Talk:DxO Labs

Request for update: What is the origin of "DxO" in the name? Something with "digital" and "optical" possibly? Thanks.

Camera ratings

This is an article about a company called DxO Labs. This should of course include a discussion of its services (e.g. DxOMark Scores) and its products (DxO Optics Pro etc.). However, I don't see that the results of its tests belong here. After all, the articles on Consumer Reports don't include product ratings and neither the Fortune (magazine) article nor even the Fortune 500 article includes the actual list of the Fortune 500. --Macrakis (talk) 03:24, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

Initial the article is about the company merely, but today mostly about the product and I (and I hope the others) will add gradually as I can. Please noted that DxO Labs is about laboratory testing and not talking about features, conviniences and also the receptions. One thing when I contribute in this article is the term of 'It is Digital World' and it is different with Film Camera when I first use my Film Praktika SLR (East Germany camera with m42 mount). So, I hope readers can know well about the digital technology. The key is sensitivity of the sensor, smaller sensor with high capabilities, mainly in ISO Rating, because light is the important thing. Lens is also important, big diameter lens will give more light, but small sensor not use big diameter lens and also today's lens even the smallest are almost all good not depends on Leica lens anymore. The film difficult to tolerate 1 stop under/over exposure and photo paper only tolerate 1/2 stop under/over exposure, but today's digital camera can tolerate up to 3 or more under/over exposure and can be processed after, if use RAW. Thank you so much for your input and query.Gsarwa (talk) 03:11, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Covering the company DxO and its products and services (software, lab testing, etc.) clearly makes sense for Wikipedia.

On the other hand, copying its test results for large numbers of cameras and lenses into this article does not seem to be within the goals of Wikipedia; see WP:NOT.

As for the rest of your message above, I don't see its relevance to this discussion. --Macrakis (talk) 04:35, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Maybe is too much, but maybe not. DxO Labs test about 240 cameras and almost 5,500 Camera & Lens Combination Tested. If it too much maybe someone can make it concise with still quote the essential things. Thank you.Gsarwa (talk) 05:37, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

I am not questioning the quantity of information. I am questioning whether its reviews belong in this article at all. I think it makes perfect sense to include the DxO ratings under individual cameras and lenses. It might even make sense to consolidate them in an article on Camera and Lens Ratings, which would include results from multiple sources (e.g., photography magazines, consumer publications, etc.). But as I mentioned before, we do not (and should not) include listings of Michelin ratings of restaurants in the Michelin Guide article and so on. --Macrakis (talk) 17:44, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

I concur that none of the tables of ratings are relevant to this article. It is possible that a separate article (List of large sensor interchangeable-lens video cameras and similar) might make use of this information, however in the form it is presented here it is simply an inferior parroting of information available on DxO's own website. 76.118.1.171 (talk) 19:33, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Maybe you are right. I wonder, if the article should be split to new article: Sensor Ratings and Camera & Lens Combination Ratings. The title maybe is too long, but there are two ratings, Sensor Ratings and Camera & Lens Combination Ratings. For Camera & Lens Combination Ratings is likes One to Many, One camera with many lenses including from the third parties. To split Sensor Ratings and Camera & Lens Combination Ratings into 2 articles maybe is not wise, because both has strong relation. To combine both ratings into one table will get difficulty, because there are One to Many pattern. The article also write about sensor quality growth, fast lens, zoom lens, etc. DxO Labs result is a public domain, but we cannot copy directly the graph without any edit. Thank you so much for your attention.Gsarwa (talk) 07:25, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

I agree with the others that the camera/sensor/lens test results and analysis does not belong here, for three major reasons. 1) As stated above, this information says absolutely nothing about the subject of this article, DxO Labs, and therefore it is irrelevant. 2) This level of detail is not appropriate for an encyclopedia. 3) This is your analysis of DxO Labs raw test results and is considered original research... please read WP:SYN. 184.209.0.24 (talk) 22:39, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

The detailed analyses belong in a blog or maybe wikibooks. They have been removed from this article. 108.114.8.169 (talk) 01:08, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, I agree with this edit. --Macrakis (talk) 14:13, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Technology and the Image quality

This section is simply some notes about the current state of the art in digital camera technology. There is no information about the technology that DxO specifically uses in its analysis of lenses and sensors. They do have a few articles on their site (http://www.dxomark.com/About/In-depth-measurements) about the testing methodologies. Information from these articles, backed up with independent sources, would make this section relevant to the article. 76.118.1.171 (talk) 19:33, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your opinion. Certainly the background is important, how measurement and so on, but please be patient. My aim today is to describe that the digital photography is (totally) different with the film camera. Film camera has no sensor, but sensor is important for the digital camera more than lens which the most important of film camera is the lenses. The mindset should be changed. IMO many readers needs the results more than the background and more difficult to make the readers understand, if the background is writing first, because many young peoples today never use film camera and directly go to Automatic digital cameras, they lose something. Digital photography is still developing and many new things will be found continuously. However the background is important, mainly if you want to be an expert, so I will please, if many people also write about the background, in fact I have written a few background in the whole article, but not in certain section, just for the illustrations.Gsarwa (talk) 01:52, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

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DxOMark split from DxO Labs in 2017

According to their website https://corp.dxomark.com/about-us/ DxOMark split from DxO Labs in 2017. Therefore this page appears to need updating. As for the products, pages exist for Nik Collection, DxO ViewPoint, and DxO PhotoLab, but the two others simply redirect back to DxO Labs - which is odd. Considering DxO has been around for 20 years it seems strange that so few updates have been made. Wonderconboy (talk) 15:48, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

I reckon Adobe pays to have admins delete the competition 37.71.191.227 (talk) 10:10, 25 May 2023 (UTC)