It wasn’t necessarily always easy going, but I used to walk into work every day with a smile on my face, genuinely unable to believe my luck at what I was being paid to do. I remember the years in our London office with great fondness, as we learned to produce reviews to Phil’s incredibly demanding standards. I continued to read about the latest and greatest cameras whenever new reviews were published, and when the site advertised for new staff, I decided I had nothing to lose by applying. Like many other photographers, I first became aware of it at the start of the digicam boom in the early 2000s, and bought my first digital camera, a Canon PowerShot G2, based mainly on Phil’s in-depth review. Unsurprisingly, I was an avid reader of the site long before I joined.
I’ll always be hugely grateful to DPR’s founder Phil Askey for trusting me to do this, as I was a scientist with no formal background in either photography or journalism. I was initially tasked with introducing lens reviews, before eventually taking on camera reviews and becoming the site’s Technical Editor. I joined DPReview in 2007, as one of the first new recruits after Amazon bought the site, alongside camera reviewers Richard Butler and Lars Rehm. It’s something I feel especially upset about, as I worked for DPReview for seven years, and still have good friends there now.
That’s almost 25 years of resource and hard work, gone at a stroke. Then some time afterwards, it will simply disappear from the internet. The world’s biggest camera review site, for decades the benchmark against which all others were measured, will stop publishing new content on 10th April. AP Technical Editor Andy Westlake reflects on his time at DPReview, following the news of Amazon’s plans to close itĪmazon’s recent announcement that it’s closing down the DPReview website has sent shockwaves through the photographic industry.
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