Sharply Squad

[narrow bloom]

fuck you

pentax superiority

[jagged epoch]

Ricoh better

[narrow bloom]

ricoh is pentax you bomboclat

[jagged epoch]

No

[narrow bloom]

well actually pentax is ricoh

[jagged epoch]

See I win

[narrow bloom]

nuh uh

[gusty yoke]

Urmhh, actually, Ricoh could be Pentax, Pentax is Ricoh and not every Ricoh is Pentax 🤓

[gusty yoke]

And yup, fuck him, Pentax better

[jagged epoch]

@errant fox could you disable all the autofocus options for lenses, if AF is set to false

Thanks

Would be super helpful for film lenses

[errant fox]

Yes

[errant fox]

done

[jagged epoch]

Cool

[errant fox]

Lots of new stuff added recently (small stuff)

• compare button on gear page now lets you choose another item directly instead of just adding it to the comparison
• improved gear page loading
• added webhooks to notify moderators about change requests in discord
• new bingo game
• opened up /learn content
• metadata fixes for SEO
• review auto moderation

[alpine horizon]

Awesome

[snow yarrow]

updated my handle and the link broke?

this exposure triangle with the rocks analogy is confusing me

[errant fox]

should work after refresh?
if that's the problem easy fix

[errant fox]

rip

open to anyone who wants to edit it

wrote it fast

[snow yarrow]

cool beans

[snow yarrow]

yeah looks like its fixed

danke

[errant fox]

didn' do anything, just an issue of the profile button not updating it's link after the change

[proven glade]

love me a good version update README

https://github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAW/releases/tag/v1.5.2

keeping my eyes open for RapidRAW's progression

[errant fox]

fuckin epic

[proven glade]

time to render some thumbnails

[errant fox]

traffic looking really good tbh

[crystal coyote]

Oh damn

That's without any advertising or social media presence?

[errant fox]

yup

[jade knoll]

not even the 1st page smh

[tepid nest]

Start scraping lens-db

So we can horde all that info for ourselves

[jade knoll]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

[proven glade]

hey bestie @errant fox what if you could rearrange the slides in post builder 👉 👈

[errant fox]

One day the SEO is gonna match this and that will be a great moment

[errant fox]

Yes sir

[jade knoll]

I re google it monthly

[tepid nest]

You also forget what it’s called? Thought I was alone

[versed fjord]

10k messages

peculiar

[errant fox]

@proven glade

[proven glade]

lets gooooo

[errant fox]

u coulda done this btw, all i did was ask AI to do it 💀

[errant fox]

https://sharplyphoto.com//gear/nikon-af-zoom-nikkor-80-200mm-f-2-8d-ed

i'm doing this later but if anyone feels the urge to do it sooner feel free

[errant fox]

Changes Coming

• Improve gear breadcrumbs to include an absolute "[Mount] [Item Type]" endpoint
• Dev environment anonymous auth for testing gated features
• Script for deleting unused raw sample files
• Add author back to change requests and add better options for managing merged change requests including rejecting the whole thing
• Fix a bug where on iOS clicking the search bar would zoom in the screen slightly
• Add activity feed to home page
• Enabled the "Get Started" button for beginner callout on home page
• Removed MPB affiliate links entirely, theyre just bad, will partner with MPB when the time comes instead
• Add drag and drop reordering to Instagram Post Builder
• Added AF-S 50mm 1.8g to hall of fame list
• Added "Oldest" and "Recently added" sorting options for the browse pages

[narrow bloom]

oh the slight zoom-in on ios is SO annoying

bunch of websites have it

[errant fox]

yeah its a stupid accessibility thing

the only way to fix it is to make your site accessible

lol

[errant fox]

https://sharplyphoto.com/about

@warm hearth gear database basically

open-sourced/crowd-sourced

[warm hearth]

Oooh

How's this going to be different then DP review? I just want to know what makes this unique

[errant fox]

open source

and crowd sourced

and a modern UI instead of 2003 web trash

admittedly there are some advantages to a private review site

but with time this could become way more useful

[warm hearth]

No yeah this could have a lot of potential

Where are you usually pulling the data from?

Technical documents?

[warm hearth]

I think the one thing that frustrates me about DP review is over the years they don't input the same specifications the same way

[errant fox]

exactly

[warm hearth]

There's a lack of uniformity

[errant fox]

with this the data is the same format on every single item

that was one of the main motivations

plus some sites are just missing items

[warm hearth]

I'll look into this further when I'm not driving. 😂

[errant fox]

Alright who is responsible for putting "Precapture Buffer: Yes (RAW)" on the D5200

[warm hearth]

Lmao

[spare turtle]

I do database work, and have Python and Java experience.
I think i can help with data ingestion, refinement and database layout?
I'm no pro by any means, more of a junior.

[warm hearth]

What website builder is being used for this?

[errant fox]

https://github.com/Flohhhhh/sharply
it's fully open source! If you have interest you can feel free to fork it and submit pull requests

[errant fox]

no builder lol

[warm hearth]

Oh wow

Friggin impressed

[spare turtle]

Bet, i'll look into it after my last exam in april

[errant fox]

even if you're not super knowledgeable on nextjs/frontend there's a few different things that anyone with code experience can adjust

discord bot, data files, etc.

[warm hearth]

What's the backend for the database?

[errant fox]

postgres

[spare turtle]

Postgres 15

How heavy is this thing serverside

I have a small single core vserver instance I use for discord bots and my NextCloud, I could offer some processing power and a @wastedserver.de url for beta tests if it's not heavy

[spare turtle]

Ah no you have a web facing demo as well. Banger.

[errant fox]

i'm only paying a little over $10 rn for production and preview

so not so bad

well, that's only for the database

i have image storage too

[spare turtle]

Yeh small servers are super chill

Yeah mass storage is a different can of beans

100GB isn't expensive to rent tho

[errant fox]

also the discord bot is endpoint only rn

no persistent client

[spare turtle]

Understoodable

Genuinely fast website. Not bad

[errant fox]

could be faster, i started by just server rendering everything, need to move some stuff to client to make it feel faster

[warm hearth]

Adding D4s > Thermodynamics Class

[spare turtle]

Oh you're writing thermo? Banger subject. Fucking hard tho

[warm hearth]

Yee, I like thermodynamics, makes sense in my brain

[warm hearth]

@errant fox When it asks for rear touchscreen, is that asking for a rear screen in general? Or if the rear screen has touch capacity?

