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Bill De Jager:

--- Quote from: Ilkka Nissilä on March 22, 2023, 11:54:31 ---I always felt that dpreview had too much of a focus on equipment and articles seemed to be written in order to promote the sales of new equipment rather than advancement of the reader's photographic skills. They did publish occasional articles on photography topics but not all that many.

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That was also my impression, but on the flip side they did very thorough camera reviews that seemed well grounded in comparing a given model to past models and to current competing models.  I found they would catch things that more casual reviewers would miss.  Most of us eventually get a new camera at some point (though perhaps less so going forward as sensor improvements have largely plateaued) and I found the thoroughness and impartiality of DPR's reviews was a real help in making those decisions.

In the future, with DPR gone, with Thom Hogan bound to scale back his Nikon commentary at some point, and with Lloyd Chambers reviews being a quality but expensive service, there are going to be fewer sources of detailed camera reviews that can be trusted to be reasonably thorough and impartial.

I didn't find their lens reviews as insightful or helpful.


--- Quote from: Ilkka Nissilä on March 22, 2023, 11:54:31 ---I think the DPR user comments on articles and the equipment forums contained a lot of inappropriate comments and contentious debates where there was not a lot of consideration given by posters to other points of view. A lot of the fighting was very unpleasant to read and yet it was not moderated out. It would mean I would only rarely dare to peek into the forums, expecting a lot of insults and fights between the users of different brands or products to pop up. This isn't the way a good forum functions.
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I shied away from participating there for many, many years for that reason, finally starting up only a few years ago.  During my time there I did notice that they finally seemed to be cracking down on some behavior of this sort in at least a few fora.  Most of the commentary is fairly useless but there have been some nuggets of value along the way.  You really have to read comments there with a skeptical eye.

Øivind Tøien:
Some news here, not sure if that includes archiving/trannfering the old site (would be most interesting) or just restarting the fora. I am citing the text as the link will go away when DPR shuts down:
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4705915#forum-post-66962353

--- Quote ---bobn2 • Forum Pro • Posts: 71,896
***News on DPRevived.com***
Following the thread on a possible successor to DPReview discussed in this thread:
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4705507
Here is the news.
Three proposals have merged efforts.
The new site will be DPRevived.com, not as originally advertised PhotoForums.com.
There is an interim site https://cameradiscussion.createmybb4.com/index.php hosted by Alansh. This can be used for ongoing discussions. Registrations and posts will be migrated to the long-term site.
ComeHither has created a registration page for the new site. This will be available on DPRevived.com when the name servers sort themselves out. During that the email management@DPREvived.com won't be reachable, so pleas have patience.
I'll post again when it's back.
Also, we've been in toch with Soencer and Nasim at Photography Life. They are also proposing a solution, hopefully that will be included under a single banner.
This looks like it might work.
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Edit: It looks like it is just an attempt to start another forum without archiving plans, so not that interesting at this point.

pluton:
DPReview was, at one time, well-stocked with teenagers---or adults with teenage brains---and there was a lot of stupidity.
Lately I have gotten a nostalgic feeling when I Google search something and the results include a DPR thread with posts I made in it 10 or 15 years ago.

Snoogly:
Some news, at least, about the camera and lens info/review database:

https://youtu.be/f9MG9XVVvCc

Øivind Tøien:

To save others from spending time on the whole video, here is the link to https://digicamfinder.com/ that allows searching the web archive for specific DPR camera reviews. However the image comparison tools are not working at this time and other images are only working on the first two pages of the D500 review that I checked out. So it could look like the archiving does not go very deep or is not complete yet.

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