05-18-2011, 10:02 PM
[quote name='Derron' timestamp='1305754324' post='8549']
Ha ha it seems as if NOTHING is good to them, every lens they review generally gets a rather poor score compared to everyone else on the net.
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Oh well, that is easy explained. The editorial team is German. The German attitude to say if something is "gut", which is the German word for good, it really means it is good and does the job well. In modern American and British culture if you call something "good", it has severe short comings. You can't call something "bad", can you? Something your really like, you call "excellent" or "outstanding". (I am German, lived in the US and Britain for several years and had to escape Britain before the Toffs came into power).
The way I see it:
On photozone 4 out of 5 marks a product which works really well, while in a US/British review something with 4 out of 5 has shortcomings. In the later case it is as if you have 1 pass and 4 fail marks.
Ha ha it seems as if NOTHING is good to them, every lens they review generally gets a rather poor score compared to everyone else on the net.
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Oh well, that is easy explained. The editorial team is German. The German attitude to say if something is "gut", which is the German word for good, it really means it is good and does the job well. In modern American and British culture if you call something "good", it has severe short comings. You can't call something "bad", can you? Something your really like, you call "excellent" or "outstanding". (I am German, lived in the US and Britain for several years and had to escape Britain before the Toffs came into power).
The way I see it:
On photozone 4 out of 5 marks a product which works really well, while in a US/British review something with 4 out of 5 has shortcomings. In the later case it is as if you have 1 pass and 4 fail marks.
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