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It's A Sad Day
The photography industry sure is changing. This morning, most likely, you found a message announcing the closing of the #1 photography website, DPReivew.  This is a surprise and very sad.  DPreview is owned by Amazon and they have laid off 19,000 people recently and closed parts of their business. Unfortunately, DPReview is one of them.
I go way back with DPreview to the days when Phil Askey owned the site. It was big news when Amazon bought it for an outrageous amount of money.   The site grew and had some great writers, and of course, Chris and Jordan, who did their videos.  These guys are my friends, and I feel sorry they are going to be out of jobs. We ...

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