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Hd tag tyoutube6/2/2023 ![]() It’s like a crack addict knee deep in $100,000 gambling debt plumbing the depths of his sofa for 50 cent pieces. The fact that Amazon felt the need to make a cost saving here is just absolutely mind-blowing. All the years of investment, hiring and acquisitions (especially during covid) were funded on cheap handouts and a form of corporate communism – at very low interest rates and now it’s not quite so economically viable is it?ĭPReview have a tiny small team of staff, and some Canadian freelancers on YouTube. ![]() It is not surprising that DPReview didn’t seem profitable enough for Amazon to bother to maintain.īut things must be A LOT worse in the tech sector than people think. See, this is what happens when you take journalists for granted, attempt to puppeteer them like shills and basically just abuse the entire internet like it is the unpaid PR division of your camera company. If DPReview is going to be deleted off the face of the earth, the camera industry will be a huge loser in this. Obviously a great loss to the camera industry Whenever you need the quick facts and specs sheet of a camera a quick Google of the model name of the camera and DPReview was all that you needed and it is shocking that this staple of online camera information is at risk of vanishing from Google’s index, to be replaced by endless clickbait and YouTube videos instead which take forever to get to the point. There is a real risk all of that will now go on the trash. ![]() At one point I myself worked for DPReview and contributed at the height of the DSLR video movement in the mid 2010s to reviews for such cameras as the Canon 5D Mark III and Panasonic GH4.įor 25 years thousands upon thousands of camera nerds contributed to DPReview with billions of man-hours worth of knowledge on the forums. It surprises me a lot, and somewhat angers me to say the least, that nobody has tried to sell the site before they just trash the place.įor 25 years every camera release was recorded, tracked and in most cases written about in-depth on DPReview starting as far back as the late 1990s with the site’s founders in London. Perhaps Roger will give it a go at LensRentals? Will a suitable buyer step forward? One that understands the importance of objective, factual, written tech journalism? These were the primary thoughts I had upon hearing the news that DPReview will be closed by Amazon. This site belongs with *us* the camera community and I don’t care at all that Amazon paid a nominal sum for the website in the heyday of the DSLR revolution, it is pocket change for them, genuinely valuable for us, and besides OUR culture is not yours to vandalise or chuck in the trash. DPReview is not a pair of underpants a customer sent back that you will now toss into the mountain of unwanted products at the back of the warehouse soon to be taken to landfill on a dying planet.
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