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* [[Le Daguerreotype]] , the first famous series of cameras,designed by Daguerre and made by [[Alphonse Giroux]]. A simple camera, but its description needs a native English writing author | * [[Le Daguerreotype]] , the first famous series of cameras,designed by Daguerre and made by [[Alphonse Giroux]]. A simple camera, but its description needs a native English writing author | ||
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* [[Tessar]], the well reputed highly corrected 4-element lens of [[Carl Zeiss]] | * [[Tessar]], the well reputed highly corrected 4-element lens of [[Carl Zeiss]] | ||
Revision as of 22:34, 2 January 2008
Feel free to add whatever task you think should have priority.
Contents
Getting the basics right
Basic articles like Camera are still in a very intermediate state.
Image checking
All the images in the site should be hosted in Flickr's Camerapedia pool and have a link that takes back to the corresponding Flickr page. There are some exceptions when a website owner explicitly permits the direct linking of images from his or her page. This does not mean that this practice is encouraged, but it is legitimate.
List of pages with images that are not in Flickr's Camerapedia pool but legitimately display in Camerapedia:
- Riley (confirmed)
- Yashica Electro GX (likely, under investigation)
- Polaroid 600/600 SE (likely, under investigation)
- Fujipet (likely, under investigation)
- Fujica ST-605 (likely, under investigation)
- Kodak S100 (likely, under investigation)
List of pages containing images whose display in Camerapedia is probably not allowed (all these images are commented out: placed within <!-- and -->):
Any other image that does not link back to Flickr's Camerapedia pool is suspect. If you find such an image, you are invited to delete it if no explanation is given in the talk page. (When deleting, please make relevant text edits, looking for such phrases as "As shown in the photo above".)
Image mining
Why linking to other sites? Much more fun it is to view through our Camerapedia pool on Flickr. Several of the now 1900 images are still unused in articles.
Example of an article derived from image mining: V. P. Twin . This camera image was found by searching for the keyword "British". There are further cameras under this keyword in our Flickr Pool which deserve an article here. Not only because we need as many British cameras as possible covered to reach UK readers, and last not least native English speaking writers for camerapedia. A lever to reach more U.S. readers would be to use the search keyword "Kodak". There are many precious images of pearls of American camera production which are still unused in camerapedia articles. Don't fear to write too much about cameras from the giants of camera business. Kodak's big role seems to be in the past, its super-selling cameras have become historical cameras which deserve unbiassed covering in a camera encyclopedia.
Missing articles ...
These articles are still missing ( U. Kulick Aug 18th 2007 )
... about Cameras
- Jumelle, a nice antique camera type
- Le Daguerreotype , the first famous series of cameras,designed by Daguerre and made by Alphonse Giroux. A simple camera, but its description needs a native English writing author
...about camera parts and accessories
- Tessar, the well reputed highly corrected 4-element lens of Carl Zeiss
- Rollex rollfilm back
...about People
- Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre The legendary French inventor of the first wide-spread professional photographic system. Those who always would prefer the "alternate inventor" may add an article about Hippolyte Bayard.
- Jozef Maximilián Petzval, the inventor of the portrait lens
Maybe there are other men or women who deserve an original article in camerapedia, maybe George Eastman, Heinrich Ernemann, and a handful photographers that should appear in the category "famous photographers".
... about basics
Unsatisfactory popular pages
These pages are unsatisfactory but attract many hits, as you can see in the list of popular pages. They will harm Camerapedia's image.
Page Number of views Current version Canon 32,728 more intro and history, please Hasselblad 27,734 no history at all, should be split into separate pages Nikon 26,177 sketchy history Pentax 22,753 the company history stops around 1960 Konica 20,564 more intro and company history possible, the list of lenses would be better in separate pages Voigtländer 18,114 intro too short Canon EOS 20D 17,632 no description, links only, many of them are self-promotional Leica 16,989 short intro, most articles about Leica cameras are stubs Zeiss Ikon 16,447 brief company history, incomplete list of models, Ikonta article needed! Contax 13,879 the history of the Japanese Contax is sketchy 39mm screw lenses 6,500 should be reorganized and maybe split into more separate pages Kodak 6,100 incomplete list of models, especially in the Instamatic segment Nikon D70 6,100 no description, links only, many of them are self-promotional Canon EOS 300D 6,000 almost no description, links only, many of them are self-promotional 42mm screw lenses 5,500 should be reorganized and maybe split into more separate pages Agfa 5,300 brief history, incomplete list of models Pentacon 5,200 brief company history, 35mm cameratypes missing Rolleiflex 4,300 only contains a list of models Canon EOS 350D 4,200 minimal description, confusing model names Ansco 6,912 no history of that old company! several camera missing, see [1]
project status
End 2006: satisfactory: more and more people run into camerapedia when they search information about cameras. Some add new interesting links or make corrections of articles, or offer new images to the project Flickr image pool, or even become authors of new articles or article sections. But still some cameras and other topics need (more) description inside the encyclopedia. But a great variety of article compostion styles should give authors enough inspiration to add all the missing information. The objective to become a main web-resource about cameras is on the way to be reached. (U. Kulick, 3 December 2006)
