This is probably one of the most important upgrade to date for mylensdb.com. And more essentially, it’s driving towards what it claims in its tag line, The Lens Database.
Here in mylensdb, we now get to see some sample photos taken using the specific lens that we are viewing at. For instance, we are looking at Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM in the screen shot below.
Here’s the dry part. Read on if you are interested on how photos are gathered and shown on the website.
Where?
Photos found in the website are obtained through flickr. Flickr is one of the most popular and celebrated photo sharing website to-date.
How?
Our website “talk” to Flickr via it’s Flickr API using phpFlickr as the wrapper class to utilize it’s API. With our own in-house built algorithm on crawling ‘quality’ photos, we index/cache them for a considerable amount of time to ease up the pain of loading everything directly from Flickr. We do not keep images in our server though.
Want to get your photos indexed too?
As you can see from the sample screen shot above, we will always try to get the photo’s essential EXIF data like Body/Model, Lens used, Shutter speed, ISO and aperture when we try to index your photos. While we still index photos that do not have sufficient EXIF data if the photos are really good, it’s best that preserve it’s EXIF data. This tiny information would be really useful/helpful to understand the photo better.
Exception
Of course, you may be seeing what you are not supposed to see in some particular lens. Some photos may have been mistakenly tagged to a wrong lens. We are making every single effort possible in delivering the correct ones. We will prepare a feature for visitors to feedbacks to us if a photo is tagged wrongly and we will step in and review them one by one!
Till then, enjoy!
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