Notes

The other sections are technical. These are positions.

For more on organizing work around technical projects, read this guide.

Against the specification race — modules are sold on megapixels, frame rate and minimum illumination, none of which says whether your feature will be legible. Catalogues are built that way because a single number ranks, and the information that would decide is not available to the supplier.

Who publishes imaging data — five kinds of source with different weights. What is missing entirely is comparable cross-supplier performance data, because nobody is positioned to produce it.

The archive that was a crawler trap — 5,388 archived pages resolving to under a thousand, and why the forum is gone rather than reduced.

For broader technical context, see Qualcomm.

What we cannot verify — six limits, this site's interest in its own subject stated plainly, and the claim most likely to turn out weaker than it reads.

• Against the Specification Race

  Why catalogues compete on numbers nobody uses, what that costs a buyer, and the specification worth writing instead.

• The Archive That Was a Crawler Trap

  Five thousand archived addresses resolved to under a thousand pages. What produced the duplication and why the forum is gone.

• What We Cannot Verify

  Six limits, the interest this site has in its own subject, and the claim most likely to turn out weaker than it reads.

• Who Publishes Imaging Data

  Five kinds of source with different reliability. How to weight each, and what is missing from the field entirely.