This post is rather personal to me as the site DPReview (Digital Photography Review) is shutting down on the 10th of April. The site holds a personal place in my heart. Besides, when I started considering a career path in photography, that was where I got all the information I needed about cameras and their strong points and what to and to not expect. The site made me the editorial writer that I am and taught me what to look out for in cameras.
I vividly remember getting the Canon G10 in mid-2017 and racing to their site to read their take on the mid-ranger point-and-shoot; quite frankly, so did many people. In the 25 years that the camera review site has been operational (the company was established in 1998, right when digital photography was taking off), they’ve been a one-stop house for reviews, a high-quality image gallery so you could inspect the imaging capabilities of a camera before you got it.
Apparently, Amazon is the parent company that owns DPReview.com, and the company decided in their annual review to shut the site down alongside its subsidiaries (the DPReview TV Channel on YouTube). In line with this, the site will shut down on the 10th of April, 2023 (just a couple of weeks from now).
To the photography community worldwide, this is a great loss. Tons of information, reviews, op-ed pieces, and images, all gone in a couple of weeks. So should you need to research something or you just want to say goodbye, the site is open until the 10th of April.
