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Amazon.com announced on Monday that it has acquired Digital Photography Review, also known as Dpreview.com, a London-based site that specializes in reviews, information, news and discussion forums pertaining to the digital-camera market. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Jeff Bezos, the online megaretailer's founder and CEO, said in a statement that Digital Photography Review is "by far the most authoritative source anywhere for straight talk about new digital cameras." Dpreview, which was founded in 1998 as a hobby by Phil Askey and, according to the site, now employs several other editors, plans to continue to operate independently. Amazon has not otherwise stated specific plans for its new purchase.
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- What about Steve's Digicams?
- I'd say Steve's Digicams is just as good (if not better) than DP Review. DP Review's not really the authoritative source if you ask me...
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- Just great
- There goes DPReview, down the tubes. I loved that site. Now it's gonna be biased and full BS. Stupid Amazon, they should stick to selling things.
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- DPReview.com: Comprehensive, but Biased
- I've used dpreview.com for years and found Phil's coverage of the digital photography industry to exhaustive and comprehensive. In his reviews, though, I have always detected what I feel is a bias towards Nikon and Canon and against Fuji in one critical area: flesh tone reproduction. In virtually every review of a Canon or Nikon product, the sample photos almost never contain any humans, just scenery or objects. Yet, almost every Fuji camera review contains multiple images of humans. As a portrait photographer, the reproduciton of skin tone is a critical factor in my choice of eqiupment. Canon cameras, especially at the very high end of the line have terrible skin tone reproduction and require extensive post production manipulation. In general, even cheap Fuji "pocket" cameras do a better job. I wish that Phil's otherwise excellent reviews reflected this information. Congratulations to Phil for successfully turning a hobby into a lucrative sale.
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