Approach to My Reviews

By allthelux | July 12, 2025

The whole point of this article is to establish some criteria for reviews and newsletter emails about them. Thanks for reading.

Why imaging.reviews?

The website has a goal of reviewing some interesting examples of digital photography equipment, tools and methods, from 1991 to 2025.

Scientific method

    • Compare final edits as seen by the viewer. An image goes through multitudes of analysis and processing to make it "acceptable".
    • Therefore, no AI, or noise reduction, perspective correction, Velvia colors. What you get out of a camera or lens is what you get. Or it should be in reviews.

No RAW images

    • Development should be left to the camera. A JPEG file that was developed using Lightroom, up resolution, denoising, etc. and other tools can't be presented and claimed that it was done by the equipment. Fight me on this.
    • This doesn't apply to cases when RAW is required, like astrophotography.

Subjective

    • Editor(s)'s vision, needs, and hands are different. What works for one isn't universal. While trying to generalize, everyone bases their work off of their personal experience.
    • Most equipment covered here are decades old with hundreds of reviews and used copies available online, and they are discontinued.
    • No interest in promoting old equipment as each copy may have survived differently.

Used Gear

    • Gear used in this publication may be available on eBay and allthelux.com (shipping within the US).

AI use

    • AI use for writing and coding
      • I'm not great at EVERYTHING. When possible, AI may be used for grammar, research, and website design and operation, but not in generating an article or image or any of their parts.
    • All text, data and content are generated and reviewed by humans prior to publishing.
    • Imaging and reviews are done only by humans.

Reference Settings

Format

    • JPEG - max res, 8-bit and 100% quality
    • Setting for i.r web publication from RAW: 85% quality

Standard built-in Vibrant Profile

Old colors don't hold up to current monitors, or do they?

Aperture

    • f/8 – sweet spot in sharpness

ISO

    • Low: ISO100
    • Native High: ISO1600
    • Native Max: ISO3200-ISO6400

Reference Equipment

    • List is available here.