nikon D40

[Nemesis]

dude come on... your going to come in a thread asking for advice and tell us to do our own research? call me jaded but im going to trust some personal accounts on here because its to the point information from a lot of people that have been there done that. i can ask a question and get a poignant answer. i dont just get broad information. why do the research if i can get the answer i needed from someone who feels like helping.

your post defeats the purpose of this whole forum. just my

Where in this thread did I ask for advice? And trust me, I give out advice to people all day long that deals with this type of topic, so I do at least know a little about the subject. And personally Id trust reviews from Subject Matter Experts over consumers anyday.

[Mr. Clean]

Where in this thread did I ask for advice? And trust me, I give out advice to people all day long that deals with this type of topic, so I do at least know a little about the subject. And personally Id trust reviews from Subject Matter Experts over consumers anyday.

i meant you come into a thread where people are asking advice, and im not knocking your knowledge on the subject, but we know we can do the research, we just chose to ask about it on here.

damnit i have to go to work... i really felt like debating Experts vs. Consumer haha, neway..


TO BE CONTINUED...

[Nemesis]

i really felt like debating Experts vs. Consumer haha, neway..


TO BE CONTINUED...

Create a topic when you are ready, and we can



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[Mr. Clean]

Create a topic when you are ready, and we can



btw: PM me the link to the thread so I dont miss out

alright im just going to go here. because this mostly goes for cameras because i have been fooled by a lot of misleading advertising and such. my argument will mostly have to do with buying an entry level camera and also a new tv because thats what i have been looking at here recently.

I would rather have consumer reviews because most will be on the same level of understanding as me as far as technical specs etc. so i will basically get a review in lamen's terms, i dont care what the product is supposed to be able to do, i want to know if it does do that and that it is easy to do, and in some cases i dont care about the quality of the product, i just want to know if it does what i want... and example:

I looked at a 37' Olevia LCD tv. it was on sale for $500... cant beat that. now experts say its crap because of this and that, but consumer reviews say that the picture is excellent and so on and so on. now i dont care if my product is not superb to the market, i just want it to be a nice tv for me to look at. and you wont get that from an expert review because they will compare everything to the current market product.

now tech specs are also a point in time where an expert review would be helpful because a new photographer may get insight as to what aperture is, or focal points etc. but i think experts take for-granted how much they actually know about the product before hand and leave out things that they think are pointless. now pre-purchase for some things like cameras and tv's i like to get some kind of feel on how people who OWN the product feel about, how people feel after they spent $500-2000 on a camera or $800-3000 on a tv, i want to know how they feel about how they spent they're sh*t ton of money. a lot of consumer reviews talk about how they would have rather spent their money on this or that.

and one other point about asking these questions on a forum is that i/people can ask specific questions or get a direct comparison between 2 specific models that may not found on a review website.

i think my main issue is just that most consumer reviews have a personal touch as to how they liked it as an entry level camera user or tv purchaser, not the harsh feel of an expert who has product that i could never afford to compare it with.

whew... if one person reads all this i will be happy haha

i can discuss for about an hour until i go to bed