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DPReview to close

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

From DPReview:

After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview will be closing in the near future. This difficult decision is part of the annual operating plan review that our parent company shared earlier this year.

This is sad news. There was a period of my life where I was on that site at least a couple of times a day, absorbing reviews of everything from camera bodies and lenses to accessories. 

Whilst it’s been a while since I was deeply in that world, I would still check in once a week to take a look at what was going on and see the gear that I would covet.

I’ll miss it.

The site will be available in read-only mode for a limited period afterwards.

I understand that there’s a considerable amount of content and it probably gets a significant amount of traffic, but there’s no reason a site which is no longer updated can’t be permanently maintained by the company which owns "the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform".

One bit of good news - Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake are moving to PetaPixel to lead their YouTube channel.