No frills content, fact-based, and minus the “ego” from reviewers that we often find from self-proclaimed camera testers on YouTube these days.Īmazon acquired DPReview 16 years ago and then forgot about it. You could tell when the founder and CEO, Phil Askey commented on the acquisition saying 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.
Amazon acquired DPReview 16 years ago and then forgot about itīack in 2007, when Amazon was already a Fortune 500 company, though not nearly as ubiquitous as in 2023, DPReview was acquired by Amazon. And this at a time when a 1 Megapixel camera with JPEG compression was the best you could get. Founded in 1998, when I was just a teenager interested in cameras, without a trajectory or a plan to become a professional director of photography, DPReview was one of the first to take the nascent digital cameras category seriously. Here’s my opinion on that move (I guess you can tell where this is going… ).ĭPReview has been on top of my bookmark list for as long as I can remember.
There will be no new content after April 10, and after a “limited time” it will be taken offline completely. The leading digital photography technology site, a mainstay of the Internet since the 90s, is closing. Tuesday’s news caught us – like many of you – by surprise.
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