The Decline Continues

In my Thom Hogan's Complete Guide to the Nikon D750 he mentions 'D810' on several occasions where he obviously should have mentioned 'D750'. 😄

We are not shooting with glass plates as the recording medium , or have you not realised it yet.
ive still noticed that ISO is in the image data. Lead from example if you are correct.

Functional Stupidity.

This is described by functional stupidity experts Mats Alvesson and André Spicer as ‘the stupidity paradox’. Alvesson and Spicer wrote the definitive paper on functional stupidity in 2012, A Stupidity-based theory of organisations. “We spoke with hundreds of people in dozens of organisations,” Spicer wrote. “During the course of our research, we were constantly struck by how these organisations, which employ so many people with high IQs and impressive qualifications, could do so many stupid things.”

You have just discovered what one of my jobs is 😂

Functional stupidity - people in an organization or a company do exactly what is expected of them uncritically, without pausing for thought.
That's exactly the opposite to Bob's MO.

A model used by lab test based audio site Audio Science Review www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?reviews/ is to review stuff readers send in on loan. It seems to work as plenty of people seem willing to box up their stuff and send it in for review. I see that some of the lens reviews on Phillip Reeve.net seem to be user supplied gear as well.

Yep. Particularly with the older books that transitioned from print, I never got the time to go back and do corrections. Even books I've redone several times I'll still find something that needs fixing.

Did not stop me from enjoying the book, Thom.

A lot of it has to do with how (and who) you approach, and how your credibility is perceived.

This gets back to goals. If you can outline what the goals of the site are, how reviews will be handled, etc., you can present in a way they'll take seriously. But it's another of those chicken/egg things. To get started you have to get started.

Thanks, but it still bothers me.
One way I try to make things move forward with few errors is by templating. I'll often keep the previous camera book open as I create the new one, which means that recent books tend to get updates (eventually). There's a file sitting on my drive of all the things that still need updating, though.
Oh, and that's another thing that bothers me: Web sites I refer to go dark and software gets deprecated/replaced. The number of things I have to check on every pass on a book is getting ridiculous.

Thom sent me his guide to the Nikon D1x over 20 years ago.
I must have read that book a million times, and… I didn’t notice any errors that I recall.

I still have the book, and the camera - - yes, it runs on a pair of 18650 Li-ion batteries today. lol

oh… I found a wonderful online photo "tutorial" for replacing the internal clock battery.
www.flickr.com/photos/nieljohn/albums/72157603758438197/with/2597951102/

Can you still access the CD? Could've used that book when I went from full manual Nikon FM, Hasselblad and Sinar to the D1, had a steep learning curve...

Interestingly enough, I just clicked on my bookmark for IR, and was redirected to Outdoor Photographer. Kind of confirms that IR is gone.

As it should be because it is the relationship between exposure* and image lightness with the aim to output an average 18% grey image.

But you can also adjust the image lightness with ISO without altering the exposure* at all.

* exposure - amount of light that struck the sensor per unit area while the shutter was open
** optimal exposure - the maximum exposure* within dof and motion blur requirements without clipping important highlights.
*** under exposed - more exposure* could have been added with the DOF and blur constraints still being met without clipping important highlights.

Bobs Quote.
However, I had a project going on at the same time. I find myself increasingly intolerant of the rubbish peddled by the bulk of photographic web sites. It's very hard to find one that doesn't get the very basics of photography wrong. And if they get the absolute basics wrong, how can you trust them not to get everything else wrong?
This is like saying every camera manufacturing company that ever existed is wrong. because they all say the same thing. ive even read film camera manuals where they say the shutter/aperture and asa/iso dials are mechanically connected together. how much more info is needed.

What are you saying the camera manufacturers' engineers and/or scientists are saying that is all the same?

I haven't met one yet that doesn't effectively say that exposure is the amount of light that struck the sensor per unit area while the shutter was open.

the problem is, just shutter + aperture combined are useless. without iso, exposure has no practical use. thats why 99% of all sites and camera / lightmeter manuals site 3 adjustments not 2.