About the Site

Digital Photography Review™ is an independent resource dedicated to the provision of news, reviews and information about Digital Photography and Digital Imaging published at the Internet address www.dpreview.com™. Digital Photography Review is a fully owned website of dpreview.com Limited.

Digital Photography Review was established in December 1998, from simple beginnings grew a large and popular site, as time went on we gradually built the site up to include our vast digital camera database, timeline, forums, galleries a glossary and learn section. Of course, the core of the site are the all-day news updates and regular in-depth digital camera product reviews.

These days the site is one of, if not the, premium digital photography site with an audience of seven million unique visitors a month (around 20 million visitor sessions) reading over one hundred million pages. The site really has sky rocketed since those early days at the end of 1998. We believe in original content, unbiased content with as much detail as we can provide, we have been often copied but never bettered. We also also believe strongly that having our own material is the key to keeping the site interesting, unlike some 'para-sites' which simply reproduce other sites content.

One of the keys to the site is its long term stickiness, users bookmark and then return regularly, over 60% of our daily visitors come from their bookmarks / typed in URL. Many thanks to all my regular visitors and welcome onboard to the new visitors.

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Staff

Phil Askey: Founder, Editor, Author, Developer and Webmaster

I've been in the Internet business for about 11 years. My background is in web application development, security, design and development. Photography has always been a serious hobby and major pastime, which has now clearly turned into a profession. I started dpreview.com at the end of 1998 and in the last six years have handled and shot with more digital cameras than I'd like to remember.

Joanna Askey: Admin, Photographer & DB

Jo's background is in specific product marketing and seminar organization. Jo handles the majority of the paperwork required to keep the business side of dpreview alive.

Simon Joinson: Reviews Editor & Author

Simon Joinson has spent all his working life in or around the photographic world, as a photography student, photographer, graphic designer, retoucher, writer, art director and even, briefly, as a retailer. In early 1997 he launched the what was probably the world's first consumer digital camera magazine, What Digital Camera (UK) from his back bedroom. Since then he has launched and edited many magazines and written 7 or 8 books on photography and digital cameras.

Richard Butler: Technical writer (reviews)

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Lars Rehm: Technical writer (reviews)

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Andrew Westlake: Technical writer (reviews)

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Jaysen Marais: Web developer

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Support this site

You may appreciate that running this site is no mean feat, if you wish to help to support the site you can do so by (a) visiting the sponsors who may be of interest to you (clicking on banners), (b) if you work for a digital imaging related organization you may wish to: Phil Askey / Webmaster regarding advertising or (c) purchasing goods from our affiliate (see the bottom of this page).

Feedback

Here's what some people have to say about the site... (you can leave your own)

Garrett Bradley:
Thank you. I was assigned the task of "Pick a digital camera" for my company. Your site had the widest variety of models and most comprehensive camera reviews that I've found. Being able to compare several models' features side by side was a great help.

Allan Borenstein:
I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy and use your site. I find the information very good. I'm a professional photographer in Denver Colorado. I'm doing some digital imaging using photoshop, Live Picture software and I recently purchased an epson 1270 printer. I'm planning to buy a digital camera in the next 6-12 months. Please keep up the good work

Chris Harlow:
Just a note to say that I find this quite the best digital photography site that I have come across!

Jeroen Wollaars:
Just wanted to say I'm very impressed by your thourough reviews and love your site!! Keep up this excellent work!!

Alain Pirard:
By far the most informative digital cameras site I have seen on the net. All aspects and specifications are very well covered. Great site and I definitly will pass it on to friends and business associates. Thank you, your contribution has been extremely significant in helping me reach a decision on a camera suitable for my requirements.

Chris Beh:
Congratulations on creating the most informative and professional website for digital imaging. I'm a budding freelance writer interested in learning photography to support my writing. I've never really used traditional film cameras and I'm conseiering just starting off with digital imaging. It will obviously be the prevelent method in a few years. It looks like digital cameras will save me many dollars of film processing costs. You've made my search for information incredibly easy.

Gail Jahn:
I just wanted to thank Phil Askey for his patient tone and attention to detail when writing his reviews and "Learn" topics. Lots of reviewers have an attitude that seems to say "I'm gonna talk about this and if you can't keep up, tough break!" I've learned a tremendous amount from you, Phil. You helped.

Photographs

Images are provided for personal users comparison purposes only, no images found on this site may be re-used on any other online or print based magazine. All JPEGs have been reduced to BASIC quality (50% compression) for speed of download, to save space and to preserve copyright.