TIL they've been owned by Amazon since 2007 https://www.dpreview.com/articles/1690663587/amazonacquiresd...
Will miss this site a lot :(
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#32Been a reader for all 25 years, sad.
It has been slowly dying since AMZN purchase, and I wonder why they did in first place.. maybe were paying too much out to DPR in affiliate link income? lol.
The larger problem is long-form written word reviews are dead due to the ad monetization models favoring video content. So now we all need to sit through 40min YouTube videos of blathering.
It does also seem like yet another signal that FAANG is killing off all the weird "how does that make any money" side projects they've collected over the last 10-15 years.
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#33I am shocked. I'm about to release (...well it's technically released but not yet finished) a product in the photography space, cameralenspicker.com. I saw DPReview as the #1 "competitor" in the space, and reading this is well... like hearing your #1 competitor is dead. It really makes me wonder where this industry is headed if they're shutting down.
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#34This is one of the sites I still looked on camera reviews, sad to see this go. I never really cared for "community" reviews, or the user generated content, but the ones made by their team. I wonder what the review team is going to do? Usually how these end up is that those old habits are hard to kill, and the review team will return if not with the same name then under different name. I don't know how they owned things, but best would be to give out the site for their team, remove all the community features etc.
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#35Their test scene and side-by-side comparison across camera settings was a great feature. I would never have purchased any of my standalone cameras if it hadn't been for DPReview.
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#36Sad news, this was my favourite site 15 years ago when I was into photography. It was the only website that you can read clear spec about cameras and see a gallery of photos taken by it.
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#37Sucks. Got a great advice on the camera there. Loved the YT videos. I doubt it'll be the end, though, as there seems that there's still need for such site (or at least I hope so).
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#38Dang, I'm actually surprisingly sad about this. DPReview is _the_ site for extremely detailed analysis of cameras. When I want to buy something I go through their report first, and it's always extremely informative. It feels like this kind of layoff is part of an end of an era. Amazon used to NEVER cancel projects that customers were using. They just straight up Did. Not. Do. It. I once had to get approval from my VP…
You're spot on, this is _THE_SITE for extremely detailed analysis of of cameras/lenses/etc. I have no idea what will end up filling the gap of losing something like this. I hope Chris and Jordan continue on their Youtube journey and make the content they've been making, but man, there's still a need for a detailed text based site with super indepth info about modern camera equipment. Such a bummer.
While I agree that there is some valuable content on the site, there are certainly others to fill in the spots...
You want detailed look into equipment? Checkout Ken Rockwell's site[0], or byThom[1]
[0]: https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/reviews.htm [1]: https://bythom.com/reviews--books/index.html
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#39Amazon is the worst
After 2 day delivery became 5 day delivery I canceled my Prime. (I get deliveries from Japan faster than I get them from a warehouse in the next state.) I am in the middle of cancelling all my recurring bills from AMZN (Pillpack, AWS) and I recommend that you do the same. I can't wait to hear them say on CNBC that Prime cancellations exceeded additions.
Same here. After 15 years I cancelled it.
Also their market is now full of counterfeit and Chinese crap that you can buy cheaper on AliExpress.
BHPhotovideo is the place I do most of my electronics shopping these days.
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#40Quite shocking, why not just sell it or cut staff. The site has to have significant monetary value.