How We Score Compatibility

Most gear compatibility advice on the internet is scattered across Reddit threads, YouTube comments, and forum posts from five years ago. Some of it is right. Some of it is wrong. Almost none of it tells you how confident to be.

We built this site because that's not good enough — especially when a wrong answer means you spend $200 on a microphone that doesn't work with your camera.

Every compatibility claim on this site has a confidence score. Here's exactly what each label means and how we earn it.

Confidence Labels

Verified

Confirmed directly from manufacturer specifications or official compatibility documentation. Connector types, power requirements, protocol support — these are facts from the source, not opinions. If a mic requires 48V phantom power and your camera doesn't supply it, that's not a community opinion. That's physics.

High Confidence

Five or more independent sources agree on the same claim. Reddit posts, YouTube reviews, forum discussions, product Q&A — when five separate people with no connection to each other report the same result, we call it high confidence.

Community Report

Two to four independent sources agree. Likely accurate, but not yet enough evidence to call it high confidence. Shown with the source count so you can judge for yourself.

Unverified

A single source reported this. We include it because the information may be useful, but we show it with a clear caveat. Treat it as a lead worth verifying, not a guarantee.

Conflicting

Sources disagree. Instead of picking a side, we show you both claims, explain what each side says, and note where the disagreement comes from. Sometimes compatibility depends on firmware version, hardware revision, or a specific setting — and the conflict is actually both answers being correct in different conditions.

Inferred

Derived from comparing manufacturer specifications of two products. No community confirmation yet, but the specs point clearly in one direction. Common for straightforward cases like connector type mismatches or power requirement gaps.

How Claims Get Added

Every compatibility claim goes through a review process before it appears on this site. Community-sourced claims are never published automatically — a human reviews the source, the snippet, and the claim before it goes live.

Manufacturer specs and official documentation are the foundation. Community data builds on top of that foundation, never replaces it.

How Claims Get Corrected

Every compatibility claim has a Flag as Wrong button. One flag automatically drops the record to Unverified and puts it back in our review queue.

When we find and fix a mistake, we say so. The correction is noted on the record: what it previously said, what it says now, and why it changed. We'd rather publish a visible correction than quietly update a record and pretend the error never happened.

What We Don't Claim

We don't claim to be infallible. Gear changes. Firmware updates break things that used to work. New adapters create compatibility that didn't exist before. A Verified record from two years ago may not reflect a product's current firmware behavior.

If you find something wrong, flag it. That's how the database stays accurate — not just from our research, but from every person who uses it and knows their gear.

The Standard We Hold Ourselves To

A record labeled Unverified that turns out to be correct does no damage. A record labeled Verified that turns out to be wrong destroys trust.

When in doubt, we show less confidence — never more.