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How does Snapsort pick "winners" and "losers"?
its not at all clear to me...nor do i see it explained...on what basis snapsort picks its "winner" and its "loser" for a side-by-side comparison. i just compared a canon s90 and a nikon d300...(both of which i own)...and snapsort declared d300 the "loser." love the tool, nice elegant site...lets just have a little explainer or some transparency wrt this piece of the side-by-side comparison. thanks.
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Hi Walden, we've just rolled out a huge update to the site, you can read about it here:
http://blog.snapsort.com/2010/06/snap...
The update includes detailed explanations of how the winner and loser are chosen, and will customize the winner/loser to your criteria from previous searches!
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Hi Walden,
You raise a very good point, we plan to add more details to improve the transparency.
We're also talking about identifying which camera was winner/loser in different categories, e..g maybe the D300 takes better pictures but the S90 is better for travel (since its small). Thoughts?
The way Snapsort picks the winner is by adding up the scores for pros and cons of each, whoever has a greater total is the winner.
The current site has a bit of an issue, point and shoot cameras often beat out SLR cameras (as in this case) because there are more pros for them, e.g. point and shoot cameras score well on "macro photography", "zoom" since they have lenses.
We're close to releasing an update which improves this, so that when two cameras are compared, the winner and loser is chosen based on features they both have.
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Hi Walden,
You raise a very good point, we plan to add more details to improve the transparency.
We're also talking about identifying which camera was winner/loser in different categories, e..g maybe the D300 takes better pictures but the S90 is better for travel (since its small). Thoughts?
The way Snapsort picks the winner is by adding up the scores for pros and cons of each, whoever has a greater total is the winner.
The current site has a bit of an issue, point and shoot cameras often beat out SLR cameras (as in this case) because there are more pros for them, e.g. point and shoot cameras score well on "macro photography", "zoom" since they have lenses.
We're close to releasing an update which improves this, so that when two cameras are compared, the winner and loser is chosen based on features they both have. -
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Strange. The Nikon D90 "wins" over the Pentax K-7, even though it seems that the K-7 has more "pros" and higher stats. The only rating higher for the D90 is "low light", but they both have the same ISO ratings. How are those determined?-
I think they D90 and K-7 end up with scores that are almost identical, but the D90's is slightly higher. The "low light" score is calculated based on maximum ISO, type and size of the sensor, which are almost identical for the two cameras.
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Hi Walden, we've just rolled out a huge update to the site, you can read about it here:
http://blog.snapsort.com/2010/06/snap...
The update includes detailed explanations of how the winner and loser are chosen, and will customize the winner/loser to your criteria from previous searches!
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I really appreciate this website because I can trust that it is not coerced by advertisers to sway results. As a video professional, however, I'd like to point out that auto focus during video record is a nuisance. I appreciate that many of the at-large consumers would rather use auto focus than manual, but every professional I've talked to or read from would never use auto-focus while recording video. Including my-self. Control is the key. Using auto-focus to check focus is the extent I use it on the 5D.
I would not suggest you ignore auto-focus during video record entirely in your reports, but I would definitely not put a premium on this feature.
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Then, you can start out with your default chioces, but let us customize the criteria.
@Anderson: thanks!
For example, the Nikon d60 supposedly "beats" the Nikon d80, despite the fact that the d80 is a whole class above the d60. The comparison completely glazes over the fact that the d80 has an internal focus motor (thus giving it full use of more than twice as many lenses as the d60) or that its popup flash operates as a Flash Commander for the Nikon wireless system. There are HUGE wins that the comparison completely overlooks.
I applaud the effort to simplify that labyrinthine mess that is understanding camera specs, but considering the fact that review sites and mags that measure things down to the tiniest quantifiable minutiae STILL have trouble declaring one camera a "winner" over another (because there are so many facets to consider), I think it actually does more harm than good to make such a polar call on something that barely scratches the surface of a camera's capabilities.
What MIGHT work, however (though this may be more work than you're looking to invest at this point) is to have categorical winners and losers. For example:
"For the SOCCER PARENT, Camera X's video features and the built-in Sport Mode make it a better candidate than Camera Y.
The STUDENTs out there will appreciate Camera Y's significantly lower price point, and the articulating LCD means self-portraits with your friends will be so much easier.
Meanwhile, WEEKEND WARRIORS ..." and so on.
This would be especially useful to the people who want/need someone to tell them which camera is better than which: casual shooters.
Seasoned photographers just want numbers and they'll draw their own conclusions. But for "regular" folks that don't really care about sensor size or burst rate or any of that, telling them which camera is best *for their needs* would be a huge selling point for the site.