Digital QualityThoughts

It's really quite boring. Every time a new camera comes along (or someone buys one and feels defensive about their decision), the online diatribes start. Or, people obsess over test reports and whether aFuzzyflexis "sharper" than aWonderblad.
Stop it, or It'll make you go blind.
Or at best it will blind you to the fact that similarly speced cameras produce images with quite similar quality – subject to the caveats below. There simply aren'tsignificantdifferences, and certainly nowhere near as important differences as are provided by different camera models when it comes to design features, user functionality, and ergonomics.
With this in mind, here is my opinion, based on having tested and actually used in the field most of the DSLRs produced in the past five years.
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The Opening Argument:

Similarly speced digital cameras will produce prints with roughly similar image quality characteristics. The re...