Crystal bridge
This bridge is called Crystal Bridge. The weather here changes incessantly every few minutes. At this point it became very dark again and almost whiteout. A few minutes later it completely became completely white.
In 2016 I walked here in my old Newbalance 997 and destroyed it. In 2017, I think I used my Newbalance 998...that one did not survive here either. In 2018, I used Reebok DMX Ultra walk 6 and it worked very well. In 2019, I used my DMX 6Run here. In 2020, I planned to use my Adidas Alphaboost here but I could not make it due to the COVID-19 crisis here.
Here's why I think we should ignore the most of major camera review sites(except DPR, LensRentals, Photons to Photons and Jim Kasson)(updated):
These days I do not spend much money on camera gear or lenses any more, I do not even travel any more. I have been stuck in my tiny room for a long time now.
I've been working at my house.......actually not even my house but my grandpa's house as it is safer to stay there than go back to my house(not crowded city).
So honestly I have nothing special to photograph around me now, and I realize that there are many more important things than just photography or cameras around me.
Also I do not have to go some where very exotic to photograph, there are many interesting things I can find around me or my walking or running course every night.
And now I think health and workout related things are much more important than cameras.
I guess I have spent almost 5k US or more on shoes and training equipment like resistant bands , dumbbells and barbells, I also bought a good squat rack and a few benches...
I also have to admit that I bought 34 pairs of new sneakers(mostly workout and running shoes).........and that money was originally save for new cameras.
I now feel much better than a several months ago when I was still obsessed with every bit of minor almost meaningless difference between every new iterative camera updates.
To be honest , the A7R4 and the R3 are practically the same cameras.....no matter what the fanboys and reviewers say...and the Z7 and the D850 are the same cameras except for the AF and finder system.
There is no really compelling reason to spend another 3k US on these minor change models.
I think the Covid-19 pandemic really force many of us to realize that. And many of us really are now re-evaluating about the honesty and quality of these so called reviews.
Most of these are of really trashy quality, uselessly so.
Recently, the DxO mark finally admitted their recent mistake on the 1DX3 sensor review and that has made many Canon people angry......and I think they are right to be so.
DxO says they owe Canon an apology, and so corrected the charts and rating on the 1DX3.
But I think it is too late, the damage has already been done sverely.
All the people attacking the camera and Canon in general for the low score, all the YouTube videos, all the R6 trashing campaigns based on their dishonest and inarrurate review. Can they change any of that? They obviously cannot.
So,IMHO, Canon should sue DxO and maybe Luminous Landscape and some YouTube based reviewers too.
They caused serious damage to Canon's business and reputation. And worse never apologized or corrected what they have said about the sensor based on the lousy quality DxO review on that.
Some independent non-profit review sites like Photons to Photons and Jim Kasson are great(and technical enough), but any big commercial review site like DxO can not be trusted as they are a big business connected closely to a particular camera company or companies.
In case of DxO it is obvious that they are biased towards Nikon. They are not a fan of Canon , Sony and Phase One, etc....and they do not even review Fuji, who is one of the biggest camera companies of the world.
In 2018, they said (in the D850 sensor review)they think it is as good as the sensor in the Phase IQ260.
I think at that point, I decided to completely ignore DxO as a sensor/ lens reviewer although I liked their Photolab 3 software for my Sony.
Frankly most of major (not just camera related) reviews are of really trashy quality,especially those on YouTube as the point of a YouTube video is to get as many views as possible by dramatizing or exaggerating everything as hyperbolic and dramatic as possible, so the content creator is obligated to say something outrageous and inaccurate to get the maximum amount of "viewer engagement.
Then if you dare to point out the inaccuracies in the comments section, then you have to deal with the person's cult fan base insulting you for weeks, and that's assuming the owner of the channel doesn't just delete your comments.
Therefore it is really useless most of times......sure there are a few good YouTube reviewers in every genre , but most majority there are lousy low quality reviews.
It is the same for almost everything. For PC, for Mac, for cameras, for shoes, for jeans, for PlayStation games,etc.
In the YouTube sneaker world, most of people trash Reebok , Puma, Saucony,etc.....in favor of Nike and Adidas.
There are only a few handful great ones who have been honest enough to review and respect all brands.
In the YouTube camera world , almost all guys there are partial to Sony , Nikon or Fuji.
They seem to be really aggressively against Canon as though their parents or children were killed by Canon.
And many of these morons are still promoting the notion Canon's latest sensors are still outdated just similar quality to the 5DMK3 era of Canon sensor although their newer sensors are actually already as good as the best Sony sensor used in the cameras like the A7R3, the A6400, the A9MK2 ,etc. And arguably in the APS-C league Canon has already surpassed the best Sony 24 or 26 mp sensor with the 32 mp sensor used in the EOS M6MK2.
So it is really wise to ignore these YouTube camera reviews , unless you are just watching them as a pure entertainment or kind of comedy.
Even if some of these guys may be honest about what they say and fair to all brands, still what they try to ignore or not want to mention to us is that there have been absolutely no real interesting or game changing cameras at all since about 2015...... Seriously what feature or quality of any new camera makes it really worth the over 3k US price?
Has there been any new camera that is not an iterative update but really a serious new camera since about 2017?
I think none....... To them YouTubers and those so called reviewers every new FF camera is a game changer. And should we honestly believe that? If any of the Alpha 7X series cameras after the A7R2, or any of these new Canon or Nikon FF cameras was so innovative or a true game changer, why didn't any of these cameras sell really well? Or why couldn't these cameras save the rapidly collapsing industry?
The reason is that none of these cameras are really a new camera, just an iterative minor change to most of us.
These are still old fashioned 90's style uninspiring cameras to most of people.....so they cannot be very appealing or interesting to normal camera buyers.
UPDATE: DxO's dishonest reviews were detected not only one or two times but many times.
I thought the 1DX3's case was exceptional, but it does not see to be so. Many people sent me emails and told me that DXO lost all respect when they gave the Pentax 645Z their first ever score over 100 years ago and then days later removed it and didn’t put it back up until another body scored higher years later from Nikon.
Clearly Pentax/Ricoh didn’t give enough money to DXO.
And another person told me he also detected DxO rated the Hasselblad X1D as 103, then later pulled it back and buried the number deep into their database section.
Now we cannot see it any more.
I do not personally know the Hassy's case was true, but I remember the Pentax case , and at the time Ricoh fanboys were complaining about it and criticized them for being extremely Nikon biased.
So I think DxO is not a honest site.
For honest sensor reviews we need to go to Photons to Photons.