Originally posted by stevebrot More pain...scrolling the table with up/down arrow and page up/page down keys fails. (Firefox and IE on Win 10) Mouse scroll works fine.
Yeah, unfortunately that's a side effect of the dynamic DOM layout I built for the Lens Database pages, where the table takes up 100% of the excess viewport height not used by the rest of the page content above it.
Originally posted by ramseybuckeye
Thanks! I'll check them out and get started on research. And thanks for the request, when it comes to adding new systems or features for this project "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" as they say.
Originally posted by Fenwoodian .
Great data and layout, however after a few minutes of reading the background colors gave me a headache.
Might want to consider sticking with plain old black letters on a white background. That's the highest contrast and easiest to read. If you intend to keep the low contrast, brightly colored backgrrounds maybe you can give your viewers the ability to shut off the colored backgrounds?
My favorite part are the links to "repair resources" shown on the far right side - exceedingly valuable! Here's a link to a YouTuber who has excellent videos on repairing dozens of lenses. You might want to link to his videos too.
Two must have Nikkor F lens links are:
Lens Evaluations and
Nikon Lens Versions and Serial Nos
Also, check out
LenScore for what I consider to be excellent ratings on: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Sigma, Tamron, Tokina, Zeiss, and Leica lenses. This is the only resource that I am aware of that has tested and quantitatively rated the bokeh of lenses!
Thanks for the feedback! You touched on a point that I've been trying to figure out for a while now. I was a fan of how Dennis Lohmann (
MINOLTA Manual Lens List) used color-coding to easily distinguish between different versions of the same Minolta lens
(MC-I, MC-II, MC-X, MD-I, MD-II, MD-III, plus the AR and Celtics). I found that was useful for me, but it was a challenge trying to adapt that principle for other lens systems which weren't always as consistent
(*cough* Olympus OM). I still think that color-coding for different versions of the same lens is useful, but perhaps a more subtle/less headache-inducing color palette may be the way to go here. The trick is I want to use a color palette that also supports various forms of color-blindness as well (I want Aperturepedia to be accessible for everyone)
But I'm also realizing that perhaps not everyone wants colors, even if they're more subtle, so I do like the compromise to toggle B&W vs colored themes, and I'll investigate how to best incorporate that into the site. Unfortunately Aperturepedia's not robust enough yet to preserve your preferences, but perhaps down the line I can implement a localstorage or cookie-based method for saving a user's preferred "theme".
Funny you should mentions mikeno62, I just found his YouTube account the other day while looking for new links and had bookmarked him to integrate links to all his lens repair videos into the site.
Thanks for adding those Nikon links, I'll be sure to add them. The LensScore site is an intriguing resource, esp with their novel approach to quantifying Bokeh "scores", but I'm focusing on vintage manual focus lenses for this project and it doesn't look like they include any in their ratings.
Originally posted by stevebrot @nklein , I tried a different DNS server and it worked. Sorry for the false alarm.
Weird, thanks for checking that out.