[wim]

See what you caused. 

 

Seriously ... we are not here to do advertising for manufacturers. If we don't put our fingers into the wound nothing will happen.

It just cannot be in your interest if we rated them better just for the good feeling. Remember that manufacturers give a damn s about you. You are merely a statistical number for them no matter what they tell you. We should treat them in the very same way.

 

Our aim is to have a bell/gauss curve for our ratings with a hot spot at 3*.

(2*) 4* are a (negative) privilege and 1* & 5* are near impossible.

 

Why? Aiming for that is rather nonsensical IMO. You need both a sufficient number of different lenses of the same focal length, and a sufficnent number of lenses of each model (approx. 20 or more) to use statistics properly.

 

Otherwise you are essentially comparing apples to oranges, and also do not have a sample large enough to do any reasonably statistically valid comparisons with, let alone come to any valid conclusions.

 

F.E., I have always wondered about the ratings for long lenses here, but this I now understand. Tbvh, you need to divide lenses at least in different FL-groups in order to do this type of thing and make those scores at least seemingly relevant.

 

Just my opinion, and my 2c, of course.

 

Kind regards, Wim