Tuesday’s news caught us – like many of you – by total surprise. It took us a while to wrap our heads around what was happening. The leading digital photography technology site DPReview.com, a mainstay of the Internet since the 90s, is closing. From April 10, there will be no new content, and for a “limited time” after that, it will be taken offline completely. Here’s my opinion on that breathtakingly stupid move (I guess you can tell where this is going… ). DPReview has been on top of my bookmark list for as long as I can remember. Founded in 1998, when I was just a teenager already interested in cameras, with no certain trajectory or plan to become a professional director of photography yet, DPReview were one of the first to take the nascent digital cameras category seriously – at a time when a 1 Megapixel cameras with JPEG compression were the best you could get. Amazon acquired DPReview 16 years ago and then forgot about it Back in 2007, when DPReview was already a Fortune 500 company, though not nearly as ubiquitous as in 2023, they were acquired by Amazon. You could tell by founder and CEO, Phil Askey’s comments on the acquisition that he was simply happy to focus on what he and his team did best: making some of the most extensive and detailed written camera reviews in the world. No frills content, fact-based, and minus the “ego” from reviewers that we so often get...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 23 March, 2023