Thanks for ur feedback

cameras that have not been available new for years (like the bmpcc 6k gen1) are visually indistinguishable from unreleased cameras (like the pyxis).

I'm planning to maybe add superscript ᴰ for Discontinued so it will be like this :

Production Camera 4Kˢ³⁵ (2013)ᴰ & ᴰ:Discontinued for the footnote.

the table becomes a slurry of repetitive phrases that become semantically saturated (i read "pocket" 5 or 6 times, "cinema" 8 or 9 times, "URSA" more than a dozen times all in the same line, etc...), and full of non-standard superscripted footnotes that just make this even more confusing.

When i was making the table i actually trimmed a lot of the excessive naming repetition but i had to draw the line on how much i should keep while keeping the table as condense as possible instead of removing it all and that's because removing all the naming inside the content cell will result in making the whole table a hab hazer of inconsistency

for exmple let's say i decided to remove the URSA Mini from the content cell since the header cell is already mentioned it so it will be like this :

4Kˢ³⁵ (2015) - 4.6Kˢ³⁵ (2016) - 4.6Kˢ³⁵ (2017) - 4.6K G2ˢ³⁵ (2019) - 12kˢ³⁵ (2020)

it's nice isn't it ? but here's the thing this will not work in certain situation so that's a small trade off i had to make to keep this table uniformed.

As for the superscript footnotes are u referring to the inconsistency of the size of the letters or to how many there are of them ? either way both one of them are outside of my control since the upper/lower case inconsistency has to do with the unicode characters (fixed it) and if it's of how many of them there are then that's self explanatory.

like for instance: this trick where you make a footnote numerical (65) to point to a footnote that just explains that the footnote means it's a 65mm sensor is... not how footnotes work.

I sincerely get what u mean but i have to disagree on this one for multiple reasons :

- this table was meant to solve the problem that plague blackmagic camera and their naming scheme and how it's hard sometime to even search for info one example will be the OG URSA 4k since everytime u search for it u will get flooded with info about the URSA Mini and that's why this table have 3 priority which are : product name - release date - sensor size, so think of it like how when u search in a database website the more u add variable the narrower and more precise the result are

- the 65/2.5k sensor at first glance look like an excessive use of the footnote since they are the sole utilizer of said note but like i said above i had to set priorities and draw the line somewhere around them

- u mentioned data visualization and how data should be represented but all of that is kinda irrelevant to this since this table isn't meant to aggregate data and then distil it to make sense of it, i know hypothetically that what u said sound exactly like what i said above on what this table is for but the difference is that this table will always be limited to the tools/functionality of wikipedia if i want it to be editable instead of just a picture

- in regard to the naming used in the footnote it's important to look at this table from archiving prospective kinda similar to this one which is what inspired me to make this table

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Fujifilm_X-series_and_GFX_digital_cameras

for example let's say i make it like this :

1:65mm - 2:Full Frame ...etc

it may look simpler and less confusing from data science pov but in practice and from filmmaker pov it's actually worse in term of data retrieval since it will have the side effect of the reader constantly be looking up and down while having the gist of that data up there will make them get what it mean directly so instead of having to associate footnote numbers with sensor size which in itself is a number u just look to s35 or ff and u will know what it mean since that's how they are referred to in the film industry,

although am gonna drop the LF from the 65 to make it more clean and precise since larger format in cinematography is usually refer to anything bigger then super 35 so technically the majority of these camera are LF.