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September, 2006

In Main Page/Draft2, I nominated the following articles:

However I'm not fully satisfied with that choice and with the corresponding categories. Please make suggestions. --Rebollo fr 07:20, 31 August 2006 (EDT)

I made the Template: Articles of the month/September, 2006. --Rebollo fr 07:47, 31 August 2006 (EDT)

Now I'm wondering:

  1. Must we keep the "category names" (Usable medium format, etc.) visible in the main page?
  2. There are too many Japanese cameras.
  3. Maybe we should get rid of the camera company: as Hoary said on the draft2 talk page, we have not enough good company articles, and the good ones concern little-known and small companies. (An article about a company is much more difficult to write correctly).
  4. For the collecting theme, a link to a template is a bit rough. There should be thematic pages first, then we could use this category.
  5. I think the pretty article category is useful to give examples of an intelligent use of illustrations. There are probably some pages that are better than Werra, for example Flexaret automat VII.

--Rebollo fr 08:07, 31 August 2006 (EDT)

Sorry to have been so silent and unhelpful recently. (And I'm afraid that this posture will continue, as I attempt to get a computer to work the way I want it to, and go on vacation, and catch up on work after that, etc.) In short, I agree with all of your points. How about replacing the article on the big Fujicas (which is a bit long) with Flexaret automat VII (perhaps recapitalized)? It's not Japanese, and Flexarets are affordable. -- Hoary 10:20, 31 August 2006 (EDT)

October 2006

We need to decide for the four next articles. We can keep the same tone:

  • Usable big gun
  • Usable regular camera
  • Not too obscure collector
  • Good layout

Yet better if we have a rangefinder, an SLR, a folder and a TLR as we did this month. --Rebollo fr 09:44, 26 September 2006 (EDT)

How about:

However, I haven't looked through any of them carefully, and of course there's no rangefinder among them. -- Hoary 05:17, 29 September 2006 (EDT) ¶ PS: Nikon FM3A is enthusiastically written but has some oddities. And as Rebello fr points out, Camerapedia should make up it's mind whether to call it the FM3a or FM3A. -- 10:47, 29 September 2006 (EDT)

The Makina and Contaflex articles look similar, their style is a bit too close. Both lack sources and have very few links. We can keep one but I would not keep both. The Nikon FM3A article badly needs pictures, I find that the articles like this that go in deep details about the camera's use are tougher to read without pictures (as opposed to articles presenting the historic evolution of a camera line). The Yashica-D page is straightforward and nice. --Rebollo fr 11:43, 29 September 2006 (EDT)
Meanwhile I'm less happy about the Nikon FM3A/a article. I've tried to translate out of (I presume unintentional) ad-copy-ese into regular English (thus from "utilize" to "use", from "high-strength" to "strong", etc.), but no matter how a lot of the claims are expressed, I suspect that they come indirectly but uncritically from Nikon's press releases. We don't need sources for the positioning of buttons and the visibility of this or that in the finder, but I'd like an attribution for the claim that, say, "The modern vertical metal shutter uses precision-tapered strong aluminum alloy blades and oilless self-lubricating bearings" and also if possible a description of how, if true, the shutter differs significantly from, say, the Copal shutter in a cheapo Bessa R. So let's pull the Nikon article for now, and also pull whichever of the "German" articles you're less happy with. ¶ User:Hoary wrote above and of course there's no rangefinder among them. I think someone should page User:Hoary: "Hello, did you perhaps recently lose your brain somewhere across Eurasia? Got any idea how the Makina is focused? Did you even read that article while you were 'correcting' it?" -- Hoary 22:05, 29 September 2006 (EDT)
I can add links and sources to the Makina and Contaflex articles in the next few days. Other articles in the same style, maybe even a little better, are Leicaflex and Contax S. For a rigid rangefinder, there is Leica CL that was recently overhauled by User:Shadesofgrey. And the Pearl (4.5×6 folders) would be an option too. --Rebollo fr 08:23, 30 September 2006 (EDT)
Perhaps we should go easy on the Japanese folders. The article on the Leica CL looks pretty good, but it has some oddities: notably the worries about use with 135mm. (How many people have wanted to stick a 135mm lens on any [like-a-]Leica since 1960 or so? How many with even half a brain would even think of putting one on a CL?) I've gone through it, smoothing it here and there and adding questions in SGML comments. -- Hoary 10:00, 30 September 2006 (EDT)
I reworked a bit the Leica CL page to address some of the comments. I understand that not everybody shares an interest in Japanese folders. However these articles are Camerapedia's latest and best, with scrupulous source citing and analysis of (reproductions of) original documents. I think we should keep at least one such article as an example. The other articles discussing about German cameras are not bad, but they are not as thoroughly checked, and probably contain some mistakes from a less careful use of the sources. --Rebollo fr 11:33, 30 September 2006 (EDT)
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