I need your feedback: Analog Camera and Film Website/App

[shootfilm]

Hey, film photography lovers!
I need your help for an analog photography related side project of mine.

I am a freelance web-developer and currently working on a website/web application that conveniently shows all available analog cameras out there and additionally provides detailed information about a camera's specification. The goal is to make the entry to analog photography easier by showing what's out there and informing people on what kind of camera they should buy or not. The same concept will be applied for photographic film. I have always been a film photography fan, in fact even though I grew up with digital cameras, the first camera I picked up was a Canon AE 1 Program and I still only shoot film.

I want to make this website as awesome as it gets and that's where I need you!
What do you think of this idea? And more importantly, which camera specifications (e.g., ISO, Shutter Speed, Filmtype, etc.) and which features (essentially things/functions you can perform on the website) would you like to see?

Would love to hear from you.

Perhaps the best way to structure the comments would be to follow the following scheme. Feel free to comment without it, though.

1) My opinion about the idea:

2) Camera specifications:

3) Website features:

4) More:

 

[dmr]

Is this gonna be something like camerapedia or camera-wiki or whatever they are calling it this week? If not, what would the differences be?

What I might suggest, to get people interested in analog photography is to emphasize general concepts, as opposed to listing gear.

 

[Kino]

"shows all available analog cameras out there"

I don't mean to be a stick in the mud, but this is near impossible, if you mean this literally.

You might have "top 10 ___________ beginner cameras suggested" for SLR, Rangefinder, View, etc., etc., but even this would be very difficult.

Cameras have been made for over 200 years. Practically, if you even restricted your site to cameras produced post WWII, it would be an outrageous effort.

 

[DF]

I'm going to be painfully honest.
There already is one - it's called EBAY

 

[AgX]

Cameras have been made for over 200 years. Practically, if you even restricted your site to cameras produced post WWII, it would be an outrageous effort.

About 40,000 models have been made...

 

[removed account4]

sounds like a fun project !
what might also make it a lot of fun
is to get people's actual reviews of these cameras
and films and lenses and "stuff" too much on the web
is official techno speak made by the makers or the people
being paid by the makers as official influencers, yes, that's right
to reinforce what the makers said ...
real life actual people saying " i know they say this xyz camera is
a dream for any photographer who likes abc .. but after using it for
4 months i have learned it has to be used with a magestic tripod because
the camera is so large i have to wear wrist splints, and it is impossible to focus
even with the "bright screens" the influencer recommends buying ".

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Specifications are worth only so much. Experience of using the camera and its history are more interesting to read.

Look at sites such as 35mmc, Cameraquest, and Karen Nakamura's photoethnography.com site as examples. Also, there's the vast and wonderful MIR (photography in Malaysia) site for reading about cameras, lenses, and systems. There are even Ken Rockwell's pages on film cameras.

 

[shootfilm]

Thank you so much guys! You were absolutely right. There are already a lot of wikis etc. out there and also the "specifications are worth only so much" argument made a lot of sense.

I shifted my focus now on solely analog film and you can find the forum thread here:
https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/i-need-your-feedback-on-my-film-exploring-website.166075/