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Amazing.

Just yesterday in the Landscape forum, in a thread about whether that particular sub-forum was "in decline", I posted a comment that DPR as a whole was in decline.

I based this on the personal view that [a] camera sales have been in decline for some time so you'd expect a website based on cameras to also be in decline and forums are old technology and that social media is now the place.

But I didn't think DPR's closure would be announced in 24 hours!!!
 
We really need to do something for L-mount. Apart from DPReview there really isn't a proper forum for the system anywhere. Cameraderie just lump us in with a plethora of ancient Leica mounts (Xenon 5cm f1.5 disassembly anyone?), and what limited L-mount forums are out there are all completely dead with a handful of posts over the last 12 months.

Maybe we need group of us to do something?
 
sniper5 said:
If someone is looking more for a dpreview structure with many different brands in it, then Camera-info.com is the better choice.
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I posted a quick message in their L mount forum, to see what would happen. My user name there is CharlesH.
 
pdk42 said:
We really need to do something for L-mount. Apart from DPReview there really isn't a proper forum for the system anywhere. Cameraderie just lump us in with a plethora of ancient Leica mounts (Xenon 5cm f1.5 disassembly anyone?), and what limited L-mount forums are out there are all completely dead with a handful of posts over the last 12 months.

Maybe we need group of us to do something?
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It seems like it should be possible. As with the L-mount community, the Pentax community is a relatively small group. The DPReview forum for each of these groups generates a very small number of posts each day, about 10-12 posts per day. But the Pentax community has an independent site--"pentaxforums"--which is incredibly active. I just checked, and they have had 40 posts in just the last hour. A new post pops up about every 1-2 minutes on average. They also host a very extensive review site and provide relevant news. If the small community of Pentax users can support a very active forum site then it should be possible for the L-mount crowd to do the same.
 
Andreas33 said:
pdk42 said:
We really need to do something for L-mount. Apart from DPReview there really isn't a proper forum for the system anywhere. Cameraderie just lump us in with a plethora of ancient Leica mounts (Xenon 5cm f1.5 disassembly anyone?), and what limited L-mount forums are out there are all completely dead with a handful of posts over the last 12 months.

Maybe we need group of us to do something?
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It seems like it should be possible. As with the L-mount community, the Pentax community is a relatively small group. The DPReview forum for each of these groups generates a very small number of posts each day, about 10-12 posts per day. But the Pentax community has an independent site--"pentaxforums"--which is incredibly active. I just checked, and they have had 40 posts in just the last hour. A new post pops up about every 1-2 minutes on average. They also host a very extensive review site and provide relevant news. If the small community of Pentax users can support a very active forum site then it should be possible for the L-mount crowd to do the same.
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Maybe we can re-invigorate the L-mount forum.
 
Also don't forget reddit r/Lumix and r/LumixS5 and there's a bunch of active Facebook groups for L mount and S series specifically
 
Pentaxforums is one of the best communities of photographers out there actually. It is a very old and lasting community...

Well, for us there is this site https://l-mount-forum.com/community/

We can all move there. I registered there already. We COULD erect a new forum of course, but this one is already working and seems ok...
 
Actually, I've started a topic there - welcome to join!

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l-mount-forum.com
 
This is crazy and very sad

looking back, my first account (which I lost access too) I was on these forums from 2004 - 20yrs ago

They going to just chuck away 25yrs worth of camera info?

I think it’s too late for someone to come in and buy the whole thing, with key staff already moving hopefully the community might be saved and moved
 
Andreas33 said:
pdk42 said:
We really need to do something for L-mount. Apart from DPReview there really isn't a proper forum for the system anywhere. Cameraderie just lump us in with a plethora of ancient Leica mounts (Xenon 5cm f1.5 disassembly anyone?), and what limited L-mount forums are out there are all completely dead with a handful of posts over the last 12 months.

