Expensive readers,

We’ve heard from lots of you over the previous a number of weeks, and we understand there are various 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 house for the following section of DPReview’s journey, and I’m excited to see what we are able to accomplish collectively.

I need to reassure you that we stay firmly dedicated to what makes DPReview nice: the most effective digicam evaluations within the enterprise, industry-leading images information and options, and one of the lively images communities anyplace 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 transformation as we get extra acquainted with our companions at Gear Patrol.

Thanks to your continued help of our group and legacy. We recognize it and might’t thanks all sufficient.

– Scott Everett
Common 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 additionally proceed as core members of the group.

In anticipation of your questions:

When will Gear Patrol grow to be the proprietor of DPReview?

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

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

Now we have labored onerous to attenuate any impression to our customers, and your account has been transferred to Gear Patrol as a way 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 immediately. We encourage you to evaluation 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. If you happen to want to delete your account, you need to observe the steps on the DPReview web site right here.

Will all DPReview workers 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 stay up for collaboratively investing within the web site’s future shifting ahead.

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

The location 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 anticipate to proceed evolving DPReview primarily based on buyer suggestions and the quickly altering state of the publishing {industry}.

Will Gear Patrol’s differing editorial focus impression DPReview?

Gear Patrol is at its coronary heart a model centered on serving to folks discover the most effective merchandise for his or her wants, so they’re a robust supporter of DPReview’s core mission of enabling anybody to faucet into their creativity by breaking down the complexities of drugs, expertise, processes, and methods used for creating pictures, movies, and combined media. Trying forward, our imaginative and prescient is to offer an unparalleled mixture of inspiration, perception, training, and group that unlocks and amplifies our prospects’ potential to create.