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08/14/2003 12:36:48 PM · #1 |
Prompted by a comment left on this superb shot ...
With the explosion of DSLRs on the site recently I think it would be a good idea to add a lens box alongside the shutterspeed/aperture/iso boxes. Even better if it could be made searchable, but I'd settle for it just being there for now.
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08/14/2003 01:39:02 PM · #2 |
I've always wondered why there wasn't a "Focal Length" box.
And then I got to thinking about how confusing it would be with all the crop factors involved in the camera (actual focal length of the lens, or 35mm equivalent?), and then if you cropped the photo in Photoshop, the EXIF-provided focal length data has no meaning, so I figured that is why it wasn't there.
But having a lens entry would be good. Maybe pre-populate the field with "Standard" or "N/A" so the P&S users wouldn't have to do any extra work.
(Searching would be cool, but unfortunately using resized, 640-pixel-maximum images to evaluate the quality of a lens is kind of pointless... but I agree that it would be nice to have the info.) |
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08/14/2003 01:46:30 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by EddyG:
(Searching would be cool, but unfortunately using resized, 640-pixel-maximum images to evaluate the quality of a lens is kind of pointless... but I agree that it would be nice to have the info.) |
True. But it would give you a rough idea of what the lens was capable of, and you would know who to hassle I mean politely ask about the real-life performance of the lens.
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