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Was never aware Amazon was holding the keys to your existence. Amazon I also use for buying a lot of commodity parts, something their webbusiness is better in than providing specialised equipment and reviews on them. Maybe individual DPReview contributors can secure themselves a place at YouTube for evaluation of camera equipment afterwards? Hopefully Amazon will not make life more difficult by restricting the rights to the DPR Review brand to their own existence only?
I visit YouTube on specialised subjects a lot and although the video medium is more restricted for supporting tests of camera's, I hope to see some of you back there...
PS As I type this I get a message of Amazon on some of my intended buys; now I feel different from before knowing how they treat their subsidiaries :-(

Sorry to see you go, but the message did not surprise me. In the past I used all kind of photographic equipment for pictures and video, with my Canon G7X being last. However once I changed my smartphone to a Samsung S21, the smaller difference in optical quality between this unit and my camera's made me change to what my wife alreday did earlier: just use the always available smartphone for media capture. Now that Sony predicted Smartphones will make most if not all normal camera's redundant in a few years cameras will become a nichemarket only. Your site did its best over all of your 25 years of existence and I once contributed to your forums on a regular basis. The last 3 years I no longer consulted DPReview though. All the best to your editors and contributors and many thanks for the ride.. :-D on

Never in a lifetime, Flickr was once an extra to multiple local backups in the years when hosting or cloud services were still in their infancy. And it was early with facilities for compiling albums. Nowadays, with Google foto's keeping any picture from your smartphone or Tablet for free and Microsoft jumping the bandwagon with Windows 10, the world is changed. Album facilities are included. If Flickr folds I will regret this because of its past, at present I've no longer any urgent use for it, so no subscription from my side. BTW even with picture processing I do not want any Cloudbased solution on subscription basis, so exit Adobe for new functions after LR6 went to Creative cloud...

As storage goes, Google drive lets you store pictures for free if they are in high resolution. Somehow the strategic paths between Yahoo and present ownership on this storage issue crossed! Since I never did an upload to Flickr on a picture I did not store locally (once on the PC, with a tripled backup scheme) I'll just let Flickr delete half of my earlier pictures. They may even delete all but 1000 left is more than enough for me

Lenovo just indicated 3 Gb RAM will be the standard offering in the Benelux. Maybe other markets will follow. I'm interested in the price difference 32 versus 64G storage, because the Android 6 and higher function to let the SD card work seemlessly as system memory is blocked my most manufacturers. On purpose of course, everybody is following Apple's pricing strategy on system memory, Android features or not.

Topcon camera's carried the (restrictive) Exakta lens mount...

The very first was a "boy box" camera for roll film aimed at kids (1952 I believe)
The first real camera was a SLR, the Exa IIb, which I soon traded in with extra payment for the traditional Exakta IIb with its removable prism (around 1965), to which I joined a Konica C35 for on my business travels abroad, starting in 1974. Shorty after came my first SLR with inbuil exposure control the Canon EF in 1975. Looking back in time, the Exakta period was the most active one, since all B&W picture processing was included by me, lots of darkroom usage included. As soon I started photographing with the versatile Canon I changed to transparencies, of which I still have over 3000 mounted in their frames and stored in the dark. With a fine Kodak Caroussel projector transparencies really came to life. After changing to color negatives + prints elsewhere some of this magic is gone. In my digital present Lightroom only partially restores it and its digital slideshow on my LCD TV is just OK to watch

It is quite typical of a mature market, some would even say one in decline. Product differentiation, looking for market segments that still hold profits and compensating loss in turnover by cost-cutting measures. But let's not forget the P&S market is almost gone and even the upmarket camera's face ever stronger competition from everbetter smartphones, Sony included. Consumers use the camera they have with them!
I used to work in the Telecom industry which commoditized fast and lost high margins quickly, IT/PC industry experiences the same (Sony abandoned its Vaio laptop & may even drop their TV-line of business)
I do hope that the large, most innovative camerabuilders (Canon, Fuji, Nikon and Sony) will survive thanks to their innovation and workmanship, but I wouild never gamble on anyone's survival in the long run. 4K is a natural evolution, but not a gamechanger, nor will even higher sensor resolutions Drones come with 4K as a given nowadays..

