DPReview was founded in 1998 in England, and bought by Amazon in 2007, which in 2010 relocated the team to Seattle to be closer to its headquarters; I have met many of them over the years as they settled in and around my neighborhood. )This consistency and dedication drew and retained a large and dedicated community, one which produced comment threads thousands-strong on reviews and news items as they quibbled good-naturedly (and testily too, it must be said) with each other and the staff over sharpness and equivalency and the merits of one sensor arrangement or another. \n\n\nAmazon confirms another round of layoffs, impacting 9,000 people in AWS, Twitch and other units\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Coldewey is a Seattle-based writer and photographer