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Built From The Ground Up: The Nikon 1 System Balances Speed, Style And Simplicity To Creatively Capture All Of Life’s Spontaneous Moments
The New Nikon J1 and V1 Cameras as Well as Four New Ultra-Portable Lenses are Engineered for Expressive Living
MELVILLE, N.Y. (Sept 21, 2011) – Nikon Inc. today announced a revolutionary new digital imaging system built from the ground up to empower users with new ways to tell stories through photography, driven by imaginative next-generation technology. The iconic new Nikon 1 system is designed to become one with the user and their lifestyle, providing a unique form of expression with amazing image quality, speed and portability.
Time flies. Remember that back in June when we announced myLensDB Discuss? Back then, we spent few weeks doing some research on what’s the most suitable forum platform that we can put to use here.
We started using SMF but there are too much of efforts and custom developments needed to make the site up to our expectation. We decided to take a painful step back, and see what our target audiences are using.
We decided to venture into Discuz! platform this time.
It’s not popular among the English speaking crowd as it is natively Chinese, developed by a Beijing company but with translation effort from Valery Votintsev. It is made possible. It’s not perfect but we are getting there. We are looking forward to try to contribute back in the translation as well.
Let’s see on how far can we actually go in this stint! Hope that you like the way we are going here and make sure that you secure your own favourite username in our forum now before it’s being taken away!
Panasonic’s Lumix G Vario 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH/MEGA O.I.S. Micro Four Thirds Lens is a standard zoom lens designed specifically for Micro Four Thirds System cameras. Its zoom range of 14 – 45mm (28 – 90mm in 35mm equivalent) is a good choice for a variety of subjects including landscapes and portraits. It has 1 Aspherical lens element which minimizes distortion at all focal lengths. Plus, it supports Panasonic’s contrast AF system for accurate and fast image capture.
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Samyang 7.5mm 1:3.5 UMC Fish-eye MFT is an ultra-wide-angle manual lens with 7.5 millimetre focal length and 1:3.5 aperture ratio, providing 180 degree angle of view. Despite its small size, the new Samyang successfully combines the best features of the popular model with 8 mm focal length offering highest quality optics closed in a compact and visually attractive casing. Samyang 7.5mm 1:3.5 UMC Fish-eye MFT is the first model from the new family of lenses developed specifically for Micro Four Thirds system.
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Optimization, clean-up, caching, subversion, database restructuring. All that you can think of.
For weeks, we are going at great length doing housekeeping for the site.
And in short, we optimized the site by throwing in some geeky reverse proxy and coupling it with W3 Total Cache plugin. We are now loading content at double the usual speed and delivering to you at half the time!
In term of database, we shrunk 33% of its original size by doing a little of database table normalization and re-structuring to reflect what the project actually needs as for now. myLensDB started from a very simple price sharing site to the monster that you are seeing today. There were a lot of “rubbish” data left behind as the site evolves.
Shame to tell that, after years since it’s deployed, we have finally adopted a proper subversion control. Integrity of the site is now well preserved and we can roll back any silly changes to the site, easier now.
It’s not done yet. We are still in hot pursuit of making the whole site as solid as rock. And as noted before, we are still planning on a total makeover of the site but it’s not going to be anytime soon though.
