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Plenty of vloggers haven't even touched the cameras they're pronouncing on. With new models, if you have not attended an official launch event - and obviously that cannot include more than the main media players - then you won't get to even see the thing before it arrives at retail. Even if you do attend a launch, and I've been to more than I can remember over the years, there is rarely more than a handful of cameras at best to be shared among several dozen people over the space of a couple of hours after the main presentation. A good reviewer can form a view from that and make some judgements from the spec and the experience of a few years in the job, but in no way is it a proper test. Some things are easy, like the price of the EOS-RP requires no testing at all, and from the spec sheet one or two card slots doesn't need any further investigation, but things like AF performance in different situations and sensor dynamic range take a lot of time and proper setting up.
I don't see any contradiction in Tony Northrop voting the OMD em MkII as a good travel camera, while also casting doubt over the future of M4/3. They're completely different things.
Edit: with so many writers and vloggers now being self-employed, attending a press launch event can be expensive - the manufacturer will not pay for travel or time etc. That's enough to put off a fair number of second division commentators. For overseas events, they'll usually pay both airfares and hotel but those are rare - UK launches are almost always in London.
I know many of these vloggers are being over dramatic without even having hands on with the RP, but their hundreds of thousands of subs between them often just go along with what they say and will avoid gear that is being hammered. And they are being hammered for the reasons I already said. I just don't get it. Any camera upcoming that doesn't have 4K or a dozen 1080p options, 120fps slow motion seems to be another one they moan about, should expect the same bad press. And for us photographers this is an issue. I can't trust ratings now, not when 'cons' are based on things I never use. Not having a flip screen is now a con too
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