Luminous Landscape WTF....

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Well I have been an avid reader of luminous landscape site in the past, not because of the gear but because of the trips they did around the world, it was nice and always linked with great photos from around the world, that was until recently...

It seems now everyone has to pick a "side" in Digital SLR "wars" and Luminous Landscape has been infected with the cool aid drinking bug, before they were less gear centric, but now they seem like a soccer player with a big sponsor logo in their shirt... the A900 has been the center of their recent articles pushing hard to tell us the camera is good, while it is up to each one opinion to decide which camera and brand works the best for them, I really think that pushing the A900 cool aid in more than two articles is nothing more of a blatant brand addiction and pushing :/.

The thing only gets worse when they say that in a recent trip some EOS 5D MK II failed and the only A900 didn't... by the way they took the cameras to ANTARTICA en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarcti… yeah the south pole...

In this article www.luminous-landscape.com/rev… they explain the video function and cry on how the cameras failed, but the lenses he talks about and used are lenses without ruber gaskets to seal the sensor chamber so to add insult to the injury not only they expect a 2,699 camera to behave like their 1D and 1Ds counterpart -which are fully ambient sealed not partially sealed- in the friggin south pole, but also they used lenses that lack the sealing rubber to avoid moisture and dust to enter the sensor chamber -which is where all the guts are-??????

They drove me off with the G10 vs digital MF comparison -they seem to be learning from Ken Rockwell- but now this? I would expect a little bit more from a bunch of dudes who have lots of years under their wings, I mean if we take 25 A900 and 25 5D MKII we could reach a conclusion on the problems they might face in Antartica, but even so it is stupid why would you carry a 2,700 bucks camera with poor weather seals to fucking Antartica???? :|

So yes another site to the bullcrap list to not read anymore....
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jacksl's avatar
I have no idea what you wrote, with regard to the technicalities....but I'd like to see the writers of this rag survive at the South Pole without all their innards protected!
I think not.