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> If you do anything with photography, you probably know that Amazon, being Amazon, is shutting down DPReview.com, which housed some of the most complete data and knowledge related to digital cameras online. Amazon also owns IMDB. I hope someone is making backups ...
Yes, but they use IMDB to sell amazon prime. Same thing with goodreads, they use it to sell books on amazon.
What's the copyright status? The specs you have on there now should be fine, you can't copyright lists of facts. But if you put the reviews up will Amazon come after you?
> If you do anything with photography, you probably know that Amazon, being Amazon, is shutting down DPReview.com, which housed some of the most complete data and knowledge related to digital cameras online. Amazon also owns IMDB. I hope someone is making backups ...
> Amazon also owns IMDB. I hope someone is making backups ... Yes, but they use IMDB to sell amazon prime. Same thing with goodreads, they use it to sell books on amazon.
Are the plans for a comparison feature? This was invaluable when trying to figure out what changed in various versions of the same camera family.
https://www.productchart.com/cameras
Select "highlight" on the first camera you want to compare and then when you hover over the second, select "Compare to ..."
Does that work for you?
We have manually researched the product data for over 45,000 products. At the moment we only show currently popular cameras on the chart. But if there is demand, I could add a search for older cameras so those can be compared as well.
Are the plans for a comparison feature? This was invaluable when trying to figure out what changed in various versions of the same camera family.
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> Amazon also owns IMDB. I hope someone is making backups ... Yes, but they use IMDB to sell amazon prime. Same thing with goodreads, they use it to sell books on amazon.
Did they use DPReview to sell cameras? I imagine they did, but I hadn't heard of it until today so I'm not sure.
Are the plans for a comparison feature? This was invaluable when trying to figure out what changed in various versions of the same camera family.
I run Product Chart which has a camera chart that lets you select two cameras and compare them: https://www.productchart.com/cameras Select "highlight" on the first camera you want to compare and then when you hover over the second, select "Compare to ..." Does that work for you? We have manually researched the product data for over 45,000 products. At the moment we only show currently popular cameras on the chart. B…
That is a great project! Do you plan to enhance the UI, for example to be able to filter by other data, like zoom or weight? Or are you more interested in the data and prefer others to build other websites on top of them?
Great stuff! Curious if you plan on integrating some of the existing dpreview user reviews and Q&A. I have found those to be quite helpful as well. Also, the sample galleries might be too much to ask for given the storage requirements but wanted to see if this is part of future plans as well.
Linking to data on other sites (including archive.org) seems like a better way to go, than pulling everything in (as you mentioned, storage reqs become a challenge fairly quickly)