In with the new: dpreview forums expanded

Sounds exciting! I'll just wait and see.
I also have one suggestion: Please, get rid of "Yop Poster" section! Any troll or else can sit and put a word or two for each thread and have his/her name on the top. This is not a "Contribution" at all!

Thanks for consideration!

Re Burnett: add Aperture3 to that list or as a separate forum and it would be a great service. Personally not keen on phones. Off topic for me.

The For Sale/Wanted forum seems to have been hastily thrown together. Currently cannot search solely within that forum (doesn't even appear as an option in the search menu system) and there's no way to filter the threads based on manufacturer. Without these essential options the For Sale/Wanted forum won't be used for much, if anything at all.

And phones?

What about a "Digital Imaging Technology" discussion forum :) ...

Still no Sigma lens forum????

This is kind of unsettling for a few reasons.

dpreview has made it clear that they have limited reviewers often in explanation for cameras not reviewed. Anymore completed careful reviews are available on other sites for weeks before dpreview gets beyond their hands on preview. The Panasonic G3 for instance.

Now printer reviews are to be taken up apparently. The first review, on a<digital>photography review site, reviews the scanner portion, which would not be used for digital cameras, of multipurpose printers and not the printer portion which might be used to print digital photographs. Huh? Actually one can get more balanced printer reviews on computer sites like MacWorld.

This just looks like an expansion for the purpose of expanding the clicking on Amazon.

As there's no edit function, I'd just like to add one more thing on the subject below:

As this is a global website, when does 'travel' photography start and stop? If I take a picture outside my house it's a 'street' shot, to a person visiting from another country it would be a 'travel' picture. Just thinking out loud about the nature of travel in this globalised society in which we live.....

It's great to have photography forums. The reason we're all here (photos) tended to get lost among the gear threads in the past.

My only suggestions maybe looser categories. Landscape and travel seem to be the most forced match, being that a lot of travel photography could also be seen as Portrait and People, or even Documentary and Street.

And a documentary is a series of photos documenting a story, so could therefore fall under almost any of the other categories too. (It's just that many documentary photographers choose 'street' style photos.) I think less, but broader, categories would be better, personally.

Still no moderation.

Good job. I have a feeling that challenge voting system overhaul is right around the corner.

No INFRA RED forum :(
and no Holga forum ;P

It's time

Great work DPR crew. Of course, you can't make everyone happy, but nice to see you are trying.

You might consider an astrophotography section. Cloudy Nights is of course the best place right now, and probably in the future, for this could be good for "dabblers".

Good work folks.
I did kinda of wondered, at times, why such a mainstream site did not have a buy/sell category. I haven't got a clue as to the logistics involved in operating/moderating which is likely a big part of the reason why I could only wonder.
Real glad to see you DPReview are always evolving/improving.
I was referred to DPReview (London Drug camera salesman) about 9 years ago and am glad to be here still.
Thank You DPReview.

Nice to see all those new forums, but how can you moderate them all, moderation did not work with less forums, it is not easier now. I hope not by deleting more threads.

It will be interesting (in positive sense) to find out what kind of topics forums will have in the future.

Thanks for the new additions. Always good to see DPR moving forward and willing to implement changes.

I think the For Sale forum is pretty funny. All the comments I read here about people dropping their cameras/lenses onto concrete or into a lake would probably make this my least looked at forum. I think a buyer feedback section would be a necessity. This could go a long way to helping eliminate the unscrupulous sellers.

Will there be a place on the For Sale forum for commercial vendors? Some of them, like KEH, I actually trust. I could see this being a big money maker for DPR/Amazon if you sold space to commercial vendors to hawk their used equipment.

The previous setup meant that you only ever really saw pictures taken by the camera you use because most people usually frequent on their camera's forum. This change means that we can now see pictures regardless of the camera used which in my opinion is an excellent idea.

I miss the "Sigma lens talk" and "Tokina lens talk" or at least "3rd party lens talk"

It would be great to have a business forum (how to make money with your photography) as well.

All the best,
CF

If the For Sale/Wanted Forum picks up and is a genuine spam free zone, and maybe categorised (Country specific? Brands? Accessories, and so on) this will be a very welcome addition.

I recently got another bill from eBay for various camera sales and was shocked at the cost.
Has anybody else felt the recent price changes at eBay? It's become almost prohibitively expensive to sell equipment there now.

Brilliant. It was about time we had an actual place to discuss photography instead of gear.

I welcome the innovation, at least I will not more miss (with a ratio of 2:1) the Micro Four Thirds Talk forum by scrolling too fast the mouse: now it is in straight vertical line to the forum tab. :-)
Apart from this little joke, it seems big news, and like HSway wrote, "nothing can be lost but only gained on this innovation".
Bravo to DPReview!

Excellent idea and a move that certainly was supposed to be made.
And tremendous influential potential of course. No matter how they turn out eventually, nothing can be lost but only gained on this innovation.
Best,

Hynek

Congratulations! The Photography & Techniques group is particularly welcome.

Cheers!

Sounds good.

would be good to see a forum where brand specific photos could be posted, eg put camera brand in title of post. People camera hunting want to look at more pics than sample galleries, but the gear related forums don't always welcome picture threads. So where can one go to see Brand X photos taken by DPReview readers and contributors?

Would have been a good idea to add one more " what to buy advice" that many members constantly seek from others.

Fujifilm SLRs and X100 still have to share a forum although there is negligible overlap between the 2 interest groups. Please separate them at long last.

Nice job.