CNET just busted my eyes open by presenting a really, REALLY unpleasant hypothesis, one that shakes a camera reviewer like myself to his very core.  Check this out from one of CNET’s biggies in review, Joshua Goldman:

Unfortunately, after testing many snapshot cameras available in a single color as well as those offered in several colors, I’ve developed a working theory that the more colors a camera comes in, the more likely there’s something wrong with the model.

It’s not the case with all cameras, but more often than not that’s how things shake out. It’s especially true if its available in more than four options and if the company has gone with two-word color names like flaming red or warm silver.

I have to call shenanigans on this, at least slightly–I too have gone through more than a few different varieties of camera and have discovered varying levels of quality, but at least in the cameras I’ve come in contact with so far, color choices really doesn’t make a huge difference.  Granted, I may not have seen as many models as Goldman’s got his hands on so far, and I could’ve easily got the not part of the more often than not caveat he discusses, but I really can’t speak to the same experience he had.  Maybe down the line, though, I might be able to agree with him.

And that, frankly, worries me.