DPREVIEW.com to shut down and close
To see the update to this, go HERE
Amazon (parent company and owner) has informed DPRreview, the largest photography website in the world (www.dpreview.com) that started in the late 90s, that it intends to shut down and close the website effective April 10th of 2023.
The message from DPReview posted on their site states the following:
Dear readers,
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.
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
Below is the farewell video from Chris and Jordan:
But wait, there’s more! Jordan and Chris are moving to PetePixel where they will continue to produce camera and lens reviews:
My relationship goes back further than most with DPReview. The site was actually up in 1998 more as an experiment by Phil Askey and officially started in 1999. I found it from a link at Luminous Landscape, a website that was also launched around the same time. I have visited DPReview almost every day since!
I sensed something was wrong because the pace of updates at DPReview had slowed in recent weeks. I attributed it to just a slowing of the camera and lens news but I guess I was wrong, unfortunately,
Maybe with the fortune that Phil made from the sale, he could use those proceeds to repurchase DPReview. One can only hope!
RIP DPReview.
Today, Nikon releases new version of NX Studio, now with support for the Nikon Z6III and other changes and fixes. Today, Nikon makes available a new version of their NX Studio software, version 1.7.0
Nikon has announced the new Z6III mirrorless camera. Full specs will be released on June 17th, at 8AM ET.
Nikon has announced the new Z6III mirrorless camera. Full specs will be released on June 17th, at 8AM ET.
I was not familiar with Condor Airlines so I did a bit of research. Condor was founded in 1956 in Germany. According to it’s website, it’s Germany’s “most popular leisure airline”. The unique strips livery was introduced in 2022 to “Introduce a new brand identity: Inspired by parasols, bath towels and beach chairs, Condor now wears stripes in five colors. This illustrates the development from a leisure airline to a unique and unmistakable vacation brand.” The green and white livery in the photo I captured is their Island color theme.
Today, Nikon issues a firmware update for the Nikkor Z 180-600mm lens with the following changes: Fixed an issue that focus may be inaccurate at a focus distance of infinity with a focal length around 400mm to 600mm in a low temperature environment.
Nikon removes all website and social media references from all Nikon USA ambassador pages.
Combining the features in Capture One Pro, Capture One Enterprise along with some new features, Capture one has bundled these into a new product, Capture One Studio.
Nikon realizes that their current crop of ambassadors are too old to resonate with younger photographers, their new target market, so they retain young “Nikon Creator partners” to solve the problem
Changed the default values for the following settings displayed when connecting wirelessly:
- Encryption keys
- The password displayed after the camera's default settings are restored
• Fixed the following issues:
- Green color casting occurred with some pictures taken.
- The date and time set in camera sometimes would not be correctly applied.
- Using [Picture review] to view an image in a “tall” (portrait) orientation and zooming in the image prevented the display from being scrolled to the intended direction with multi selector or sub-selector.
- After a firmware update, the eye sensor sometimes would not function and the viewfinder would not turn on.
- The “i” menu would sometimes remain in the viewfinder when it was looked through after the shutter-release button was pressed halfway to exit the “i” menu viewed in the monitor.
Welcome to Robert G Allen Photography. I'm a professional multi-disciplinary commercial freelance photographer based in the Pacific Northwest and a Nikon DSLR Enthusiast.
While my career has primarily been as an event photographer, this website represents other areas of photography for which I have professional competency and enjoyment. The resulting front page gallery and single subject galleries are the result of a combination of client assignments and personal areas of interest.
Today, Nikon Launches a f/1.4 Prime Lens, a First for the Z Mount System (with sample photos)