TIme to split SL/SL2?

[Einst_Stein]

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Should there be a dedicated group for each (major) model? Like M forum?

 

[Leicaiste]

They use the same lenses. 

[Joakim]

If anything forum groups for older M generations like M9 and M-240 should be merged together eventually as new generations come along

[Jeff S]

4 hours ago, Leicaiste said:

They use the same lenses. 

As do the M models, including film.

Jeff

[Einst_Stein]

5 hours ago, Joakim said:

If anything forum groups for older M generations like M9 and M-240 should be merged together eventually as new generations come along

That might make the group too big.

Conceptually, camera models with major differences could be split, such as CCD or CMOS, sensor size, monochrome or color, lens mount,  etc. There will be grey area whether a feature is a major difference, such as pixel count, IBIS or optical stabilizer, EVF or OVF. Those can be dealt with later till the group becomes too large.

[Joakim]

You can't just divide by technical aspects, older generations of cameras will have fewer users and thus less activity in the forums. But my main point is if you have to many sections/groups in a forum it gets annoying and hard to follow (and post correctly) for those of us that might be interested in several areas.

One clear example for me is Leica Monochrom cameras, I rather have one forum for them since many discussions like filters and post processing can be relevant for any monochrome camera regardless of model and of course if you are using one like I do, the M-246 in my case, even discussions about the other models can be interesting and worthwhile to follow. All which would be much harder and time consuming to do if everything is split into tiny fragments.

Edited March 30, 2020 by Joakim

[scott kirkpatrick]

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When a new model arrives it is valuable to separate out all the discussion about how it works, its merit and demerits.  And providing a thread for pictures taken with the new wonder is always appropriate, making them easy to find.  But after that I would think all older models should merge into a single community.  The SL2 is sufficiently close to the SL in its working habits that they constitute a single community.  There can always be threads, should we someday be so lucky, on the merits of the multishot high resolution feature or the clever use of low power Blue Tooth to geolocate pictures, features that only the SL2 promises to offer.

[DadDadDaddyo]

At this point the differences between the SL and SL2 do not seem significant enough to fork the groups. 

From a Information Science perspective, there's a lot of justification for classifying by lens mount (available adaptation notwithstanding). The goal of any such information classification or grouping (again, from an I.S. perspective) is to facilitate retrieval.

Not time to split yet...

Stay well, all!

Dad... Dad... Daddyo

[MarkinVan]

I have both and am happy to come to just one forum

[Arrow]

Identity in difference! 😎

[Exodies]

Nonsense. It’s time to split. Those ridiculous hump backed SL1 people and their easy geo tagging must go.