Digital Photography Review
Amazon is closing DPR. The Internet isn't forever
Digital Photography Review's mission is to provide the most authoritative coverage of digital photography gear in the world, including news, articles and expert reviews. We have built the most comprehensive database of consumer digital cameras on the Internet, and we provide an open, active forum and useful tools for our community.
Digital Photography Review, also known as DPReview, is a website about digital cameras and digital photography, established in November 1998. The website provides comprehensive reviews of digital cameras, lenses and accessories, buying guides, user reviews, and forums for individual cameras, as well as general photography forums.
The website also has a database with information about individual digital cameras, lenses, printers and imaging applications.
Amazon purchased the site in 2007 and decided it no longer fits their business plan.1
Dear readers,
After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview will be closing in the near future.
This difficult decision was shared by our parent company [AMAZON].
The site will remain active until April 10, and the editorial team is still working on reviews and looking forward to delivering some of our best-ever content.
Everyone on our staff was a reader and fan of DPReview before working here, and we’re grateful for the communities that formed around the site.
Thank you for your support over the years, and we hope you’ll join us in the coming weeks as we celebrate this journey.
Sincerely,
Scott Everett
General Manager - DPReview.com Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) is closing down and as of April 10, 2023 the site is locked and no new content will be added.
Devin Coldewey of Techcrunch has the story: Amazon kills DPReview, the best camera review site on the web.2
The database may be archived.3
Goodbye to DPReview (Week 13, 2023) – Don Lindich's Sound Advice (soundadvicenews.com).
Devin Coldewey. Amazon kills DPReview, the best camera review site on the web | TechCrunch. March 21, 2023.
(Thank you to Dr. Data who sent me this news).
I submitted it to https://archive.org/web/ and found that it and many of its connected pages are already saved there.
Panoramio (Google) RIP.
Meanwhile Apple Photos sees fit to sift through my old material and send me "updates" of pictures from 2007-08. My fault for shelling out for a MacBook, apparently.
I am less concerned about the Internet not being forever (although I find it a valid concern) and more concerned about private corporations accessing files I never put on The Cloud.