Alternatives to DPReview

brentbrent wrote:

There is another thread lamenting DPR's impending shutdown, but I'm starting this one to hopefully gather suggestions for where to go next for camera info.

There is a Micro Four Thirds forum here: https://www.mu-43.com/forums/ The few times I checked it out it didn't seem nearly as vibrant as this place, but perhaps a big influx of members from this place might change that.

Please post links to any other photographic forums, review sites, or other sites that you know of that might be sources of info about MFT, camera gear, or photography after this place shuts down

I don't like to be negative but the mu-43 site seem to suffer a bit of what the ancient but good MFLenses forum suffers from.  It is built seemingly to foster twitter-like sound  bytes rather than to allow reasoned debate.  Debate might be possible but a debate punctuated by significant slab-sided advertisements is a big change after dpreviews more considered advertising layout.

MFLenses of course is a tremendous resource but suffers from everyones bio being repeated over and over again and small talk that takes a lot of repetition and has often to be waded through to ferret out the serious stuff.

I suspect that mu-43 with even a fraction of the word flow that dpreview's busy M4/3 Forum handles is to loose the drift in a welter of confetti.

Just popping the bubble - I would like to wait a while and see what eventuates first before the ship has been jumped.  It is not that long to fuss about looking for some sort of rescue for the dpreview fora and its pretty classy format. the same thing more or less under a different helmet is what we might like.  But keeping up all the other services offered by their skilled staff is a bridge too far I suspect.