[errant fox]

touchscreen specifically

there are other things that cover size, type etc.

i should change that to just "has touchscreen"

or something

[warm hearth]

Okay yeah that what I thought, just wanted to double check

Any way to let me upload images for the cameras? Does it just need to be a PNG with no background?

[errant fox]

you can just send them here for now and someone ele can upload

editors only can upload rn

if you find yourself interested in contributing a lot we can make you one

[warm hearth]

Yee, we'll see. I'll just work on cams for now

I don't want to make any promises that I can't keep yet.

[errant fox]

adding a new search which works nicely with the localized/regional camera names

[errant fox]

new search

[warm herald]

what the fuck lmao

[errant fox]

@warm herald is that when you clicked a mpb link or something?

oh looks like you have some sort of privacy extension or ad blocker

[warm herald]

yeah works in a different browser

i have literally never seen that wth

[errant fox]

the "blocked category" is probably new domain

@narrow bloom how sick if digital picture was jsut acquired by sharply and became the content source

but with the modern UI and database of sharply

[narrow bloom]

yes buy digital picture

🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️

[errant fox]

ok omw

[narrow bloom]

hell yeah

[errant fox]

best buy?

[narrow bloom]

yes

ill ask him for friends and family discount

🔥

[errant fox]

genuinely tho that would be insane, say goodbye to dpr

[narrow bloom]

real

[warm herald]

@errant fox shouldn't the hall of fame go old->new

or maybe have a toggle to switch the direction

[errant fox]

ummm

yeah idk if there's a correct answer

toggle is a good optin

[warm herald]

felt weird to click on hall of fame and have the first thing be a 2025 lens

[errant fox]

true i guess

[warm herald]

also you should go back through the film era 🧌

[errant fox]

but also not everyone will want to see the oldest stuff, and any repeat visitors would be annoyed having to scroll to bottom if they want to check for new stuff

[warm herald]

fair

toggle

[errant fox]

the list is open source and just json, you can propose any additions you want

file is here https://github.com/Flohhhhh/sharply/blob/main/src/app/(app)/(pages)/lists/hall-of-fame/data.ts

[warm herald]

are you doing film gear in the gear database

[errant fox]

yup

[warm herald]

is the select use case menu broken

[errant fox]

disabled intentionally

not sure what the purpose of that information will be yet

of if we want it

[warm herald]

gotcha

i did fm2

just as gear not for the hall of fame

f2 or f3 would probably be better

but nikon was doing a lot of crazy shit around then

[errant fox]

damn found some bug or something

you submitted capture medium, mount, etc. right?

[warm herald]

yes

[errant fox]

rip didnt apply

ill fix, i still have the info

[warm hearth]

@errant fox Does this mean built in lens hood? Or just has one available?

[errant fox]

either

if lens hood is available at all

[warm hearth]

kk. Sounds good

[errant fox]

@proven glade iser has these 3 options for medium format but we only have these 2 below, do you know which one we're missing?

also the crop factors are different

Phase One IQ4
X2D and GFX 100S II
Leica S3

examples for each one respectively top to bottom

[proven glade]

youre missing 45x30
diag of ff = 43.3
diag of 44x33 = 55 = ~0.79 crop
diag of 45x30 = 54 = ~0.8 crop
diag of 54x40 = 67.2 = ~0.65 crop
no idea why 43.8x32.9 gets 0.73x
because 43.3/54.78 = ~0.79 crop

[errant fox]

im just gonna label them by sensor size as well because clearly theyre not standardized at all

[proven glade]

the calculation of 0.79 crop and 0.66 crop should be pretty accurate approximations

[proven glade]

they're standardized to at least those 3 sizes in digital terms

45x30 is a Leica S system anomaly, the market is pretty fluent in 44x33 and 54x40

h6d-50c = 44x33
h6d-100c, iq4 = ~53.4x~40

[proven glade]

the crop factor in the top screenshot might just be off?

[tepid nest]

I think he had said there was a calculation issue after he posted that

I kinda wish this was all just merged into sharply so we had one primary tool

[errant fox]

yeah...

[proven glade]

is iser making a fork of sharply?

[errant fox]

lol nah just tools

[tepid nest]

no

[proven glade]

@errant fox I think if sharply was less friction to deploy more people would be developing for it

[errant fox]

i mean not much i can do about that, i already did my best to clearly mark which environment variables are optional and required
most of the required ones are just self generated and arbitrary, only a few are needed from external sources, i think just discord or google auth to test signed in features are required

[tepid nest]

I don't know if he even knows about sharply tbf

[errant fox]

i mentioned it a few times

[tepid nest]

ah then maybe he just forgot or just wants his own thing 🤷

[proven glade]

maybe a dev mode that foregoes oauth and foregoes permanent database initialization?

so instead of postgres maybe a memory-based sqlite integration, but that brings it's own issues

[errant fox]

auth can already be skipped i think, just wont be able to test any gated features

until you add discord/google/resend

as far as database yeah that's a tough one

but you can always just spin up a neon or supabase project

free tier is generous

[proven glade]

yeah but just the premise of having to setup another account

but maybe that's just me

[errant fox]

most web developers probably already have docker

[proven glade]

think I've seen him acknowledge it at least once

[errant fox]

its pretty easy to set up a local instance with docker no?

i updated the readme recently-ish to be even more clear about the steps to get started with it

[proven glade]

yeah saw that

let's see if it's better

[errant fox]

and .env.example has details about each variable what it's for and required/optional

[proven glade]

how do you recommend setting this up? baremetal docker image and npm install there?

[errant fox]

literally just install docker then run start-database.sh

it builds the container

[proven glade]

no I mean node stuff

I have system node v25 and npm v11 so downgrading wouldn't make sense

[errant fox]

just npm i npm run dev

[proven glade]

maybe include a note on nvm?