Maybe we need group of us to do something?
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It seems like it should be possible. As with the L-mount community, the Pentax community is a relatively small group. The DPReview forum for each of these groups generates a very small number of posts each day, about 10-12 posts per day. But the Pentax community has an independent site--"pentaxforums"--which is incredibly active. I just checked, and they have had 40 posts in just the last hour. A new post pops up about every 1-2 minutes on average. They also host a very extensive review site and provide relevant news. If the small community of Pentax users can support a very active forum site then it should be possible for the L-mount crowd to do the same.
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There’s a very small L-mount thread on Pentaxforums by the way!
 
Just another day in Amazon's life.
 
Dpreivew was where I started my education in 2002/2003 on digital cameras, and continued to learn so much more about photography. My photography education was also from many other capable websites.

however it was the testing of DPReview on the focussing speeds of those early digital cameras where I was introduced to Panasonic.

If one recalls in those days focussing could take up to a second, however the Panasonic cameras focussed at much more reasonable speed, it was also the start of their Lumix brand.

First was the LC20 and then the amazing FZ1 with its 12x optical zoom at f2.8 all through the zoom range.

It has been hats off all the way for Panasonics innovation in photography that many more established brands followed.
 
In case you missed this interview

At 22:15 Chris is asked what his favorite camera of all time is and for first answer is the s5ii
 
mjptango said:
Dpreivew was where I started my education in 2002/2003 on digital cameras, and continued to learn so much more about photography. My photography education was also from many other capable websites.

however it was the testing of DPReview on the focussing speeds of those early digital cameras where I was introduced to Panasonic.

If one recalls in those days focussing could take up to a second, however the Panasonic cameras focussed at much more reasonable speed, it was also the start of their Lumix brand.

First was the LC20 and then the amazing FZ1 with its 12x optical zoom at f2.8 all through the zoom range.

It has been hats off all the way for Panasonics innovation in photography that many more established brands followed.
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Similar relationship for me as well. I joined in 2006 and still remember being late to meet a friend after I realized the the long-anticipated review of the GF-1 had dropped.

I spent some years with Sony and Fujifilm, but that moment is what started my journey with Panasonic.
 
I don't understand. I'm relatively new to dpreview, but the amount of help I've found on these forums is valuable. I mean an economic value. Because on many occasions it saved you time and time is money, as we all know. And the information that exists in dpreview on photography in general is worth a lot of money.

It is true that much of this information was rubbish, but there is a lot of valuable information that, if transformed into KNOWLEDGE, is of incalculable value.

What I do not understand is that this information is not made available in the future to interested people. I don't know, it's like closing the biggest books library.

We all know that Jeff Bezos has plenty of money, but I insist, this information has an economic value.

Anyway, many thanks to the forum members who have helped us beginner photographers.
 
It's a huge valuable assert to just disappear. The notice of shutdown could be a business/pressure tactic in negotiations for a new buyer to take over the site. Lets see?
 
Qwerty 2001 said:
It's a huge valuable assert to just disappear. The notice of shutdown could be a business/pressure tactic in negotiations for a new buyer to take over the site. Lets see?
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I doubt it. They've declared that DPR has no value to them whatsoever - that's a pretty dismal negotiating tactic.
 
While we should collectively figure out a place to land and to rebuild, I also want to emphasize that it actually should be criminal to simply shut down a site such as this without provisions for even read-only access going into the future.

This is a huge catalogue of the development of digital image making. It is history. It is our history. It should minimally be maintained as an accessible archive!
 
I just saw an anti-robot protection on this site for the FIRST TIME EVER! DPReview never had an anti-robot proofing protection!

You understand what that means? They do not want ANYONE to save a copy of this site. Clearly a full copy can only made by robots, which are now banned here. So they deliberately want to destroy everything here.

I winder why? Why they are THAT eager to destroy our knowledge base? Why noy let anyone who wants it to keep it safe? Why such barbaric decisions?
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