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Help out [H] Consumer!

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Hi folks,

Over the next 6 months or so, [H] Consumer is going to be increasing our content coverage to cover essentially all consumer electronics. A part of that will be digital camera reviews. We already have offers from two of the (very) big boys and have a reseller that's willing to facilitate the program.

The problem is, we need a nice testing rubric to be able to look at digital cameras and put together an insightful, unique, and valuable review. We could look at Cnet or one of the other sites for hints, but that wouldn't be very [H].

If you guys have suggestions on what you think would be valuable information to include in the articles, we'd love to hear it.

Thanks!
 
For macro tests: See how well they can do the tracing on a [H] motherboard.
For durability tests: Feed it to Steve's lizards.
 
Ease of use
Target audience
Low light / indoor shot performance with/without flash

hmm. (its hard thinking of things that other sites don't have)

Maybe comparison shots of a fixed object at fixed lenths (tripod) using the best settings, mid, and low

(more helpfull with multiple reviews in place to help people select the best from the list)
 
I'd look at comparing pictures from multiple cameras taken at high ISO settings. See which does the best job in very low light.
 
Review them like [H] reviews video cards. Don't just compare numbers and specs, but actually take them out and do a writeup of usability and output. Things I like to know:

  • shutter lag
  • high iso/low light performance
  • zoom and focus speed
  • general responsiveness
  • flash performance
  • optics
 
hmm.. going to be very hard to stand out as different from the rest of the camera reviews. Dpreview does such indepth work for the hardcore photographer and all of the other review sites fill the average consumer role. Obviously you want to crunch numbers as lense speed and overall performance, but maybe relate it to real life more.

Maybe try to relate it to real life situations more so that the normal person can understand and the professional can still appreciate. Instead of saying "well the lense speed is 1.4 so it's good in low light" maybe show it in various situations and exactly how it performs. Like how is my picture going to turn out if I'm 10th row at a Pearl Jam concert with no flash, and will the camera even fit in pocket to begin with so I can bring it in? Shit like that.
 
Just make all your test picture subjects hot chicks.

Test the zoom lenses, etc etc....etc.


etc.


...etc
 
Tedium said:
hmm.. going to be very hard to stand out as different from the rest of the camera reviews. Dpreview does such indepth work for the hardcore photographer and all of the other review sites fill the average consumer role. Obviously you want to crunch numbers as lense speed and overall performance, but maybe relate it to real life more.

Maybe try to relate it to real life situations more so that the normal person can understand and the professional can still appreciate. Instead of saying "well the lense speed is 1.4 so it's good in low light" maybe show it in various situations and exactly how it performs. Like how is my picture going to turn out if I'm 10th row at a Pearl Jam concert with no flash, and will the camera even fit in pocket to begin with so I can bring it in? Shit like that.
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Great feedback, thanks. Real life applications of the camera is a major objective.

Setting ourselves apart isn't the primary goal, but if there's something that you typically don't see in camera reviews that you think would be something good to include, we'd love to hear it.

Thanks to everyone - keep 'em coming.
 
Durability or, how well it OverClocks. But seriously to be true [H] tests the cameras must be abused, then used. Everyonelse covered the other stuff. :D
 
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