[errant fox]

most people use NVM for this (node version manager)

i can also just upgrade to node 25 maybe

i always remember being so annoyed with how many concepts are suppsoed to be understood ahead of time and never communicated when i was starting out

like no one ever tells you to use nvm

[proven glade]

gotta be the developer that breaks the pattern ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I had a protege follow me to linux and he probably quit 5 times cause no one teaches you how to read search results

[errant fox]

cant you run it with node 25? @proven glade

[proven glade]

maybe

but I got stuck on npx auth not working

so solving that, then I'll try both 20 and 25

[errant fox]

my production deployment uses 22

but i think that's new enough that 25 should work fine

[errant fox]

what's this

[proven glade]

npx auth secret for making AUTH_SECRET env

[errant fox]

here ya go pZFQ9lUprRJjA9QiXeFaQpJEk1bY9n/5QRscD8wNm8oNL96x821m1aFKvY0=

lol

or you can literally just type some random string

doesn't matter

[proven glade]

I doubt this is an issue exclusive to me

I've gotten npx auth secret to work before

it not working now is just more friction to deploying the project

[errant fox]

but what even is npx auth secret

[proven glade]

in your env.example

[errant fox]

ah interesting

that's from the original boilerplate

always assume it was just a tool you could use

[proven glade]

yeah it's from nextjs

[errant fox]

just skip it
all it does it generate something like this for you to copy paste
pZFQ9lUprRJjA9QiXeFaQpJEk1bY9n/5QRscD8wNm8oNL96x821m1aFKvY0=

or you can just type my-auth-secret

maybe i should just put that in the example lol

[proven glade]

reinstalling my node modules, think it's a conflict cause I npm installed with npm 11 node 25 and now I'm on npm 10 node 20

[errant fox]

also the project does have .nvmrc btw, it should just be using 24 automatically

you can do

nvm use```

[proven glade]

didn't see that

[errant fox]

i forgot about it 🥀

[proven glade]

should probably include that in the README

[errant fox]

yes

[proven glade]

should probably include docker sock user permission notices in the error for start-database.sh

docker info executed on linux with a user that doesn't have access to the sock just returns exit code 1 regardless of if the daemon is running

one good way on unix is to read the pid of docker at /var/run/docker.pid

and then id | grep docker or grep podman for permission

but running with sudo went fine

[errant fox]

yeah that's outside my area of expertise haha

this script was included with the boilerplate

[proven glade]

makes sense

[errant fox]

i just made some good improvements to the env and readme tho on development branch

damn i got a lot of stuff on development rn

gotta merge

[errant fox]

blah blah blah

that's new today actually lol, haven't seen that

maybe some security thing came up

[errant fox]

@proven glade thoughts?

[proven glade]

lgtm

also you should probably rename aps-h canon to just aps-h?

[narrow bloom]

aps-h was exclusively canon excluding the ancient kodak digitals

[proven glade]

right, but then you also have the leica m8

[narrow bloom]

💀

[proven glade]

technically the Sigma Quattro H is also APS-H

the non-H is APS-C, or cropped Fovean sized

[errant fox]

will do

[warm hearth]

https://www.sigma-global.com/en/lenses/a023_14_14/

https://www.sigmaphoto.com/14mm-f1-4-dg-a

trying to find the difference between these lenses here.

https://www.sigmaphoto.com/15mm-f1-4-dc-c

not in the system by the looks of it

[errant fox]

yeah wow very similar

maybe regional difference only?

confused why one is discontinued

[errant fox]

https://www.sharplyphoto.com/gear/sigma-15mm-f1-4-dc-contemporary
it's here, not sure why it won't show up in search, looking into it

[errant fox]

one is fisheye maybe?

[jade knoll]

they redesigned the lens recently

https://petapixel.com/2025/09/02/sigma-changes-14mm-f-1-4-arts-design-availability-and-price-to-address-production-woes/

wasn't a big enough change to call it a mark ii

they're the same optically

[errant fox]

so the bottom one is just discontinued

or realyl its the same thing renamed

[jade knoll]

they changed the text on the lens from sans serif to serif and removed dn

main diff is it's made to order now instead of stocked in stores

[errant fox]

ok i just renamed the old one and deleted the duplicate
https://www.sharplyphoto.com/gear/sigma-14mm-f-1-4-dg-art

[jade knoll]

it's the goat astro lens but too niche to keep production going all year so their plan is take orders and make a big batch once a year

[tepid nest]

DN is just their built for mirrorless designation

Not sure why they would remove it though

[jade knoll]

they removed dn on all new lenses since they're not making dslr lenses anymore

[errant fox]

ahhh

[tepid nest]

stupid, I want word vomit for names

[errant fox]

you choose simplicity or accuracy

[jade knoll]

SPORTS

[errant fox]

cant have both

[errant fox]

we really need help with sony 🙏

[small moat]

Whats up mate

With what specifically

[errant fox]

no one has done any sony

its empty

haha

[small moat]

How do I do it

[errant fox]

to find things that need specs go here and filter by brand = sony
https://www.sharplyphoto.com/lists/under-construction

if there's something that's not added to the site yet just ping me with the name of it

images are a little more complicated but there's info about it in the pins if you wanna try

[small moat]

Can we hope on a call and go over one together? It'll be easier to get an idea like that

[errant fox]

sure sure

[small moat]

did a7rv, mostly looked at b&h

i found it easier than sonys website, is it reliable?

@errant fox just did 50 1.8

[small moat]

Did a few stuff

[errant fox]

Sick thanks 🙏

[errant fox]

Yeah for specs most of the time source doesn’t matter

Its generally reliable

Plus it can always be fixed

[errant fox]

Hi friends

Handful of Updates

A couple of nice upgrades over the past week were added, the last of them were just added today

• Global search got a big refresh with smarter suggestions, better keyboard flow, recent searches, and quicker jump-offs to results.
• Search accuracy is better for tricky gear queries like aperture values, and it avoids more irrelevant one-number matches.
• Browse pages now have cleaner sorting/filter reset behavior, plus better mobile search/header behavior.
• Gear card actions are more reliable, including save, wishlist, and collection state.
• Saving an item to a list now includes a quick “View list” shortcut.
• Public profile and list pages have clearer empty states and error handling.
• Compare pages are easier to navigate, with item names linking directly to their gear pages.
• Gear pages can now show trusted creator video coverage when available.
• The catalog was cleaned up with added sensor formats, updated slugs/mount data, and some visual polish to gear cards.

