Sony Cybershot DPR Shutdown Discussion Thread

Wishful thinking...

Rambow said:

Bill Borne said:

Thanks Randy

I sure hope someone comes up with a replacement!!!!

I joined in 2002 and have posted over 50,000 posts

What ever happens I will miss the forum and everybody in it! :-(

This is the second bummer for me. 1st was when my wife died in 2007 from a brain tumor after 36 years of marriage! :-(

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Bill, you're one of the good ones. Remember that when everything starts going belly up.

Last but not least,

Never give up! Never surrender.

Edy M aka Rambow

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Thank You very much for that, Edy

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Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
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Using Rx10 IV at Present

I've learned so much on this site and have made many friends I've never met! Been on here almost 20 years.

Thanks everyone for sharing your lives and photos. I have enjoyed everyone's company and insights.

A Hui Ka Kou!

Until we meet again.

Aloha,
Val

Val Bueno said:

Thanks everyone for sharing your lives and photos. I have enjoyed everyone's company and insights.

A Hui Ka Kou!

Until we meet again.

Aloha,
Val

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Same to you Val!

To all in the Sony Cyber-shot Talk community - it has been our very great pleasure to have shared your company. Thank you for making us feel welcome, valued and among friends.

We hope you continue to have fun making wonderful memories - wherever you venture.

Goodbye - we will miss you - stay safe and fare well…

Phil and Karen



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Harvey Rawn said:

To repeat my post entitled Networking:

It might be useful for us to share our email addresses to facilitate staying in touch and hopefully announcing a new forum site.

Mine is [email protected].

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This is a great idea, Randy. I’ve made some good friends here over the last six years that I’ve been a member.

Bill Borne said:

RLBur said:

I listed two threads where DPR Shutdown can be discussed.

However, I am opening this thread for the Cybershot Community to discuss the shutdown, talk about options and sadly...say some goodbyes. When this thread fills, I will open another one. However, any other thread opened about the shutdown I will lock or delete.

I am going to miss you all. I've said it before but I will say it again...this forum has some of the best photographers. I have been blessed to have seen your photos and shared in some of your life stories these past years.

Randy

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Thanks Randy

I sure hope someone comes up with a replacement!!!!

I joined in 2002 and have posted over 50,000 posts

What ever happens I will miss the forum and everybody in it! :-(

This is the second bummer for me. 1st was when my wife died in 2007 from a brain tumor after 36 years of marriage! :-(

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It saddens me to see this site close. I’ve had fun here over the last six years, and I’ve met some awesome people. You guys have always been there during the happy times, and the bad times. I have your email, Bill. I hope to get email or Facebook for some others too.

Thank you, moderators and contributors, for helping me transition into my Sony experience in 2016, as Lightpath48. Ironically, I was just returning this week after purchasing another RX10, when the announcement hit. Good-bye to all, and thanks to our moderators, for your leadership and good will!

Howard

A sad do for all of us!

Feel guilty for not visiting more

Lots of friends made here and a few enemies, but I will miss them both!.

I will really miss Bill Borne and his posts He has been a big credit to the community

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Greg
Jax, FL

PMUK said:

To all in the Sony Cyber-shot Talk community - it has been our very great pleasure to have shared your company. Thank you for making us feel welcome, valued and among friends.

We hope you continue to have fun making wonderful memories - wherever you venture.

Goodbye - we will miss you - stay safe and fare well…

Phil and Karen

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It has always been a joy to see your photographs Phil and Karen and how lovely to see Karen at last.
Regards,
David
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened - Anatole France.

DotCom Editor said:

Wishful thinking...

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RX10mk5 will arrive 18th of April...because I plan to purchase the mk4 the 17th..

I am working my way thru the stages of grief.

William Borne:

It is unfair that I address all my friends through you. Please forgive myTrespass.

You represent all that is good in DPR. Thank you for lending your ear to all of us. Thank for finding kind words for all of the pics that we posted. Thank you for your constructive criticism. Thank for your amazing polished rocks. Thank you for making the excuse that you were simply in vicinity and decided to drop in. Thank you for taking so kindly to my grandchildren who ABSOLUTELY love you. Thank you for breaking bread that myBabe placed before you.

Thank you for reignitng my faith in people who came across the big waters and settled where I could learn your language.

V. David López

abiquiuense











Mr. Randy L. Bur

Thanking you and Officer Mina J for your leadership. This is the only site where I posted my pics.

Ku, un da whoa ha

Tzen GUI t,amo.

Tewa for thank you and good bye

abiquiuense from the Pueblo of Abiquiu, NM

First, I want to thank Randy for volunteering so much of his time over the years to moderate the forum in such a gentle manner, while still maintaining the necessary decorum and focus.

