DPR Forum
Welcome to the Friendly Aisles!
DPRF is a spin-off of dpreview. We are a photography forum with people from all over the world freely sharing their knowledge and love of photography. Everybody is welcome, from beginners to the experienced professional. From smartphone to Medium Format.
DPRF is a community for everybody, every brand and every sensor format. Digital and film.
Enjoy this modern, easy to use software. Look also at our Reviews & Gallery!
Photography and Techniques
Nature & Wildlife
Including flower, animal, and bird photography
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Landscape & Travel
Dedicated to Landscape photography and Astrophotography
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City, Street & Architecture
Including Cityscape, Urban Landscapes, photojournalism, and transportation
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People, Portrait & Wedding
Including people & pet portraits, candid, studio & advertising and weddings
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Black & White
Including your Duotone, Tritone, Quadtone and Infrared work
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Macro & Still Life
Dedicated to macro and still life photography, tips and technique
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Sport & Action
Fast moving action and sport. Discuss techniques and share galleries and tips related to it.
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Everything else
Images and tips not covered by the other photography subforums.
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Editing / Hardware & Software
Discuss everything for software retouching, processing and correction techniques and tools, the hardware requirements (PC & Mac), printers, scanners, all RAW converters, image and video editing etc. pp
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Assignments & Critique
Images I took this week
Show your favorite images you made this week. No matter with which gear. Analog and digital.
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Photo Critique
Technical and aesthetic critique when you are working on an image
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Challenges
Monthly challenges/ contests. Photo and video. No matter which cameras or lens. Please follow the instructions at the top of each individual contest-thread.
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Challenge Discussions
the place to discuss dpreview Challenges/ now DPRF Challenges and entries.
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Gear-Talk
General Gear Talk
(Not only) beginners ask questions about gear, science and photography. Analog and digital. Nothing brand specific. Including accessories Talk. Everything from memory cards to tripods to camera bags.
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Sony & Minolta
All Sony & Minolta (D)SLR / NEX / E-mount cameras. Digital and analogue. Only fullframe and APS-C sensor size.
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Fujifilm X System & DSLRs
Fujifilm X system (APS-C mirrorless cameras) and Fuji DSLRs. No Medium Format! See for this the MF forum.
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L-Mount Alliance
L-Mount only. Cameras and lenses of the new L-Mount Alliance of Leica, Panasonic, Sigma and many others. Fullframe and APS-C.
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MicroFourThirds (MFT)
MFT mirrorless-system from Olympus, Panasonic etc., but also the older FourThirds standard and Olympus analogue cameras like the OM1 etc.
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Pentax & Ricoh
Pentax & Ricoh. APS-C and fullframe. Digital and analogue. Also The Ricoh GR series. No Medium Format. See the MF forum.
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Medium Format
All brands. Analogue & digital
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Leica M, Leica R, Leica Q
Leica M, R, Q. Leica Mini and Leica Minilux. Analogue and digital. No L-Mount! No Medium Format. See for this the other forums
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Other brands
Whatever does not fit into the other brand forums or if that system is not available anymore and uses a different lens mount. Analogue and digital. Example: Kodak, Contax, Samsung, Sigma SA etc.
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Smartphones, P&S and Drones
Smartphones and all cameras which have a smaller sensor than APS-C. All others belong to the brand-forum. Drones are also welcome here.
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Adapted Lens Talk
the place to discuss legacy glass, cross-system adapters and the experiences of using them. This forum is a place to discuss the use of non-native lenses from any system and on any system. Please focus on the experiences and photographs that come from using adapted lenses, not to discuss cameras or brands.
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Classifieds
Sell/ Buy/ Trade for free. Ebay auctions are allowed. See the sticky thread inside.
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General stuff
Announcements
Only the administrator can post here
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Forum-Help/ "Have you seen...?"
Did you find a bug? Do you have questions on how to use the forum software? Ask your questions here. We try to help you asap. Please only one question per thread. Do not hijack threads. Check old postings first.
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Introduce yourself
You can introduce yourself to other members so that they get to know you better
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DPRF Cafe
the place to chill. Talk about whatever you want to. Can be photo related, but no gear discussion, no political discussions, no questions/feedback regarding the forum software.
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Suggestions regarding this forum
What could be improved? Please only one idea per thread otherwise we risk that the idea will not be seen. You need to be logged in to be able to see/read here.
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