How do reviews help?

[auzmum]

Ok, so I decided to purchase a new digital...after looking at many and reading many mixed reviews, how do i decide? Most reviews are great on a camera but then one or two are really bad....how do people decide?
thanks

[Frog]

Here http://www.dpreview.com/ and these forums are pretty much the only places I read reviews.
Why? Because they don't sell cameras!
The first is good for technical/professional review. Here, for real people reviews.\
I'll look a bit at other places but these two tell me everything I need to know.
Then I pay special attention to who is selling what I want and their record and reviews.

[mwfanelli]

Ok, so I decided to purchase a new digital...after looking at many and reading many mixed reviews, how do i decide? Most reviews are great on a camera but then one or two are really bad....how do people decide?
thanks

Almost every digital camera out there is good. Bad comments will always out number good comments. When someone has a problem, they scream about it everywhere all the time. No one writes "My camera is still great" every day.

Stay with major brands, handle them in a store, and buy the one that feels right to YOU.