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Klaus dk said:
Jonsi said:
Klaus dk said:
msu79gt82 said:
I was kinda hoping for 2000 posts also.

It's looking doubtful :-( Even with just 51 to go :-|
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I'm 222 posts from becoming a "Forum Pro" (10000 posts). It won't happen now :-(
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C'mon Klaus. That's only 55.5 posts a day for the next 4 days.

You can do this!
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Indeed, but to no avail.
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You've been a DPR member for a long time but apparently, you didn't post much in the early years. Looking at your posting history there appear to be gaps that lasted for years where you didn't post anything. I joined shortly before you did and have over 57,000 posts. That is only about 9 per day.

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Canon 20D and Fujifilm S3 pro
 
roby17269 said:
RAZORBACKSRULE 1 said:
I was looking for a review on the Olympus C-2500 UZI when I found DPR .
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Similar to you: I was looking for a review of a Canon something Pro IS compact zoom camera... then started browsing the site and was hooked pretty quickly
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Found it! it was a PowerShot Pro90 IS.

My dad bought it and lent it to me... and I needed to find some info on this.

I will miss the camera / lens database here a lot
 
A colleague at work who was very much into photography, shooting football (ie soccer) matches in his spare time and regularly contributing his shots to our local newspaper (in Italy).

I was trying to decide what ILC to get, and he suggested I check specs and reviews on DPR before I fork out money, saying this was likely the best and most reliable site with camera info.

That was in 2007. I did a lot of reading and comparing and thinking, but couldn't make up my mind. An entire year went by. Then, this review about the first-ever MFT camera popped up: https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicdmcg1

At the same time, that same colleague and another friend happened to be in New York in that period, and both came back with a G1, one black, the other red. I was fascinated, I thought they looked absolutely great and were so much more manageable than the DSLRs that I had handled in stores. That's when I decided I wanted the GH1 that was due to be available soon after. I still have that camera.

And since then I have continued to visit and peruse DPR, lurking at first, for a decade. I only registered in 2019.

Amazon is now pulling the carpet out from under our feet, and its plan to erase the entire site is, in my view, inhumanely wrong. For UNESCO, "[h]eritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations." UNESCO in fact also has a category of immaterial heritage that is about knowledge and traditions. Eliminating DPR in my eyes is not unlike blowing up the Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan, or destroying the Temple of Baalshamin in Palmyra.

I hope DPR staff will find new, rewarding jobs elsewhere. I will certainly look out for their names. And I hope I will also find y'all in some other forum. I have greatly valued your input, passion, wisdom, expertise and I thank you all for the readiness to share your knowledge. I have learned a lot from you. It was a pleasure to have 'known' you all.

DPR will be greatly missed. Amazon had better watch out, karma is a b*tch.
 
i have no idea how i got here
 
I think I was either searching for photo challenges or looking something photography-related up :-D
 
My photography was usually lousy and I blamed my camera; at the time I wasn’t interested in reading about it and was basically disgusted.

But I had a sudden realization that my photography was bad because of *me*. From that time I became a voracious reader of everything photographic. I joined DPR because Google found the answers on DPR to some questions I had and gave me the ability to ask even more questions. It has been an invaluable resource for me, and I’m grateful to everyone who helped me.
 
Once upon a time there was a world without informative websites.

What's that? Ya'll don't believe me?

Conspiracy theory ya say?

I was there I tell ya! I dun gone an seen it wi' me own two peepers I did.

And in that world the process of choosing gear was very different.

Initially there wasn't much choice, and it was mostly about budget.

How much you got? That'll get you this much camera. The very early days of any technology typically carried huge price premiums that takes time to normalise.

I recently found an old copy of Byte magazine, from the 70s, carrying a half-page advert about a breakthrough in affordable memory, a whopping 64KB for only $2000.

That's a cool $1 million to hold an average camera raw file from today's cameras.

It wouldn't be until the 90s that memory technology and prices had normalised enough to consider putting it in something so frivolous as a consumer camera.

So when digital cameras first started appearing the, the buying decision for the most part was pretty easy. Mostly, each new camera was better than the previous model, so if you had the money and the interest, that's what you bought.

But eventually came brands, models, and price-points, and their companion, hell - in the guise of choice and decisions.

Camera shops transitioned to Digital Camera shops, spawning an insidious new breed of salesmen whose job was to convince you to buy whatever they had available to sell that week, using a secret spell known as technobabble and FUD.

These guys would sell you a camera in April, then point at you and laugh if you were still using it in July.

There was the occasional mutation in the gene pool, spawning an outlier who would make a sincere attempt to help you choose a model that would suit your needs, but they didn't stay in business long, because that's not how the universe works.

Show me a household that doesn't have a drawer-full of early digital cameras and I'll show you millennials.

DPReview was the antidote to this madness. A place to find unbiased, accurate and technical yet well structured comparisons.

And then there were its forums, the antidote to the antidote to that madness.
 
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I was at Ian Lyon’s Computer Darkroom site interested in Printers and Photoshop, I also purchased Sony F505V from DPR’s excellent detailed review.

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Never buy version 1.0 of anything.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi
 
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tbcass said:
Klaus dk said:
Jonsi said:
Klaus dk said:
msu79gt82 said:
I was kinda hoping for 2000 posts also.

It's looking doubtful :-( Even with just 51 to go :-|
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I'm 222 posts from becoming a "Forum Pro" (10000 posts). It won't happen now :-(
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C'mon Klaus. That's only 55.5 posts a day for the next 4 days.

You can do this!
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Indeed, but to no avail.
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You've been a DPR member for a long time but apparently, you didn't post much in the early years. Looking at your posting history there appear to be gaps that lasted for years where you didn't post anything. I joined shortly before you did and have over 57,000 posts. That is only about 9 per day.
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AFAIK, the only time I was quiet was from 2007 to 2011. That was the period I used my little Canon IXUS for holiday- and social shooting, until I discovered how much easier studio portraiture was when you could actually check the results on the camera's LCD. This led to an avalanche of purchases (DSLRs, lenses, strobes, and modifiers) and a long learning process — both of which are still in progress ;-)

And it opened another front as well: how to get models and how to work with them, something I've used a lot of energy on.

Very few have as many posts as you. Not being a native English speaker, composing a post can take a long time.

Good luck and good light.
 
Klaus dk said:
AFAIK, the only time I was quiet was from 2007 to 2011. That was the period I used my little Canon IXUS for holiday- and social shooting, until I discovered how much easier studio portraiture was when you could actually check the results on the camera's LCD. This led to an avalanche of purchases (DSLRs, lenses, strobes, and modifiers) and a long learning process — both of which are still in progress ;-)

And it opened another front as well: how to get models and how to work with them, something I've used a lot of energy on.

Very few have as many posts as you. Not being a native English speaker, composing a post can take a long time.

Good luck and good light.
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Most of my posts are short and I have the advantage of being retired since 2008.
 
Klaus dk said:
msu79gt82 said:
PhotoMac503 said:
I got a coupon in the mail, along with a note promising a large check after my 2,000 post.

I'm almost there. I just need about 900 more posts in five days.
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I was kinda hoping for 2000 posts also.

It's looking doubtful :-( Even with just 51 to go :-|
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I'm 222 posts from becoming a "Forum Pro" (10000 posts). It won't happen now :-(
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Too bad. They double your salary when you become a Forum Pro.

I speak from experience as I've changed user names when changing email addresses and such. So my lifetime post count is much higher.

DPR - dollars per rant
 
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I don't actually remember anymore after almost two decades. But "interest in digital photography" is probably close enough.
 
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