What kind of criteria is used to rate a product? A lot of people may think that the answer depends on what the product is.
I take a different view.
I think it depends on the rater.
If you had two different people rate the same batch of products you would come out with two sets of results.
Why is this? Because a person faces life based on their own experiences and on their own preferences.
So if you were going to rate a digital camera, how would you go about it? For me, the first thing I would do is put it up to my face as if I were going to take a picture and see how it feels.
I do this because I wear glasses and I have found that some cameras are more comfortable than others when I do this.
I also prefer to take a photo by having the viewfinder up to my eye as opposed to holding the camera out in front of me and using the viewfinder.
So that would be a top criteria for me to top rate a camera.
You, on the other hand, may never take a picture with the viewfinder and you could care less about how it feels next to your face, because it's never going to be there.
To you, the LCD screen would be of more importance.
But that may not even be in your top ten list of things that are important.
Your top criteria could be, say, battery life.
If you are out in the field a lot and do not always have access to facilities to charge your batteries, and so battery life would be your top criteria.
So the important thing to think about when you are looking at the ratings of cameras is what criteria are the raters using? How are they using the camera? Are they professionals? Is the price tag important to them? Gathering information to do your own rating on digital cameras is one of the most important things you can do if you are thinking about a new digital camera purchase.
Of course you want to know what others think about the camera and their reasons for thinking so, but in the end the camera needs to be a good fit for you.
I take a different view.
I think it depends on the rater.
If you had two different people rate the same batch of products you would come out with two sets of results.
Why is this? Because a person faces life based on their own experiences and on their own preferences.
So if you were going to rate a digital camera, how would you go about it? For me, the first thing I would do is put it up to my face as if I were going to take a picture and see how it feels.
I do this because I wear glasses and I have found that some cameras are more comfortable than others when I do this.
I also prefer to take a photo by having the viewfinder up to my eye as opposed to holding the camera out in front of me and using the viewfinder.
So that would be a top criteria for me to top rate a camera.
You, on the other hand, may never take a picture with the viewfinder and you could care less about how it feels next to your face, because it's never going to be there.
To you, the LCD screen would be of more importance.
But that may not even be in your top ten list of things that are important.
Your top criteria could be, say, battery life.
If you are out in the field a lot and do not always have access to facilities to charge your batteries, and so battery life would be your top criteria.
So the important thing to think about when you are looking at the ratings of cameras is what criteria are the raters using? How are they using the camera? Are they professionals? Is the price tag important to them? Gathering information to do your own rating on digital cameras is one of the most important things you can do if you are thinking about a new digital camera purchase.
Of course you want to know what others think about the camera and their reasons for thinking so, but in the end the camera needs to be a good fit for you.
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