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Preliminary Stats for June 2006 WWP
Tim Hatch 2006-Jul-06 15:59:00
It's that time again...
Take a look at http://timhatch.com/projects/wwp-equipment/
data-06jun.html and send me any corrections. This is not yet the
full list - 32 people are missing from the original launch (due to
funky unicode that confused my script, I'll need to manually enter
those people), and I have not entered anyone from the late editing yet.
The biggest thing I've noticed so far is that the cameras and lenses
seem to be getting better on average. There are (so far) double the
users of the Panosarus, and five users of Hugin compared with two in
the previous wwp.
There are a few of things I'd like help with, from someone more
knowledgeable about cameras.
* Is the 10.5mm Nikkor lens properly Nikkor or Nikon? What about
the FC-E8?
* Pentax camera names seem very similar and, as Morbo would say,
belligerent and numerous. Are there really that many different
models, or is the *istD the same as the *istDS... etc.
* Seitz-Roundshot models... only one specified a model number. Is
that "the model" everyone uses?
* I think we went through this in March, but the Fuji (Finepix) S
[23] (Pro)... can any of those be condensed?
* To the people who put cute things in, I left them. Especially
the Jet Bell Ranger, I put that under Tripod. If this is not how you
want it listed, let me know.
* I'm thinking about collapsing "custom" and "homemade" panohead
into a single category. Any objections?
Tim Hatch