[warm hearth]

https://www.dpreview.com/products/compare/side-by-side?products=sigma_24_1p4_dg_hsm_a_l&products=sigma_24_1p4_dg_hsm_a

Seems to be two different sigma 24mm f/1.4 options for the DG HSM art. One for Leica L only, made in 2019. And the earlier one made for EF, F etc. there's only one option in the database that I can see

[warm hearth]

Or dp review just separates those mounts, I'm not sure

[errant fox]

yes this loooks to be the case

[warm hearth]

Just been going through Sigmas active product page and adding everything

Idk how many I've done 😂

[errant fox]

you're a real hero

[warm hearth]

I'm only at 35mm 😭

[errant fox]

ignore square he's not human

[warm hearth]

Advion wtf

I mean an edit can mean changing one line on a product. But I'll catch up

[errant fox]

there's another metric on the site that counts the lines

more accurate probably

[warm hearth]

Ah, okay, so I'm moving right along then

Not that it matters 😂, what about % of products filled?

Just a general website stat, not per user

Like how far are we?

[errant fox]

yeah i can do that

probably like %20 if i had to guess

or less

https://www.sharplyphoto.com/lists/under-construction

Sigma filled before Sony 🥀

[warm hearth]

Will there be an option for a lens element diagram?

[errant fox]

ehhhh

maybe? i guess we could if manufacturers always provide it and it's free to use

[warm hearth]

Sigma does

[warm hearth]

Sigmas active lenses are done. Moving on to Tamron now. Woo

[errant fox]

@jagged epoch he's coming for your crown

[warm hearth]

How many lines have I done today? 😂

(not coke)

[errant fox]

at least 2200

[warm hearth]

Bruh and he's done 18k?

[errant fox]

yeah like i said not human

[warm hearth]

Camera body's mostly?

[errant fox]

everything

[warm hearth]

Well, I'll be happy in second place for awhile lol

[tepid nest]

He was/is also unemployed and had nothing else going on for a while

[jagged epoch]

Yea I haven't been on sharply for a while, uni and extracurriculars are really filling up my schedule

Let me know when he's within 5k so I can speedrun 30k

[warm hearth]

I probably broke 3k today. I'll probably grind another 2k on Wednesday.

[narrow bloom]

[proven glade]

@errant fox thoughts on adding video support to instagram post builder

[errant fox]

Is this even possible on web?

Like adding a border to a video?

Or reframing it?

[proven glade]

p sure

[proven glade]

adding in a video as part of a post, not a reel

can be containerized in webp

[errant fox]

Hmmm

Could be possible honestly

[warm hearth]

https://www.venuslens.net/product/laowa-8-16mm-f3-5-5-zoom-cf/

Doesn't seem to be in the database

https://www.venuslens.net/product/laowa-6mm-f-2-zero-d-mft/ Or this one

https://www.venuslens.net/product/laowa-19mm-f-2-8-zero-d/

https://www.venuslens.net/product/laowa-12-24mm-f-5-6-zoom/

Non shift version not in here either.

[small moat]

I made it 🙏😭

[warm hearth]

There's more from laowa that aren't in the system. Is there any way I can be able to add items?

[errant fox]

yes you earned it one sec

need to send u dm

cant add friend or send

[warm hearth]

Sent you a friend request

[errant fox]

on admin panel you can click create gear item

there's also a bulk create on the gear tab

it has some bugs

sorry this admin panel is overall a lot less polished than everything else lol

[warm hearth]

Does exactly what I needed to. Tysm

Laowa has so many friggin lenses

Just finished with their landscape lenses

[errant fox]

when adding stuff make sure name exactly matches whatever is on the manufacturer site

only exception we have made so far is sigma "CONTEMPORARY" bullshit being before the rest of the name

[warm hearth]

Yep! I'm just copy pasting right over.

[warm hearth]

@jagged epoch broke 5k.

[narrow bloom]

@jagged epoch get your unemployed ass on sharply rn

[warm hearth]

Nearly broke 6k today

Finished up the laowa stuff (besides their cine lenses) and have been working on Sony stuff

[proven glade]

finished laowa before Sony

all I'm hearing is more Sony neglect

one of the least cared about brands on the platform lol

[warm hearth]

Lmao

Laowa has cool lenses, sony has boring normal lenses

[warm hearth]

I added close to 20 Sony lenses today

Sony's spec sheets are nice and thorough. Which is nice

I feel like I could add lenses in my sleep now

[warm hearth]

It's really quite addictive. Finding all the specs, finishing a lens, and repeat

[jagged epoch]

Are you unemployed

[warm hearth]

No. I work 30 hours a week, + college, + I'm married

[jagged epoch]

Bro why are you grinding ts 💀

[warm hearth]

Because it's fun

Plus one day, when this site blows up, I want to be a part of it

So if I put the effort in now, one day it'll pay off (I hope)

[spare turtle]

Sometimes you just gotta let that completionist competitive tism take over

Bless your soul broski

[errant fox]

Guys I added creator videos section to gear pages

This will show up as video links on the page. Creators have to be allowlisted first. So far I just did Chris Frost.
Feel free to add matching videos to gear pages, or let me know what other creators you think should be supported.

I forget who can access this right now, might just be admins right now but I will move it to editors soon

I think this will be quite a lot easier than going to youtube and then trying to find the right video

[narrow bloom]

chris frost the goat

[errant fox]

Need to add some others tho so it’s not just him

Can’t make him the unnofficial spokesperson lol

[tepid nest]

Ricci for Nikon stuff though maybe make a note that they are a Nikon Educator

Or training specialist

[narrow bloom]

killian

🔥

[tepid nest]

[proven glade]

what AI do you use @errant fox

claudecode?

