the try 2 opiton with draconian enforcement of a rule specifying that the theme title must be specific.
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Which layout option will make you want to use DPRevived more?
- 56 votes.
- Voting ends July 30, 2023.
- Started by AlanSh on July 25, 2023.
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Draconian rules were considered unfair, excessively harsh and cruel.
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Hi,
My choice for such places: a Lotus Seven. Totally open roadster with plenty of track capability should you get a stretch. Also happy to putter along as if it were a tractor.
Usually stuffed into a race trailer hung on the back of a Dually Diesel to get from here to near there. The Interstate Highway is zero fun in a Seven. ;)
Plenty of room in the boot for photo equipment.
Stan
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Some of youz guys need to wake up and smell the coffee.
In 30 years or less, everyone here (including myself) and most of the people that you know in the real world will be dead.In the meantime… I intend to just go with the flow.
Sheesh… First World problems !
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Hi,
While we are at this, where to stuff the Kodak SLRs? They are both Nikon F and Canon EF mounts. They have plenty of oddball sized sensors along with APS-C APS-H and Full Frame. They were all Discontinued about 20 years ago now.
I suppose we can leave these alone over on DP Review and also NikonWeb (oddly has a Kodak forum along with one for older Nikons like the E series). Lots of Kodak history there, including many posts from the Kodak developers.
Although we recently had an interesting discussion regarding replacing Li Ion cells in the 14n, SLR/n and SLR/c cameras right here.
Not going to be much said about those models these days. The first page goes back to January 2022 and the most recent is 3 days old.
Stan
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Let me be a bit brutal .... The migration from DPR, I assume, is no longer happening and if anything it is going back!! .. The current "Threads" shows that there are less than a dozen entries in the last 12 hours so where is the need for a forum structure ..... What seems to be needed is a reason for more visitors to join and participate ... and more participation by existing members ... I rarely go to a forum and then only to post a picture or two ... I normally work from the Thread as that is what is showing me what is actively going on .... responding to threads that are more than a day old usually doesn't elicit much discussion ... but then I'm too spending more time over on DPR ...... I appreciate the work you've done and I'd like to see this venture succeed and thrive .. I'm still participating here ... but then .....
WhyNot
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Not to mention Mike Collette’s Dicomed and Betterlight backs.
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The problem with Dev 3 is that the page is too large. It is over four screensful on my 12“ ipad. I compared with the DPR forum popup menu, which saves a lot of space, and is, moreover, easier to read quickly. Can the layout be condensed?
David
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David, did you mean Dev2? If so, there's 4 options on there. That is NOT the final view.
Alan
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"...whatever everyone wants"???? 😊😎. That's obviously not going to happen so not sure what you mean by that.
Hopefully you'll get 50%+ on one option for a majority decision otherwise you'll end up with at best a "most popular" option with <50% in which case more than 50% of the votes will have been for other options than the "most popular".
Fwiw, I voted for Try 1.
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It was Dev 3 that I was looking at. But maybe I did not understand it.
If photography is the prime focus of the site, rather than gear, fora that encourage this need to be at the top of the list. The placing of options is important. Supermarkets and other organisation use this as a means of directing sales.
At present, >50% for any one of the options would mean 24 votes, which equates to 33% of those online as I write, and 6% of the total membership. I conclude that this is not a hot topic with users, and that the team should make their own decision about it, adjusting the balance as time goes by; but now move on and release more energy for the development of other important areas of the site that Bobn2 has been writing about for some time.
David
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No matter what format you change to this time around, you can make further changes as the site evolves.
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I think you should look at dev2
Alan
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The Sigma Foveon's have a crop factor of 1.7 IIRC, smaller than APS-C so certainly no APS-H ....
And then there is at least one existing Sigma for L mount [which is FF], plus the persistent hope for the Sigma FFF (Full Frame Foveon).
Nikon 1 and Pentax Q are small sensored ILC'sTo me this shows that the format is not a very good distinguishing point to base the organization of the forum on. I also don't see what people might want to discuss on the FF or APS-C level. We all know our equivalence don't we, some even got the t-shirt.
What is more useful IMO is a categorization based on lens mount: for instance all Nikon Z lenses and adapters can be used on all Nikon Z bodies, independent of the sensor size
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Do not mistake yourself
The Sigma sd Quattro H (2016-17) is APS-H format
Sigma sd Quattro H (2016-17) by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr -
Sigma SD9, SD10, SD14, SD15 and the early DP series use a slightly smaller than APS-C 1.7x crop Foveon X3 sensor
SD1 and all DP Merrills use a standard 1.5x crop APS-C sensor Foveon X3
sd Quattros and dp Quattros use 1.5x APS-C Foveon Quattro sensors
sd Quattro H uses a slightly larger than APS-C Foveon Quattro sensor, Sigma call APS-H, but it isn't (1.3x crop, maybe?).
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I have now looked at dev 2. I find it too complicated; but I guess I can get used to it. But really, it doesnt matter to me which one you choose. As I said above, I believe that there are more important aspects of the site that need development more urgently, and the number of people who have taken the trouble to vote in this poll is such a small percentage of the total membership, that I suspect most members agree with me 😀
The layout is not going to determine whether I maintain interest in the site: the level of courtesy expected of the members is more important to me.
David
PS: Where does discussion of Sony RX-100 cameras come?
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To continue in your logic, the Canon 1.6X and Sony sensors 1.5X ( Nikon, Pentax …) are not in the same category either.
