Happy New Year 2011 to all our readers.

We are happy to see some growth in our readership as time goes. This gives up a very important indication on whether we are still developing this project right and making sure that this project, for what it does, it is still relevant to everyone else out there.

Thanks to everyone who have expressed their views, given their feedbacks no matter if it’s a compliment or a critic. Keep them coming!

Well, before the year coming to an end, we added some spices into the project.

In the sample photos section every camera gear’s article, we have added a “summary” section on the characteristics of  the photos being listed. One can easily tell that kind of camera body or lens being used the most, focal length, aperture and so on.

With this feature going live, these are just some of the many questions that we can answer. For examples:-

• Who actually use this lens most?
• What lens are being used this particular camera body the most?
• For this zoom lens, what focal length that people usually use it on?
• This lens has the largest aperture of f/1.4, but do the majority of photos taken using this piece of glass are taken at f/1.4 too?
• If I’m using this lens, at these particular settings set, what kind of other settings other people are likely to use?

And a lot other questions that may arise.

And of course that’s just the summary, we can find detailed analysis on each of the characteristics mentioned in the summary (or more!) too. This is how things would look like in the case of Canon EF 50mm f/1.8.

This is just the first phase in our implementation of this feature. Coming up next, we will be adding textual data/analysis on top of each graph that you are seeing. And, of course, we will be expanding this feature to the Explore! section soon.

Implemented and being effective immediately, postings in myLensDB Trade! that age more than 1 month would have its email messaging feature disabled to prevent unnecessary (spamming) inquiries to the owner of the post.

This is the sample of a posting that ages more than 1 month.

Of course, there will be measures for the post owner who decide to extend/leave the email messaging feature open on their postings after 1 month old. We are looking to implement that in the near future.

This would be yet another major upgrade to myLensDB after the release of myLensDB Trade! about 1 month ago.

This time, we bring you the camera specifications and the analytics.

Camera Specifications

We have always wanted to do this since the inception of this project as part of our mission to be the most complete and comprehensive source of information to camera gears. A one-stop center where one can access to all sorts of information needed when scouting for a new camera gear so to speak!

This would be some sort of sprint review for myLensDB project. This time, we will be taking a quick chronological walk to what we have become today and what to expect in the near future.

(The very first LensDB)

First started as a personal pet project named as LensDB residing at hugolim.com on 22 June 2009, which focuses on being a database that collects camera lens pricing around Malaysia. (Hence, the name LensDB)

On 1 July 2009, the project got its own domain myLensDB.com but apart from the change of name, the core system is still the same old one.

Exposing your email while posting a buy/sell entry may invites lots of not-so-friendly spam emails to your inbox! This is one issue that’s we have identified when started developing the myLensDB Trade! camera trade zone.

And today, although it’s only second official day in the running, we are pretty excited to have fixed this critical issue!

No email submitted by the users will ever be exposed to the public, simply. Potential buyer/seller may approach the author by submitting through the respective post page. The author will be then receive the email send via mylensdb system and only replies to the sender at will.

Here’s a quick and dirty test email:

Simple, cool and secure! Hope that it will be as popular as what the main site is about too!

Finally, if you are looking for any photographic products or intend to let go any, you are invited to post up in myLensDB Trade!. It’s FREE!