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Re: [OM] great lens test site... (Nikon)

Subject: Re: [OM] great lens test site... (Nikon)
From: "Bruce Hamm" <bhamm@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:56:46 -0500
Actually, if you take a look at www.photographyreview.com , you will find a
large assortment of reviews on OM equipment. They have almost all of the
Zuikos listed there, however many of the examples have had no reviews. Other
examples have quite a few reviews. This may be a good opportunity for list
members to bolster the information contained in this site.

Bruce


----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Dacey <frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] great lens test site... (Nikon)


> Hmmm, I wonder if you could also go one further and do an amazon.com
> style, "if you liked this lens then you'll probably also like these
> lenses" :-).
>
> Seriously though, I think it is a good idea. photo.net does have a bit
> of this but is somewhat limited in their lens reviews (not too
> surprising since they cover any system's lenses). Perhaps by limiting to
> a single system, we could get a more complete coverage. Philip shoots
> Canon gear if memory serves so it's not too surprising to see there's
> good Canon coverage.
>
> I see 2 possibilities here:
>
> 1. Get a hold of the photo.net folks and offer to write some reviews
> about some Olympus gear (they've got an Olympus section but all that's
> there right now is a review of the mju-II/Stylus Epic). Then we could
> take advantage of photo.net's comment features for other people to post
> comments. However, there's no system there for actually rating the lens.
> You can post a comment that states your opinion but there's no
> functionality for posting comments and saying what you'd rate the lens
> (so that there could then be shown an average rating for the lens). I
> believe there are some other sites as well that rate equipment that
> would be other possibilities.
>
> 2. Set up a new website purely devoted to Olympus reviews. This would
> allow for a specific set of features to be offered that might not be
> offered elsewhere. And, the focus is guaranteed to be Olympus. I don't
> know if such a site exists to date.
>
> Now then, this could be a move I may come to regret. My hosting does
> offer me the capability to setup this kind of site (full cgi and
> database plus 100mb of storage). I've still got about 40-50mb left of
> space on my account. While I wouldn't be able to offer any reviews (I
> currently own no Olympus equipment), I could probably setup a site that
> would allow others to post reviews (I can code Perl cgi scripts and I
> know SQL well enough to setup the database). I guess what I'm saying is
> that if this is something that the list members would like to see, I
> could set the backend up if others were to provide content (in the form
> of going to the site and filling in reviews, plus providing some
suggestions).
>
> james olson wrote:
> >
> > Here is a site that I think some may find interesting.  While I enjoy
the
> > great, comprehensive OM test site, I really like the subjective, real
life
> > input given each lens on this site.  Go to the Lens Evaluations section
on
> > the side bar.
> >
> > http://foto.no/nikon/
> >
> > As I was looking at the site, I was thinking it would be neat to have a
> > collaborative Olympus OM lens site, with opinions given by several
people on
> > different lenses.  I have one Nikon body, with 2 lenses, and this site
seems
> > to make it very clear which lenses are the best.  It's much more cut and
> > dry, I find, than just #'s.  And he talks about "bokeh," etc.
> >
> > James.
> >
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