Please help with lens coverage database

[donbga]

It looks like the best way to accomplish this is to split out the coverage data into a separate table. This will let me specify the accompanying data of each coverage measurement without adding 12+ fields.

The database is going slower than I would have hoped, mainly due to honey-do lists that have filled up my free time. But it is progressing, and should be ready in a few more weeks.

My question is why? 12 fields in a single table shouldn't be a big deal. After all you are thinking about putting them into a seperate table. Am I missing something here? What database are you using?

I'm just curious about this since I'm a database administrator.

[EKeck]

blech! those colors are hideous, like crab juice or something. Heh, well that list is a start. but they have the diagonals for the film wrong, and they dont include any panoramic formats.

Hello Darinwc!

The list was formulated from existing data. The author of it allowed others to do as they wished with it.

The diagonals are for the full sheet at its nominal size, not the area cropped off by the film holder, and the image circle required diameter; however that makes it darned close I'd say.

The whole point was to QUICKLY recognise a go-no-go situation and identify a lens that might not have enough stated coverage. The list has checked out well for many lenses, in spite of the fact that coverage stated is often on the conservative side.

The colors were chosen to make the different categories of coverage stand out, and no attempt to beautify things or make them fancy was made. It was just another way to organize a chart.

The link was shared with others as a starting point and another way to look at the data, certainly not as some kind of "know it all", super-duper project as you might wish to create.

It is odd that you would elect to put others down and make yourself all high and mighty when the list's intent was just to casually share, for fun and for free, a point of view that has been useful.

It is also odd that you didn't write to those nefarious "they" guys to point out your issues and concerns and alert them to the fact that anyone is even interested in the topic. Most charitable and community spirited of you I'd say.

Meanwhile, I'll advise those nefarious bad guys to take down the page at that link because you have complained about it and offered to replace it with a better product.:o

Good luck with your version though, and hopefully, you'll find all the data you need to make it go well.

[Mark Sawyer]

Just bumping this thread, wondering if the database ever came to be?

[Uhner]

Bump.