Expensive readers,

We’ve heard from a lot of you over the previous a number of weeks, and we notice there are numerous questions on what comes subsequent for DPReview. We’re thrilled to share the information that Gear Patrol has acquired DPReview. Gear Patrol is a pure residence for the subsequent part of DPReview’s journey, and I’m excited to see what we will accomplish collectively.

I need to reassure you that we stay firmly dedicated to what makes DPReview nice: the very best digital camera evaluations within the enterprise, industry-leading pictures information and options, and one of the crucial lively pictures communities wherever on the web.

That is just the start of a brand new chapter for DPReview and we don’t have all of the solutions but, however I’m sharing what we all know beneath and can proceed to share details about this modification as we get extra acquainted with our companions at Gear Patrol.

Thanks in your continued assist of our group and legacy. We respect it and might’t thanks all sufficient.

– Scott Everett
Basic Supervisor – DPReview.com

The DPReview.com group, left to proper: Min Joon So, Brendan Nystedt, Dale Baskin, Josh Hays, Richard Butler, Vladimir Bobov, Scott Everett. Shaminder Dulai, Richard Legal guidelines, Matt Waller and Mykim Dang weren’t in a position to attend the picture shoot but in addition proceed as core members of the group.

In anticipation of your questions:

When will Gear Patrol turn into the proprietor of DPReview?

The transaction closed at present, and Gear Patrol is now the proprietor of the DPReview enterprise.

Will buyer accounts be robotically transferred to Gear Patrol? What if I don’t need to switch my account or content material?

We’ve labored onerous to attenuate any affect to our customers, and your account has been transferred to Gear Patrol to be able to proceed to entry the identical nice content material from DPReview. Gear Patrol’s web site Phrases of Service and Privateness Coverage will govern your use of the DPReview web site beginning at present. We encourage you to overview this data to grasp how the web site shall be run by Gear Patrol and the way your private data shall be collected, used, and guarded going ahead. In case you want to delete your account, you must observe the steps on the DPReview web site right here.

Will all DPReview employees be part of Gear Patrol?

Our present core editorial, tech, and enterprise group is shifting ahead with DPReview. Gear Patrol is dedicated to persevering with DPReview’s {industry} main journalism, and we sit up for collaboratively investing within the web site’s future shifting ahead.

Will DPReview change its editorial protection or web site options because of this?

The positioning will proceed to function because it was earlier than, with all editorial protection and web site options remaining the identical, and all historic content material accessible. That being stated, we’re excited to start a brand new chapter working inside and alongside an editorial firm like Gear Patrol and count on to proceed evolving DPReview based mostly on buyer suggestions and the quickly altering state of the publishing {industry}.

Will Gear Patrol’s differing editorial focus affect DPReview?

Gear Patrol is at its coronary heart a model centered on serving to folks discover the very best merchandise for his or her wants, so they’re a powerful supporter of DPReview’s core mission of enabling anybody to faucet into their creativity by breaking down the complexities of drugs, expertise, processes, and strategies used for creating pictures, movies, and blended media. Wanting forward, our imaginative and prescient is to offer an unparalleled mixture of inspiration, perception, schooling, and neighborhood that unlocks and amplifies our clients’ potential to create.