bad review on the 7D

Lowner wrote in post #9026003
I'm prepared to bet we will all be shooting 100 MP or more in ten years. The manufacturers have to continue researching or run the risk of being left behind.

artyman wrote in post #9026398
What a brilliant idea, now why didn't I think of that, now where's my paintbrshes

gabebalazs wrote in post #9019323
I wouldn't even call this review a bad review since it only focuses (no pun intended) on one particular field of photography, namely small aperture nature/landscape photography. This is what they do for a living so they did not bother to test the 7D at wide open apertures, tracking capabilities etc. For them it's not the right camera. I bet for them a nice full framer would be better. They don't really need the fast AF with zones, and good tracking etc. for landscape shots.
I have nothing against the reviewer but we should not generalize and paint a gloomy picture based on one area of usage. And I don't think they meant to do that anyway.

It's like as if an AARP club tested let's say a Lotus Exige, a Ferrari, heck even Hyundai Genesis Coupe and came up with the conclusion that they're not quiet, supple, refined, and overall not good cars for a nice cross country road trip with luggage etc. Would that make the these cars overall bad cars? Not really, it's just that it's not for them.

As for "cooking the books", it's always the end result that matters. 99% of the time there is some kind of resizing involved whatever the final purpose of a picture is, let it be print, web, etc. So I'm totally against the belief that "oh, it's not fair to compare images other than at 100%". And I am a pixel peeper... but if after printing I see a positive difference I don't care what the image looks at 100%.

Waldemar Sikorski wrote in post #9026267
Since I have no experience with the D300 just how that advantage manifests it self?

versedmb wrote in post #9025265
And the reason that people aren't comparing it to the D300s is that many of us don't have any Nikon glass and aren't really interested in selling off thousands of dollars worth of gear to switch systems.