Then, I want to thank the other members here – I won’t try to list them all – who have become friends and mentors to me here.

I am much saddened by this news. I’ve been a member for 19 years and have learned a lot and made quite a few acquittances here. I will miss regular contact with many of the people I’ve gotten to know here. I will miss the Mini-Challenges and the DPReview Challenges.

The problem with DPReview in general to my mind is that there is too much focus on the minutia of equipment, too much pixel peeping, too many fanboys and not enough focus on art, images and the people behind them. Through the weekly Show, Tell and Critique Thread, I’ve been able enjoy the art of photography and, most importantly, to get to know some of the folks here, which has added joy to my life. So, I want to thank Randy for allowing me to start and then continue the ST&C thread here.

One thing I’ve learned in my long life is that change is the only thing that is certain and nothing lasts forever. I certainly didn’t see this coming, but maybe in hindsight I should have. Amazon is a giant corporation that is, of course, driven strictly to produce profit for its shareholders. That’s the good and bad of capitalism. The world of photography has undergone many deep changes in recent years – the move of nearly everyone who isn’t really serious about photography toward cell phone cameras that allow even the most incompetent to produce technically decent images just by touching a button; the end of stay-at-home Covid; the terrible inflation resulting from dumping trillions of unfunded government dollars into the economy, negatively affecting the disposable income of the very people who are the potential buyers of sophisticated photographic equipment; the concomitant hammering of the stock market which exacerbates the negative financial effect; etc.

After 50 years as a Merger and Acquisitions lawyer, I’m willing to bet that Amazon did everything in its power to sell DPReview before making the decision to kill it. I’m guessing that, for the reasons cited above, it simply isn’t a marketable property, so I wouldn’t be looking for it to reappear somehow.

I’ll be looking for another good photography site, hopefully with more emphasis on art and the people behind the art. Any suggestions?

Maybe I’ll bump into some of you down the road. Until then: Sei gut! Sehn dich schpeeder! (PA Dutch for: Be good! See you later!).







Greg

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PMUK said:

To all in the Sony Cyber-shot Talk community - it has been our very great pleasure to have shared your company. Thank you for making us feel welcome, valued and among friends.

We hope you continue to have fun making wonderful memories - wherever you venture.

Goodbye - we will miss you - stay safe and fare well…

Phil and Karen

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'Ends' are most often transitions, change.
Sometimes not so good, sometimes an opportunity; but mostly always a bit of a challenge.
so what was here, can be somewhere else, but likely a bit different.
an opportunity to expand, not contract... to open new windows...
new trails to explore, new vistas to enjoy
I'm already heading down new paths. Hope to cross tracks with many of you, out there !


My Pal Jack and I wishing you all Happy Trails and hope to 'See' you all again!

Thx
Yuri

EDIT: I'll prolly spend some time over in the SONY forum in Cameraderie.org until a Cybershot pub shows up... LOL!

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" For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” - Henry Beston

abiquiuense said:

I am working my way thru the stages of grief.

William Borne:

It is unfair that I address all my friends through you. Please forgive myTrespass.

You represent all that is good in DPR. Thank you for lending your ear to all of us. Thank for finding kind words for all of the pics that we posted. Thank you for your constructive criticism. Thank for your amazing polished rocks. Thank you for making the excuse that you were simply in vicinity and decided to drop in. Thank you for taking so kindly to my grandchildren who ABSOLUTELY love you. Thank you for breaking bread that myBabe placed before you.

Thank you for reignitng my faith in people who came across the big waters and settled where I could learn your language.

V. David López

abiquiuense

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Wow, Thank you David from the Bottom of My Heart! Till I see you this summer!

Can't wait to see the kids again!

abiquiuense said:

Mr. Randy L. Bur

Thanking you and Officer Mina J for your leadership. This is the only site where I posted my pics.

Ku, un da whoa ha

Tzen GUI t,amo.

Tewa for thank you and good bye

abiquiuense from the Pueblo of Abiquiu, NM

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Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present

This posted on DigitalTrends.com

Within hours of DPReview announcing its closure on Tuesday, another site dedicated to photography, PetaPixel, revealed it was offering a home to Jordan Drake and Chris Niccolls, whose YouTube channel, DPReview TV, shares camera and lens reviews, along with photography tips and other related content.

Worth a read:

Give it back to Phil Askey, thats what I say.

Thank you! You have all been so generous to share your tips and settings and photos and that has been a great help to me. I appreciate everyone here and hope a new location is found to continue sharing all this vast ocean of knowledge.