We made a mistake. We underestimated you.
A few weeks ago, we asked you to tell us what camera you wished you could always have had and why. We expected y’all to tell us about your favorite cameras that you owned or wished you could have owned – and enough of you did for us to populate our Part One with your choices – but like a true go-getter facing a carefully laid out plan with hours of research and planning across dozens and dozens of stakeholders against monumental odds, the rest of you Leeroy Jenkins’d* this thang!
Hundreds of you cosplayed as Dr. Frankenstein to conjure all manner of plausible and implausible cameras. In the following pages we take a look at some of the themes DPReview readers coalesced around. And folks, some of them are a little out there!
Who knew DPReview was full of such dreamers.
*For the record, Leeroy Jenkins was a skit.
Our DPREVIEW Tribute:
After nearly 25 years of operation, DPReview closed on 10 April 2023. This difficult decision was part of the annual operating plan review that parent company, Amazon, shared earlier this year.
Over the course of 25 years, DP Review built up a reputation as being one of the most informative places to go for information about that new camera or lens you’re after. DP Review began as an independent reviews site based in the UK in 1998, the brainchild of Philip and Joanna Askey, but it was eventually purchased by Amazon in 2007 and relocated over to Seattle in the USA in 2010.
Cheers DPReview – thanks for the great work and content that guided photographers, videographers and techno junkies the world over!