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

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