We are thrilled. This is yet another notable upgrade to ease the search of related lenses or other equipments in just a matter of weeks after the release of Ajax-powered search!
In each of the page you are seeing, even this one, you will be able to see some of the related articles (generated by computer algorithms) of the one you are reading.
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It would be a pain in the ass to find something here as the collection grows larger and larger everyday. So, if you have something in mind, just type it out and our new Ajax-powered search engine would suggest you the most likely result you are looking for.
There’s even thumbnail shown (if any) for the particular equipment.
But it’s certainly not perfect yet though. We just found out that due to some template’s coding glitch, one cannot click into the search box to start typing on Internet Explorer 8. We are looking into this now.
Till then, let’s start searching!
UPDATE! Internet Explorer 8′s users can now search in style! We nailed it!
This is probably the biggest leap ever taken on the sample photo aspect of area in myLensDB. After few full days of development, another few days of testing and debugging and with addition of another few days of live testing, we have probably unleashed almost the full potential of what we can offer in this department, for now.
(Photo Credit: Todor Kamenov 石拓, RichMN and Pedruca)
Dedicated Page just for photos. When you can’t be bothered with articles full of texts. Try myLensDB Explore! You are given with every possible choices that our system is capable of giving at the moment. Choices from lens to body to flash to whatever that you can see on it, you do the picking and leave the rest to us.
Photo detail is of course more informative. System would try to mix and match to on what equipments are used for a shot, and linking them to their specific page, if available.
It’s a system wide implementation. All that we have said above would be applied to all equipment specific page as well.
We would like express our gratitude for those that have shared their precious feedback with us such as the following:-
From our friend, Warren Tan.
And not forgetting, from Joseph.
Join us! Hope that you like what we are doing so far. If you would like to stay updated, do join our Facebook group, follow us on Twitter or comment on our ToDoAlive wall if you have any feedback!
Take part and learn together! Join our flickr group if you wish to contribute to our ever-growing sample photo database.
Cheers! Hugo
Moving on from our recent update to include flashguns into our tracking list, we are now looking in enhancing the sample photos search capability.
When you are browsing in a body or a flash‘s page, we will not be able to get the same comprehensive search filters like what we can get when browsing in a lens‘s page. (See screen-shot below)
Unfortunately, in this phase, we are rushing out to provide the fundamental support for flashes first minus the search filtering feature but there’s no worry about that. We are already started thinking about it even before we release this very upgrade.
if can filter the photo of each lens by camera body (ala pixel-peeper.com) would be a welcomed feature too.
Also, we will be looking into something much more powerful where you can define your own search criteria rather than being restricted to a specific body or a lens when browsing for sample photos.
For instance, you can do something like…. “If I pick this body Canon 500D and a Canon 15mm fisheye lens, what kind of photos will I get?“. And you can keep refining your search criteria like aperture, focal and such.
Thanks for those who have given their feedback to us. Keep ‘em comin!
Foo :
Hi! Do you plan to include external flashes in your database? Would do a great deal of help if you guys do!
We are very delighted to inform that we are now serving flashes in our listing as well now! After days of careful planning and development, luckily there are just a few technical tweaks needed to be done. Thanks Foo and many more for your valuable suggestions!
