Review products

One of the misconceptions many people have is that the products we receive to review are pre-checked by vendors to make sure they’re great. Nothing could be further from the truth! The reality is that we often get pre-production products with all the bugs you'd expect in products that are almost ready for the market. Over the years we’ve received a number of products that were DOA or had major functional problems, including cameras and, most recently, speakers. We even once received a camera in retail packaging that was a hollow plastic shell intended to be a trade show demo!

We recently received an excellent digital camera to review that is truly impressive. We spent time learning to use it because it has an incredible number of shooting options that needed to be understood. Finally we were ready to take it out and do some real testing with it. The camera exceeded our expectations in every way. The auto-focus time and shutter response were absolutely phenomenal. During our afternoon of shooting a rugby match we were able to test multiple shooting modes and used several lenses.

When we got back to the office and starting looking at the pictures we were shocked. Every single picture, almost 100 of them, had a bright white spot in the upper right quadrant!! We checked for dust on the sensor but that wasn’t the problem. Apparently there is a bad spot on the sensor that always registers as a bright white spot. It’s a real shame because other than that one glaring problem it’s a tremendous camera!