So sad! What else can be compared to DPReview?
All the big tech have destroyed smaller sites and the independent thought 😒
That's why we are all expressing our shock and dismay right now: nothing -- as far as I know, no other site can be compared to DPR in terms of the snapshots of photographic history they have captured through these past 25 years: they were starting out at the beginning of the whole digital photography thing, and people were talking about Nikon's Coolpixes, Sony's Mavicas, Canon's Rebels.....the very first digital SLRs....and from there everything took off as, slowly and with some skepticism we began shifting our attention from film, and then it seemed as though suddenly we were all excitedly exploring the new and intriguing world of digital photography as more and more technical advances made that possible. WOW. That was a time.....
But that was only the start. Eventually manufacturers and some photographers moved into the interesting new format of 4/3 and m4/3, a world unto itself with a lot of advantages. Then eventually came yet another whole new era, the one where APS-C camera bodies were suddenly smaller and lighter and there was -- gasp! -- no mirror! What happened to the optical VF? What was this weird EVF? All of a sudden there was this whole new world for photographers to explore now, too..... Of course, Full-Frame bodies weren't all that far behind..... And, yes, people are still exploring mirrorless technology now as they decide where they want to go with their photography in the future and which gear really serves them the best in the kind of images they like to shoot and present.
DPR escorted us out of Usenet and the alt.photo.rec Wild West era and took photographers, both professionals and amateurs alike (well, the ones who were around at the very beginning) through all of this, from back in the late 1990's and into the early 2000's and of course all through the first decade and into the second and now we're moving beyond.... and we learned and we explored and we talked about the impact of the changes, we tried the new gear when we were ready, and opinions and ideas were flying all over the place even as people also were looking to DPR to learn about the latest new camera body or lens that might be just what they needed to move forward with their photography.....
We looked, we learned, we sometimes argued or asked too many questions, we wanted reviews and we got them, and we wanted more content in different formats (video) so we got that, too, and DPR was always there, one way or another..... Amazon has announced that they are killing off an extraordinarily valuable (but also at times controversial) internet historical and contemporary resource for photographers. This is just sickening.
