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Consumer Reports' camera ratings now include reliability data based on consumer feedback

Allen St. John, Consumer Reports Senior Home & Tech Writer.

By Allen St. John
Senior Home & Tech Writer

April 27, 2019

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If you're going to invest in a digital camera—instead of simply using the one on your smartphone—you want a model you can count on to capture the shot.

When your daughter takes the stage to accept her high school diploma or glides down the aisle in her wedding dress, you don't want to be worried about the quality of the lens or the lighting.

You want to record the memory.

With that in mind, we recently updated the Overall Scores in our digital camera ratings to include not just the results from our testing but also predicted reliability and owner satisfaction data collected in our member surveys.

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Allen St. John

Allen St. John has been a senior product editor at CR since 2016, focusing on digital privacy, audio devices, printers, and home products. He was a senior editor at Condé Nast and a contributing editor at publications including Road & Track and The Village Voice. A New York Times bestselling author, he's also written for The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone. He lives in Montclair, N.J., with his wife, their two children, and their dog, Rugby.