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Thursday, March 08, 2012

2012 ILDC/DSLR Lab-Test Shootout by French Magazine Fnac (for 22 Models)

Someone emailed me the link for the review article in pdf (in French), which is really interesting and useful. I have to say thank you to that guy! :-) (Although it seems that he just wanted to be anonymous here, otherwise I should have given direct credit to him publicly.)

http://multimedia.fnac.com/multimedia/editorial/labo/reflex_2012.pdf
(in French)

They tested various IQ and performance aspects of a camera including resolution, colour accuracy, ISO SNR, AF speed and hit rate, lens distortion and vignetting, image stabilisation ability and etc.

Enjoy! If you do not read French, just use an Acrobat Editor (not pure Reader), change from the dragging view mode to cursor mode, select the text and copy and paste into the Google translater. That's it! :-D

In particular, Page 4 of the review has a detailed explanation on all the tests carried out for the conditions and purposes of the tests.
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Dave's clichés · 681 weeks ago

Hi, This is a chain of large retail outlets in France which sell everything from books,computers,televisions,multimedia digital cameras and a lot more. They gained a reputation for being a bit serious/intellectual and created an inhouse test laboratory not just for digital cameras but sound equipment and the like. My criticism is that the reviews tend to be written in a praise only style which has changed little since the early days,tending to avoid real comparisons and using superlatives in a plastic sort of fashion. Otherwise it must be said England's chains of shops could do worse than copy their example§
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Richard · 681 weeks ago

The tests however are useful for non-technical readers and are easy to follow. The resolution results and distance moved after pressing the exposure button after a subjet has moved up to a point 5 metres from the camera is interesting. The K5 only marginally lags behind the EOS 60D and Nikon D7000. The 7D is fantastic, and the Nikon D700 FF is not as fast as the D7000. Maybe it's related to the extra weight of the lens components in FF-compatible lenses.

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