Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview

That's great. Despite the fact that I had little to no use for dpreview anymore (I haven't picked up my SLR in 5-10 years), it made me very sad that dpreview was going away. Their reviews were exceedingly through and in-depth and could be trusted. Happy news for all of the dpreview team!

This may sound harsh, but Gear Patrol looks to me like just another content farm with affiliate links, generating &quot;Top X of Y&quot; articles.<p>Sure it&#x27;s got a premium feel of the website, but the lack of product specs make its value to me as a consumer 0.

I wonder what happened behind the scenes at AMZN to make this possible.

This is a better outcome than losing DPReview entirely.

I’ve been reading geek blogs and tech sites for years, and I’ve never heard of Gear Patrol. Based on this, my hunch is that DPReview will go here to die and in the future, Amazon will be able to say “we had nothing to do with its death!”

It&#x27;s unfortunate for DPReview that this happened after they already lost their best talent (Chris and Jordan over at DPReview TV)

GP is far from journalism. There’s no way. It’s mostly, if not all, paid sponsorship with the rest affiliated links.

I&#x27;ve found gear patrol to be an enjoyable source of new product details (similar to Uncrate). Seems like a good acquirer to me! Better than losing such a great photography resource. I hope they&#x27;re able to save more review sites in the future. Better than a wirecutter-only future.

I used dpreview to buy my dslr back in early 2017 and it was so helpful in comparing the different options even as a newbie. Beyond thrilled to see amazon giving it up -- hopefully this means it can thrive.

Hopefully this means that they&#x27;ll be able to maintain their thorough review format.

I hope they can update their horrible forum software.<p>I have been a user there for like 10 or 15 years, I don&#x27;t recall, and the ui sucks.

What is the business model behind this and Gear Patrol? Just ads or do they have deals with gear producer?

I haven&#x27;t used Gear Patrol much in the past. Are their reviews of the same quality as DPReview&#x27;s?

First, nuke that forum out of sight.