<story><title>DPReview.com to close</title><url>https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnvanommen</author><text>I have a $600 DSLR that I bought at Costco on a whim, fifteen years ago. Once in a blue moon I look at my old photos and realize they just look night and day better than anything I&amp;#x27;ve taken in the last decade. Camera phone lenses do alright when it&amp;#x27;s sunny outside, but DSLRs kill it when it comes to medium and low light.</text></item><item><author>bradlys</author><text>a &amp;quot;boom&amp;quot; is an overstatement. The camera industry overall is dying and struggling. We&amp;#x27;re down to something like 10% of camera sales from 2010. There is no boom. There is a transition from DSLR to mirrorless for the few existing dedicated camera photographers out there.</text></item><item><author>asdff</author><text>The thing is, there&amp;#x27;s another boom currently going on. The mirrorless boom, and this site is the gold standard for that one as well. Now there is no home, and its much harder to gleam the differences that are actually meaningful between these many mirrorless cameras (and new dslrs that do get made).</text></item><item><author>giobox</author><text>I do think times have changed though, DPReviews fortunes arguably have mirrored the fortunes of the ILC (interchangeable lens camera) market. The site (along with flickr.com...) was a daily visit for me 15 years ago at the height of the DSLR boom, but I honestly now can&amp;#x27;t remember the last time I checked.&lt;p&gt;ILC&amp;#x2F;DSLR annual sales volume peaked in ~2010 I believe, and has rapidly declined ever since really, another victim of the rapid pace of improvement in smartphones. If we are being blunt, Amazon bought dpreview to use as a sales funnel for DSLRs and cameras, which they simply don&amp;#x27;t sell so much of anymore. A sad day though.&lt;p&gt;I know dpreview covers cameras beyond ILCs, but ILC reviews where always by far the most popular content on the site - in the DSLR boom&amp;#x2F;Phil Askey years it simply was the gold standard in DSLR reviews. I still remember pouring over the classic battle between Canon&amp;#x27;s 300D and Nikon&amp;#x27;s D70 for entry level 6mp DSLR supremacy constantly on dpreview circa 2003&amp;#x2F;4.</text></item><item><author>ragona</author><text>Dang, I&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;s always extremely informative.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;s VP because we wanted to turn off a product with eleven daily users. 11. The number after ten.&lt;p&gt;A whole lot more than eleven people used DPReview, and they provided a service that I&amp;#x27;m not sure is well replicated from other sources. A loss for the internet, and it makes me sad that these kinds of quasi-public-good projects are getting canned across the industry.&lt;p&gt;I get that big companies are not retirement homes for nerds but... with as much profit as the profit centers bring in, there was a little wiggle room for passion projects. Now it feels like that wiggle room is being squeezed right out of the industry as we all brace for the recession that hasn&amp;#x27;t quite shown up yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>duffyjp</author><text>I have an entry level Nikon paired with their F1.4G 50mm lens.  It takes staggeringly good portraits in any conditions.&lt;p&gt;DPReview was of course my primary source of information when choosing equipment.  Sad indeed to see them shutter.&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nikonusa.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;nikon-products&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;camera-lenses&amp;#x2F;af-s-nikkor-50mm-f1.4g.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nikonusa.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;nikon-products&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;camera-le...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>DPReview.com to close</title><url>https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnvanommen</author><text>I have a $600 DSLR that I bought at Costco on a whim, fifteen years ago. Once in a blue moon I look at my old photos and realize they just look night and day better than anything I&amp;#x27;ve taken in the last decade. Camera phone lenses do alright when it&amp;#x27;s sunny outside, but DSLRs kill it when it comes to medium and low light.</text></item><item><author>bradlys</author><text>a &amp;quot;boom&amp;quot; is an overstatement. The camera industry overall is dying and struggling. We&amp;#x27;re down to something like 10% of camera sales from 2010. There is no boom. There is a transition from DSLR to mirrorless for the few existing dedicated camera photographers out there.</text></item><item><author>asdff</author><text>The thing is, there&amp;#x27;s another boom currently going on. The mirrorless boom, and this site is the gold standard for that one as well. Now there is no home, and its much harder to gleam the differences that are actually meaningful between these many mirrorless cameras (and new dslrs that do get made).</text></item><item><author>giobox</author><text>I do think times have changed though, DPReviews fortunes arguably have mirrored the fortunes of the ILC (interchangeable lens camera) market. The site (along with flickr.com...) was a daily visit for me 15 years ago at the height of the DSLR boom, but I honestly now can&amp;#x27;t remember the last time I checked.&lt;p&gt;ILC&amp;#x2F;DSLR annual sales volume peaked in ~2010 I believe, and has rapidly declined ever since really, another victim of the rapid pace of improvement in smartphones. If we are being blunt, Amazon bought dpreview to use as a sales funnel for DSLRs and cameras, which they simply don&amp;#x27;t sell so much of anymore. A sad day though.&lt;p&gt;I know dpreview covers cameras beyond ILCs, but ILC reviews where always by far the most popular content on the site - in the DSLR boom&amp;#x2F;Phil Askey years it simply was the gold standard in DSLR reviews. I still remember pouring over the classic battle between Canon&amp;#x27;s 300D and Nikon&amp;#x27;s D70 for entry level 6mp DSLR supremacy constantly on dpreview circa 2003&amp;#x2F;4.</text></item><item><author>ragona</author><text>Dang, I&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;s always extremely informative.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;s VP because we wanted to turn off a product with eleven daily users. 11. The number after ten.&lt;p&gt;A whole lot more than eleven people used DPReview, and they provided a service that I&amp;#x27;m not sure is well replicated from other sources. A loss for the internet, and it makes me sad that these kinds of quasi-public-good projects are getting canned across the industry.&lt;p&gt;I get that big companies are not retirement homes for nerds but... with as much profit as the profit centers bring in, there was a little wiggle room for passion projects. Now it feels like that wiggle room is being squeezed right out of the industry as we all brace for the recession that hasn&amp;#x27;t quite shown up yet.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FollowingTheDao</author><text>The only people who think Smartphone Cameras take better pictures than SLRs are not photographers.&lt;p&gt;It is not just low light, it is depth of field, exposure control, the minimization or absence of computed exposures.&lt;p&gt;I have an iPhone 13 Pro Max and only shot in RAW mode. That is the best I can do. Saving money fro a mirrorless camera so i can start shooting again.</text></comment>