[errant fox]

Mostly codex

Claude is way too expensive

Uses whole session cost in one task

[proven glade]

[proven glade]

another reason to hate windows @errant fox

why the fuck is curl an alias for iwr

[errant fox]

lol idk man

i mostly use mac for development these days

[errant fox]

wtf man

their search is so jank

[snow yarrow]

im in the admin tab trying to remove a photo but it doesnt let me

[errant fox]

you can add them but not remove

editor role

[snow yarrow]

why do i have the admin button

[errant fox]

which one

[errant fox]

yeah just mean tto be "administration panel"

[snow yarrow]

not a major problem ill add the right photo

[errant fox]

i can change to make more clear

[snow yarrow]

ye maybe like "Admin Panel"

dont worry i fixed it

[errant fox]

it needs to be sideways 😭

[snow yarrow]

really

bruh

[errant fox]

sorry shoulda sent this earlier

very important

if you have no interest in following above just send image here and ill do

[snow yarrow]

is okay ill go through them again and rotate them

but i would like if i could remove photos

a bit annoying if i cant remove them

if i dont find a photo

[errant fox]

main point is just to prevent anyone who decides to go rogue with editor or moderator role from wanting to cause havoc and delete stuff

i guess replace is just as easy tho

maybe even worse 💀

[frosty plaza]

that has a lot of bleed on the edges, is that the best photo of that lens there is?

[snow yarrow]

this better?

[errant fox]

yes good

its tight crop right?

should be no margin

[snow yarrow]

yeah its cropped to content

like this

[errant fox]

shit lens btw

[tepid nest]

Lol

[errant fox]

that yellow "optical stabilizer" is a jump scare

[tepid nest]

Good ol pre 2013 sigma

Or whatever year they redid their lineup and design language for the ART stuff.

Good on them though that turn around was miraculous

[snow yarrow]

is okay?

[errant fox]

looks good

most important thing is white border and tight crop

and not insane image size

[snow yarrow]

no pergear?

[errant fox]

i will add

[narrow bloom]

why is pergear selling viltrox stuff on their website

lol

[errant fox]

China activities

[errant fox]

Horribly low resolution this one

[snow yarrow]

That’s the product photo from pergear 😭

I can maybe try export in 100% quality

[errant fox]

Sometimes you can adjust the url for the image because it has resolution or quality in it

Like &w=500

[errant fox]

@jade knoll https://www.sharplyphoto.com/gear/thypoch-24-50mm-f-2-8

If you’re interested

[jade knoll]

I'll never be interested in a zoom

[narrow bloom]

based

[errant fox]

fair fair

[errant fox]

pretty happy with this

https://www.sharplyphoto.com/exif-viewer

try it out

[versed fjord]

when can i add the sc to my cameras on my profile

[errant fox]

Soon ™

[frosty plaza]

@errant fox once i've tracked some number of exif readings, how do i go back and see them without uploading another photo?

[errant fox]

hmmm true

i will do that

[frosty plaza]

seems to be working though

[errant fox]

yeah its pretty sick tbh

[frosty plaza]

you should add a line for estimated shutter life

either interpret a slope or just have a horizontal line

[errant fox]

that would make the lines themselves way too small, maybe a toggle or something

[frosty plaza]

true

[errant fox]

ill do something like that

[frosty plaza]

or only have it show when you get close

i want to be able to see that but it might panic other people

you should also add a badge for highest shutter count

or badges for milestones

[errant fox]

lol true

[proven glade]

rw2 not supported :(

[errant fox]

What is this

[proven glade]

panasonic raws

[errant fox]

They probably don’t store shutter there but I’ll check

[proven glade]

not usually

[errant fox]

@proven glade can you send me a file

[errant fox]

nvm i found one

so yeah panasonic doesn't store shutter count

but at least i enabled it for the other metadata

[errant fox]

translations coming

[spare turtle]

Oh damn lmk when I can contribute German localisation

[errant fox]

AI is gonna do it but i'll have you double check it

[frosty plaza]

whatever you do, don't have Grok translate it

you'll end up with a site full of slurs

[spare turtle]

Ite

[narrow bloom]

i can double check korean

[narrow bloom]

what if thats what we want

[tepid nest]

So just normal German

[errant fox]

🔥

@spare turtle

I like "Uber Sharply"

cool language

[spare turtle]

the translation looks accurate and also faithful to the tone set in english

i'm impressed

[errant fox]

maybe the hero text could be better? i expect its a bit of a weird translation

i'm fine with having it slightly different for each language i think

[spare turtle]

maybe one or two tweaks to improve intuitiveness of one or two buttons but overall it doesnt feel odd IMO

[errant fox]

"News" doesn't change?

[spare turtle]

you could also use "Neuigkeiten" or similar but the word is more cumbersome, has a slightly different connotation.
It works, I suggest "Aktuelles" which translates to "current things"

but news would be acceptable IMO, most people would get it.

[errant fox]

and "Tools"?

[spare turtle]

mhhhh that one is actually harder to replace succinctly, but "Werkzeuge" is the direct literal translation.

[errant fox]

can this be shorter?

[spare turtle]

I wonder if "richtig schnell" could be "rasend schnell". I'll sleep on that one

[spare turtle]

"Ausrüstungsübersicht" might work, neologism combining "equipment" and "overview". Equipment Overview.

differing connotation

[errant fox]

that's one hell of a word

[spare turtle]

Otherwise, "Alle Ausrüstung" which is just "all equipment"

[spare turtle]

y'aint seen NOTHING >:D

there's no grammatical limit to noun chaining

[errant fox]

wow...

[spare turtle]

usually its a chain of possessives denoting linked features or relations between items

one sec here's a really famous demo example

"Donaudampfschiffartskapitänskajütentürscharnier"

is the door bolt to the captains quarters on a steam boat traveling the Donau river

extend and make more specific ad nauseam

[errant fox]

thats wil

doesnt even fit on a mobile screen

[spare turtle]

love this language. autistically precise but no way to linguistically differentiate a friend and a romantic partner without adding half a sentence

go figure

[errant fox]

I like things like "Lernen"

[spare turtle]

simply "learn (Noun)"

[errant fox]

it left these, is there a reason or should it be changed?

