On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Torsten Bronger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Russell Edwards writes: > >> On 2013-03-11 18:39, Torsten Bronger wrote: >> >> [...] >> >>> I can understand the desire for input in case something doesn't >>> work out of the box with the Lens module. But what you suggest >>> would be displaying debugging data in my opinion. >> >> Hmm, I don't know. Debugging data is about picking up potential >> errors in the code. When you're talking about picking up quality >> of error-prone search results, users are accustomed to viewing and >> assessing the quality of results. For example, with google search >> autocomplete, you get a list of options, not just its best guess - > > But Google has to deal with arbitrary Human input. LensFun, > however, is supposed to analyse exact data generated by a machine. > In this context, I consider everything non-working a bug. Besides, > similar lens names may indeed denote different lens models with > different lens errors. > > I believe that the fuzzy search would not be necessary if LensFun > used exiv2 names. There may be fringe cases (e.g. the same lens on > a different body, reporting a different lens name) but nothing to > worry about. > > The problem is that the current LensFun database has been compiled > without much quality management. This needs to be fixed as well as > possible.
A lot of the current LensFun database was inherited from the last open release of the ptlens database... Regards, Pascal de Bruijn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