I once had a look at the Powershot Pro 1 ages ago. It did not focus well and was never really improved upon (just a FW update nothing really helping).
Then the EOS-M raised my interest, again a focus failing product, only improved upon in Asia. IMO explicitlly far away from DSLR enthousiasts elsewhere
Now this M3 is another halfway product to suggest real competition to their own line of DSLR, but probably restricted in performance for commercial reasons.
Panasonic did the same in partially "castrating" the GH4 electronics inside the LX100 to eliminate internal competition. In the mean time I just bought the Canon Powershot G7X, so this other Canon product is too late for me anyway.

Welcome to the club. My MOTO G LTE is by far inferior to your excellent NOKIA, but I still use it much more often than I expected. My present ISXUS 300HS is just as small, but lets me down in low light situations on filming when zooming in, so I will buy another more capable one. Either just as small (Sony RX100III or CANON G7X), or by contrast to my phone slightly larger like the LX100, knowing that I will NOT carry it along very often. Lots of other people may wait for smartphone camera's to come better and better instead. Even people with SLR's I see using smartphones more and more nowadays

RAW is superior to JPEG, but that is not what I'm debating. It is that smartphones are like wristwatches, you always carry them with you. And smartphone software whether Apple or Android come with lots of camera apps, photo improvement included. Since the phone is often or even constantly connected to the internet all kind of cloud storage and processing functions are at your fingertips. So next to carrying another device, the software is also much cheaper and easier to use. Camera 360 is one of the most capable camera app (but also featurerich, so more complicated to use than Instagram or Picasa). What smartphones still miss still zoomlenses, but NOKIA used to compensate this by digital zooming on high Mpx sensors. Microsoft is killing this development now they absorbed them to promote Windows phone sale

Yes you are completely right on the JPEG issue, but most camera's only provide HDR-functions on the JPEG setting, while smartphones offer HDR as included standard in the camera app. Another one: I always improve my normal HQ pictures in Adobe Lightroom, a capable but expensive software package. Pictures taken via smartphones can be improved automatically by Google, adapted by myself in Instagram or Camera 360 app etc.. all for free or almost nothing. I still will buy my next advanced small camera, but maybe it is the last one for me. Carryng around 3 kilograms of SLR + lenses like I did years ago is gone forever for me as modern consumer..

To add to earlier post: my shirt pocket used to be home to my IXUS 300HS, a small camera looking like a smartphone. Now I often carry my smartphone there. So even physically, smartphones are driving some camera's out. Of course smartphones tend to grow from 4"to 5" and larger screen models, which only just fit in trouser pockets, so maybe this trend will not continue?

I find more and more that while taking your smartphone with you is a given, taking a camera along with you is far from being an automatic action. So as a longtime amateur photographer I find me taking lots of shots with my MOTO G, even when realising that this model is a fine model as processing and HD-screen go, but not for taking pictures in low light. But it's always in the pocket and this is what counts. I wonder how fast and to what extend smartphones will drive consumertype digital camera's out. Advanced smaller ones my be the last ones to go? SLR is a different story, but I see them lying unused in family circles with the -in this case expensive- smartphone in action for pictures and video's

I'm surprised that Panasonic not only missed its 16th of july deadline for the LX8 presentation, but also the "end of august" one. Now with Photokina approaching still no news on this competitor to Sony's R100 MKIII. Not watertight as promised, or is the 4k video-function not working as intended? Even design specs are missing now.
I wonder what the outcome will be, Fuji's X30 was presented in time

Nice colours, I would've expected higher saturation from Sony, especially in red. PS The blue in the white eyes suggests a mid-day picture time

Nice colours, I would've expected higher saturation from Sony, especially in red. PS The blue in the white eyes suggests a mid-day picture time

Reminds me of Fuji-type colours and neutral 35mm films from way back...

Reminds me of Fuji-type colours and neutral 35mm films from way back...

Strange that almost all pictures are low-light situations. Now CA can not be evaluated, while NR comes up much stronger, in line wth higher ISO-values. Maybe this is a consequence of shooting in october?! Let's await more pics.