[spare turtle]

simple. effective.

[spare turtle]

Hall of Fame is a known phrase, I'd leave that. The text could add "aus der Fotografiegeschichte" but I think that doesnt really add anything.
Trending too, we use the word Trend too.
Flavour text for trending would be slightly better as "Die aktuell beliebteste Ausrüstung unserer Nutzer" which is more akin to "the currently most popular gear of our users" or "Our users currently most popular gear"

Think that adds to the dynamism of the page, since it updates frequently I suppose

I think specifying activity isnt necessary here. But I'm also not a UX person :)

[versed fjord]

will it drive me to the nearest person with the item im looking at

[errant fox]

what do you make of this

[tepid nest]

Poopensharten

[spare turtle]

Instagram-Beitrag vorbereiten

prepare an instagram Post?

[errant fox]

cooking

[narrow bloom]

where korean

smh

[proven glade]

i18n?

you should steal translation tracking from https://github.com/PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher

[errant fox]

It’s all 100%

AI did it

[errant fox]

Alright guys I added translations to Sharply, they're all deployed now.

The available languages are shown in the image.

If you speak any of the languages please try them out, and if there are any issues let me know

[spare turtle]

Immediate suggestion: Language button up top or at least a quick-scroll button to the bottom

Only reason I thought to look at the bottom (of a very long homepage) was from the twitter symbol on the screenshot

[spare turtle]

Discord Button:

Im "Photography Lounge" Discord kannst du mit anderen Sharply-Mitgliedern chatten, Hilfe zu deiner Ausrüstung bekommen oder selbst andere Unterstützen.
Tritt mit dem "Discord Beitreten" Knopf ein und lern uns kennen! (Im Discord-Server wird ausschließlich Englisch gesprochen!)

meaning
On the photo lounge discord you can chat, get help or help other sharply members.
Join via the button and get to know us! (Discord speaks english exclusively)

I'd change the button to "Auf Geht's!" which is more of a call to action, and a bit playful

I suppose the Gear page isnt translated yet

the flavour text needs to adjust the keywords, and I'd like a search function that is restricted to this list (i.e. looking for all "powershot" keyword articles)

[spare turtle]

@errant fox I feel like there should be some way to add another lens entirely to the database. My beloved Sigma 28mm f1.8 High-Speed wide is not on the list

thinking about it for a second that's probably from me not having admin perms like that kek

[proven glade]

provide one of the sharply contributors with info and they'll be able to add lenses or cameras for you

basic info like lens name

then the rest you can contribute

[spare turtle]

understandable; would be nice to have that as a separate button on the contact form or something findable in the gear list, I only saw "i found a mistake" there

[proven glade]

well technically not having the lens is a mistake?

[spare turtle]

and yea the translations really havent reached far from the front pages, but I reckon that'll come with time

[spare turtle]

Technically yes but the entire form is not particularly laid out for that. Partially larping DAU here - dumbest assumable user

[proven glade]

Jordan is so passionate lol

[proven glade]

https://www.sharplyphoto.com/gear/sigma-28mm-f-1-8-ex-dg-aspherical-macro

[spare turtle]

Nope

that's the new one

i'm talking AF-D era

[proven glade]

can you link

[spare turtle]

I did do my barest due diligence
I can't really find anything except Ebay articles

and the physical one I own

https://www.ebay.de/itm/276185672329?_ul=DE&toolid=10001&customid=eb%3Ag%3Avms%3Aeb%3Ap%3A276185672329%3B

this exact one

[proven glade]

are you talking about this?

film-era lens

[spare turtle]

nope

also newer

[proven glade]

the mk1 of this? cause this is the mk2

[spare turtle]

that might be the case

one second

[proven glade]

this one maybe

[spare turtle]

one even older

didnt realise this fucker was so obscure

the more ya know

https://i-am-henning.blogspot.com/2015/09/altes-sigma-af-28mm-f18-asph-high-speed.html

here's an article comparing it and the mk2

[proven glade]

interesting

[spare turtle]

surprisingly sharp and basically zero CA

[proven glade]

on what camera?

[spare turtle]

D90 and D700 have seen use on it

its full frame compatible

[proven glade]

https://www.sharplyphoto.com/gear/sigma-af-28mm-f-1-8-high-speed-wide

go crazy

[errant fox]

I will consider it but it’s pretty standard practice to expect it at the bottom, and our automatic detection should automatically select the right one, only intentional overrides need to use that

[errant fox]

I think everything but the spec table itself and some various small badges and things haven’t got it yet, did you notice anything else missing entirely?

(News articles and learn pages are a later issue, separate system)

[spare turtle]

The entire "All Gear" page, the contact page, user profile

Articles and learn I assumed as much

[errant fox]

User profile should be?

Gear page I thought I did it but it got reverted rip

Badges I guess got missed

[spare turtle]

couple of placeholder texts got missed

I actually weighed the 28mm on my kitchen scale kek

[gusty yoke]

Where Poland? 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

[proven glade]

you should have an option for a flag next to the username in user profile

[errant fox]

to change site language or just a display of their locale?

[proven glade]

just a display

[errant fox]

hm maybe

its not stored in db rn

[errant fox]

i'll consider it

[proven glade]

@errant fox how do you have your portfolio

[errant fox]

wym

for photography?

