Luminous Landscape Reviews Sony DSC-F828
Luminous Landscape is claiming to be the first website in the world to review a full-production version of the highly-anticipated Sony DSC-F828 digital camera. Actually it’s the second website in the world to do so, as the German website PhotoWorld.de reviewed the DSC-F828 on 20th December. Even so, this review from professional photographer Michael Reichmann makes very interesting reading:
“Sony shot itself in the foot by not providing web reviewers with production samples before cameras arrived in consumer’s hands. This has meant that well meaning but uninformed amateurs have been almost hysterical in their on-line discussions about their newly delivered cameras, citing all sorts of concerns. This would not have happened in Sony had simply FedExed a dozen cameras from the first production run to the leading online review sites. This would have meant that knowledgeable reviews and properly produced and processed sample images would have been available around the time that cameras reached early buyer’s hands, and much of the sillyness would have been avoided.”