wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: WWP Equipment Stats
Pat Swovelin 2006-Apr-18 21:29:00
Tim Hatch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just in case others are interested, I've compiled a rough list of
> equipment used in the latest WWP event. It's really rough, with a
> lot of items unspecified, but that's inherent in the data provided to
> the freeform fields in the WWP pages. (I started writing something
> to generate a histogram of photography times but that's a can of
> worms for another day!)
So you're going to start tomorrow, right? =8^)
> Equipment stats are available at
> http://timhatch.com/projects/wwp-equipment/ in two formats:
>
> * HTML with links to the entries, ordered separately by popularity
> of camera body, lens, panohead, tripod, and software.
> * CSV in case you want to do your own analysis
This is great. Thanks for taking the time to do it. The
hardware/software breakdown is something I've always wondered about.
Of course you realize you're stuck with doing this from here on out.
Heh heh heh...
> The short version of the results is:
>
>> The top camera is the Nikon D70 with 35 known entries, followed by
>> the Canon 20D with 19. The top two lenses are almost a tie between
>> the Sigma 8mm and Nikkor 10.5mm, with mine (the Nikon FC-E8) coming
>> in third. Another interesting statistic is that homemade/custom/
>> handheld panoheads outnumber those with specific models by a good
>> number.
>
> Corrections are welcome: I'm well aware that the lens notation is
> weird/wrong, but I hope it's halfway readable. I was aiming for a
> format that was easy to machine-parse and hadn't considered all the
> types when I started. I may produce a summary table for brands if
> anyone is interested -- this would especially help RealViz Stitcher,
> which appears artificially lower in the rankings due to most users
> specifying a specific version.
>
> Tim
Pat Swovelin
Cool Guy @ Large