[proven glade]

yes

[errant fox]

nothing great honestly

[proven glade]

maybe you should give sharply a portfolio section with a subscription for any significant amount of photos uploaded

[errant fox]

yeah i actually already started a prototype of this

i think it would be a separate project but under the same LLC if it ever comes to that point

[proven glade]

I'm deploying this atm https://p.ecarry.me/

[errant fox]

i got demotivated when i discovered Format though
pretty decent site

[errant fox]

that's quite adventerous haha, cool though

[proven glade]

will have to check it out

I don't like how these tiers are priced

[errant fox]

yeah same
i'll finish mine eventually but idk, its a super saturated market for portfolio builders, and i'm not very passionate about it

[proven glade]

not having a $5.99ish tier is disingenuous

[frosty plaza]

this is insane

just build host your own

[proven glade]

70 photos for $10 a month is crzy

having that tier just justifies the next tier over

[frosty plaza]

yeah it's just marketing

[proven glade]

I don't like the sincerity of this pricing model, therefore, I'm out

[errant fox]

i mean why do you need more than 70 photos on your portfolio lol

[proven glade]

if I have 8 photos a post on instagram 10 posts is already my entire portfolio

[errant fox]

yeah lol

[proven glade]

I shoot events, I don't take 3 photos per event

[errant fox]

i think i have like 30 max on my portfolio

1500 is absurd

[frosty plaza]

i...need to slim down my portfolio

[proven glade]

this is just how I find cool projects btw, doomscroll github

I might make an Android app that just generates short form content to doomscroll for cool github projects

idk how I would monetize it though in any way possible to pay for server costs lol

[errant fox]

These are my notes:

# Vision Statement

Trellis is a fast and easy way to create a beautiful home for your photography. It handles the structure and presentation so you can focus on choosing your best images.

# Content

The content structure should be designed in a way that the user just defines it once and it works cleanly with any theme, with some small adjustments if needed, mostly toggles and enable/disable options. Themes will just determine on their own where specific content should be rendered. All themes should try to support all content, and any that don’t should specify this clearly on the UI.```

didn't think about pricing at all

probably just one tier honestly

tiers in general piss me off

[proven glade]

idk what trellis means, therefore I'm out

if you need a masterclass on KISS design and naming, visit flathub

[frosty plaza]

this looks really nice but my genres are too all over the place for a site like this

my site has categories (that i need to add to and refresh)

[errant fox]

yeah having many genres is a big problem

i deal with it a lot

i don't personally like having multiple genres on one site, i feel it looks unprofessional

right now i have 2 different portfolis

[frosty plaza]

though now that i think about it, i could probably just consolidate down into a handful of similar-enough photos, i could mix genres in one display

[proven glade]

your website should be like a myspace

edit it, don't pick a template

[frosty plaza]

i never used myspace

[proven glade]

uhhhh

[errant fox]

old guy exposed

[proven glade]

cool projects you'll never hear about cause it's on github and written by a chinese guy

https://github.com/qingshangongzai/Color_Card

[errant fox]

pls send more stuff

githubs discovery surfaces are total trash

only way to find cool stuff is by people sharing it

[proven glade]

https://qingshangongzai.github.io/Color_Card/

no locale either

[errant fox]

https://github.com/xemle/home-gallery

[proven glade]

installing ghost right now

probably gonna use that with a theme for my portfolio

[errant fox]

what is ghost

the social manager thing?

[proven glade]

no, ghost is a node.js based cms

here read their blurb

[errant fox]

ah cms

the most doomed genre of software

looks good tho

[proven glade]

ehh, at least it's not wordpress

I was looking at github while I was typing that message

I need a 7 year break to reconnect with nature

[errant fox]

yeah trash

[proven glade]

gotta do the 7 day at work 7 years vacation method

[errant fox]

my job just created a "new" intranet site

i was like wow finally we can have smething decent

nope it's wordpress

[proven glade]

pretty quick to setup

[errant fox]

that's what our "software modernization unit" is working on

does it work as a site builder for portfolio?

[proven glade]

well, it's a sitebuilder, the question's rhetorical

but yes, I chose Ghost cause there's a few themes around for photographers

not that Wordpress doesn't have themes

but I've also used a few CMS's and Ghost is pretty decent

oh yeah ghost has a photography category for their themes marketplace

[errant fox]

yeah that's not bad a all

[proven glade]

thanks to your tool I have every instagram post in zip form in my downloads lol

[errant fox]

that tool is geniuinely fire

i use it every time i post

[proven glade]

really low friction way to social media

I also like the fact it's privacy respecting

imagine that, privacy respecting analytics

or, well, however close it gets to the paradox

[errant fox]

lol

[proven glade]

@errant fox pumping them out

https://devonlabs.space/christ-music-festival-25/

[frosty plaza]

hey i use "depot" for my deliverables website

[errant fox]

https://sharplyphoto.com/about

https://github.com/Flohhhhh/sharply

[errant fox]

germany is funny bro

JA JA JA JA

[proven glade]

@errant fox oh yeah, Ghost is part of the social web

which is a fancy word for the new federated social media standard

so now I can read up on posts on "the social media"

very cool that it's from mostly likeminded people, filtered immensely by the effort it takes to set this up

[errant fox]

I will have to research this

[errant fox]

moving on up

[narrow bloom]

hell yeah

@errant fox does this count electronic as well 💀

87k sounds about right if counting eshutter as well

[errant fox]

yes, but it should specify

maybe canon doesn't

or, i haven't set it up yet

[narrow bloom]

my mechanical sc is like under 200 lol

[errant fox]

can you find those in the fields below?

[narrow bloom]

lemme check 1 sec

[errant fox]

and lmk what the field is for canon R cameras?

[narrow bloom]

also 1dx2 shutter count doesnt work for some reason lol

[errant fox]

also looks like lens and aperture weren't captured if you can find the keys for those too

[narrow bloom]

when it literally shows sc in-camera

[errant fox]

older canon DSLR don't support shutter counts on raw files

[narrow bloom]

ah

[narrow bloom]

nah i was using FD

lel

[narrow bloom]

i ctrl f'd "count" and only got "ShutterCount" that's 87k

[errant fox]

rippo

[narrow bloom]

is it possible to get the mechanical and electronic separate?

not urgent just curious lol

[errant fox]

if you can find it in the data sure

[narrow bloom]

i didnt even know canon counted electornic shutter count

[errant fox]

i just need to know the key name

this is how it looks for me

[narrow bloom]

ah

[errant fox]

if its not present in the data in "full metadata" then it's just not available

but if it is just have to find the name

[narrow bloom]

[errant fox]

could be named some dumb shit like "m_shutterCount" or who knows what

[narrow bloom]

yea i dont see it

[errant fox]

sadge

[narrow bloom]

i also searched "count"

[errant fox]

typical canon L

[narrow bloom]

real

[soft wharf]

what exactly is sharply

i made an account a while back cause why not but idk what to do with it

[errant fox]

https://sharplyphoto.com/about

TLDR: open source, crowd-sourced gear database

intended as a better solution than privatized review sites

[soft wharf]

how long does it usually take for an image to be uploaded for a piece of gear?

