A decade old camera review channel on YouTube, DigitalRev, has removed hundreds of old videos from their channel. Only about 9 remain.
While I’m not a big camera guy, and wasn’t aware of this channel beforehand, I heard about this on Linus Tech Tips’ WAN Show - apparently the page was a trusted resource for a lot of people.
The good news is, it does appear to be mostly(?) archived via archive.org. Not sure why it was pulled from YouTube, so there is a risk it could be pulled from Archive as well - if anyone wants to backup, now might be a good time.
One of their presenters was extremely funny and the reviews were not “standard”. Often they got called the “top gear of cameras”.
Their videos lost would be a catastrophe. I rewatch some of their challenges just for fun. Or the old Pro Photographer cheap Camera series. Thats legendary.
Damn. Why did I never bother to download them.
Kai Wong, the main presenter still has a youtube channel that i watch from time to time. but i loved watching some old digitalrev videos from time to time, they were so fun! i bought my first canon DSLR because of them:)
i wish i had downloaded the videos as well
Yup! Kai convinced me to buy a D3300 some ~10yr ago. Then I entered that rabbit hole …
Download them now from Archive! There appear to be archives from 2007 to 2019!
I got into photography because of them as well. But the channel was already dead then. It’s not the reviews that hooked me but the fun they had and the inspiring creativity of the pro photographers.
I mean they still do their own thing on their own channels right now and upload frequently.
I agree about the Top Gear comparison. They were definitely entertaining.
I agree about their own channels. But this is r/datahoarder and not r/datalossmoveon.
Also the old stuff with the three together was much more entertaining.