are absolutely no negative remarks about the product. Sure, there will be genuine comments that state the slr camera / lenses are actually the best thing out there, but these genuine comments are usually accompanied with other statements, such as their desire for something else within the original slr package. For example, all genuine comments will offer a story on how they used the product and, as a result, discovered that a DIGIC 4 would have been better than just the DIGIC III that they purchased, etc.

This is why slr reviews are not always reliable! The majority of the initial slr reviews that were published carried a rather large amount of salesmen pitches, website promotions, and not a single one of them suggesting a better pathway to follow. However, if you find any slr reviews that offer technical information, such as whether or not the product in question carries the aforementioned motors, ViewFinder software, CMOS sensory systems, cropping and onboard editorial applications. These reviews are actually extremely trustworthy, for they are geared to the more professional photographer, offering them a listing of specs and advances that, if they are inferior, the professionals reading their slr reviews would know from the get go that they are either faulty or authentic.