[errant fox]

• a bunch of modernized versions of popular tools that were made in 1920 and are really unusable

[errant fox]

as soon as someone here does it haha

[soft wharf]

im so cool

[soft wharf]

just submitted a bunch of stuff

have fun reviewing

[proven glade]

@errant fox format error?

[errant fox]

yes

its stored in cents

[proven glade]

thats...

[errant fox]

... the industry standard

[versed fjord]

[narrow bloom]

nobody cares

im just hating

🔥

[jolly quarry]

doesnt even say my number

[errant fox]

Weird

[proven glade]

also second person in the thread, og status checks out

when I first noticed sharply

3 days before thread

https://tenor.com/view/glass-champagne-animated-tray-of-bubbly-toast-cheers-gif-15395745

[small moat]

Kinda chopped on mobile lol

Mine doesn't either say

[soft wharf]

Im #57

@errant fox how would i know if a lens has diffractive optics

and rounded diaphragm blades

[errant fox]

Canon and Nikon usually advertise this

[soft wharf]

and sony?

[errant fox]

Who cares knows

The lens optics charts may say

Better to just leave unknown than guess

[errant fox]

were you also on mobile?

[jolly quarry]

no

pc

[frosty plaza]

mine doesn't show it on mobile or pc, i swear it used to

[errant fox]

damn

mine shows

so going to be impossible to debug this

[frosty plaza]

rip

[narrow bloom]

cooper

[gusty yoke]

just use pc version of the website, as I do

BTW, that shutter counter is so fire, I didn't saw anything like that on internet

I mean that loads of informations

Very good idea, floh

[frosty plaza]

it's not a new concept

[gusty yoke]

where do you found smth like that?

[errant fox]

wym

[frosty plaza]

there are dozens of shutter count checker tools online

[errant fox]

but this one is mine

[gusty yoke]

exactly

[gusty yoke]

But I didn't saw the one which shows you the whole info in raw files

Like focus distance etc.

[errant fox]

like half of them do

[gray nebula]

New gen

[gusty yoke]

BTW, is it possible to connect that shutter count to item added to profile?

[soft wharf]

that's a really cool idea

@errant fox do that

[errant fox]

Soon

[errant fox]

this turned out to be more complex than i wanted

but ill do it at some point

[proven glade]

https://keepandroidopen.org/

[soft wharf]

what the hell

also when sony 200-600 picture

[errant fox]

Google best company

[jolly quarry]

is this good or bad

[spare turtle]

This is incredibly Bad.

[spare turtle]

Imagine Nikon cameras suddenly shutting down when you add a third Party lens.

[jolly quarry]

oh

[spare turtle]

Not quite that extreme but its Akin to Nikon being able to decide what third party gets to work on their cameras.

As opposed to compatibility or your choice

[errant fox]

Someone add this!

I can do soon if not

[errant fox]

i added it

[jolly quarry]

how muc his it

[errant fox]

unknown

just a development announcement

[jolly quarry]

ah

[errant fox]

singapore carrying sharply traffic

[soft wharf]

where's germany

[errant fox]

get active bro

[soft wharf]

i check every few days

im still waiting for the sony 200-600 picture

[errant fox]

help find it

[soft wharf]

how

[errant fox]

pinned message

[soft wharf]

i can only request

gimme perms

[errant fox]

you can just send it here to make it easier for us

[soft wharf]

ok

[errant fox]

either processed or jsut the raw image

[soft wharf]

ill process it for you

[soft wharf]

is sharply being advertised in some way?

[errant fox]

Not yet

Really need to figure out consistent review content and article content

I’m no writer

And writers are hard to come by

And I can’t pay them yet

[proven glade]

bro posting search impact like we're the board of investors

[tepid nest]

I am

[soft wharf]

@errant fox idk where to upload it

photoshop is so bad

look at this shit

i will genuinely slime whoever at adobe thought its a good idea to let the quick selection tool change everything i just adjusted when i adjust a pixel on the other side of the image

i give up

looks kinda bad

thats better

or is it

idk

sony doesnt wanna provide good images for this one but it does for the damn 16-50 kit

[narrow bloom]

ends are looking a bit goofy

other than that its fine id say

[soft wharf]

the original image is just shitty quality

[narrow bloom]

💀

ah yes the sony 2-6

🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

[soft wharf]

lmao

shits not working anymore

uhhhh

ok it worked

yeah no the website is broken

or maybe not

who knows

[errant fox]

doing what

[soft wharf]

submit specs

but i think its working again

[errant fox]

how are you managing this

just do "select subject"

[soft wharf]

gng i did

i did it again

why is it so much better

i did the same thing

70-350

[errant fox]

Can you send full name

I don’t know Sony like that

[soft wharf]

Sony E 70-350mm F/4.5-6.3 G OSS

[soft wharf]

Sony FE 200-600mm F/5.6-6.3 G OSS

[soft wharf]

Sony E PZ 16-50mm F/3.5-5.6 OSS

[errant fox]

All webp right

[soft wharf]

yes

under 1k px

[errant fox]

Sony moment

A lot of the Sony ones were actually already transparent if I remember

[soft wharf]

this has to be a troll right

[soft wharf]

none but the kit lens were lol

[soft wharf]

wait im dumb this is transparent

Sony ZV-E10

Are there any plans to add stuff like tripods to sharply?

atleast well known ones

[errant fox]

Not sure maybe

[soft wharf]

backpacks would certainly work as an addition

or bags in general if someone is using a pelican or something like that

[errant fox]

wtf is this bro

lol

[soft wharf]

only "official" zve10 image from the front

its a vlogging camera thats why

[errant fox]

We can’t use it

[soft wharf]

i could try to crop out the screen

is the deadcat on top fine?