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p.2 #4 · p.2 #4 · TDP Review: Canon EF 16-35mm f/4 L IS USM Lens | |
RCicala wrote:
I'll add my $0.02 about Bryan and TDP - he does a thorough job, is honest about things, and is making a living from a lot of hard work. I can vouch for his careful methadology - more than a few times when he thought a lens was a poor copy he's gotten a second or third from me to verify his results before posting. (I also like that he generally buys the copies he reviews retail rather than getting demos from the manufacturer.)
The amount of work he goes though is truly staggering. Beyond staggering. So there is no way the heck you can fault him for putting a few links on his website. I mean it's a TON of work he does. If you've never tried, you just don't even begin to realize the effort. I think I might go crazy do as much as he does. It's like flipping burgers all day long day after day at Burger King, only in this case you have to pay strict attention to every flip and make sure they are all aligned perfeclty on the pan and timed ot the tenth of a second.
That said, for whatever reason (and there could be many), much more often my own results are much closer to as photozone.de measures than TDP and for whatever reason, just about every single Tamron lens I try performs WAY, WAY better than on TDP, sometimes night and day difference, not sure if I just luck out with top copies and he always gets a bum tamron or it's the distance and method he uses or maybe he gets more careless if it's not a Canon lens or what. That said I still make use of the site and it's always worth a look, even if I definitely don't take it as gospel. And I do find the results more trustable overall (especially in more recent years when he switched from using AF to manual focus and then to manual focus with more than one trial, the first two methods really were not terrible valid, so I think the results seem better than in the early years, although I still seem to get better matches to my copies with PZ more often) than DxO at least and it's a good starting point. Also lots of good info on size and weight and so on all together.
Edited on Jul 01, 2014 at 01:16 AM · View previous versions
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