About the Site

Simon has spent pretty much all his working life in or around the photographic world, first as photography student, then as a photographer, graphic designer, retoucher, writer, editor, editor-in-chief, art director and even, briefly, a retailer. In early 1997 he launched what was probably the world's first consumer digital camera magazine, What Digital Camera (UK) from his spare bedroom. Since then he has launched and edited many magazines, written 7 or 8 books on photography, Photoshop and digital cameras and made numerous appearances in print (from industry titles to national newspapers) and on television and radio talking about digital photography and consumer technology in general. He joined dpreview.com in 2004 as reviews editor, and took over the day-to-day running of the site in 2010.

Barney Britton joined dpreview when it was based in London in November 2009, after several years as a print journalist in the UK specialist photographic press. He moved from London to Seattle, USA, a year later and these days, Barney spends his days marvelling at how much sunshine there actually is in Seattle when you work in an office with large windows. After hours Barney can be found walking the streets of the Emerald City with a camera, or inside one of Seattle's many music venues. As well as having a hilarious name (apparently), Barney sees nothing wrong with cute pictures of cats – whatever Andy might say.

Shawn started taking pictures early and hasn't stopped for over 40 years. Those who knew him in school aren't surprised that he's still working in photography, as there was seldom a day when he didn't have his camera in hand. Shawn has extensive experience writing about technology, covering mobile computing as managing editor of Pen Computing Magazine, and he started following the digital camera industry early, rising to editor of Digital Camera Magazine. Shawn joined Imaging-Resource.com in 2004, where as senior editor he worked with a team to write and edit hundreds of digital camera reviews before joining DPReview.com in 2012. Though his wife, two daughters and two sons now take first place, photography was his first love, and helping others find and explore this love is his passion.

Richard Butler was trained as a scientist but instead chose a career in communication. He has been a journalist and technical writer on a series of scientific and engineering magazines and has had articles published across a broad range of trade and technical publications. A long-term enthusiasm for design and graphics flourished with the purchase of his first digital camera. This interest in photography ran parallel with his work until he joined dpreview.com in 2007, allowing him to get paid to do what he most enjoys.

Jeff's interest in digital photography began in the mid-1990s while a student at UC San Diego, when he began tinkering with early Apple and Casio cameras. In late 1997 he founded the Digital Camera Resource Page (dcresource.com), which was the first website dedicated to the subject. After fifteen years, over four hundred camera reviews, and thousands of news items, Jeff suspended work on dcresource.com and moved to Seattle to join the DPReview team in 2013. In addition to photography, Jeff enjoys traveling the world, gadgetry and volunteering.

A keen photographer for many years, and owner of cameras of many different shapes, sizes, and formats, Andy prepared for his role as lens reviewer by staring at the screens of obscure scientific instruments for more years than he would care to mention. After eventually deciding that spending the rest of his life in a succession of basement laboratories may not be entirely healthy, he served a brief stint in industrial creative writing, and very nearly became a spy, before caving in and joining dpreview’s basement studios. Andy does not believe that testing lenses is a sufficiently hazardous business to require the use of a white lab coat.

Allison has her father to thank for introducing her to photography at a young age. She's written professionally about cameras and consumer technology since 2008, including several years as Editor of DigitalCameraReview.com. She comes to dpreview from North Carolina where she wrote about smartphones, ate more biscuits than she'd care to admit to and spent several months accumulating bruises while training to become a roller girl. She's excited to be writing about photography again full-time and eager to explore Seattle with a camera at her side. Her Instagram account is shamelessly flooded with photos of her cat.

Erin Lodi's career in photography and journalism started right in her small eastern Washington hometown of Moses Lake as a photojournalist at the Columbia Basin Herald. She became the managing editor of three different newspapers before leaving journalism to try her hand at public relations and marketing, technical writing, and as a freelance photographer and writer. She feels like she's found her first love again as the Mobile Imaging Editor at dpreview.com, where she can harness her passion for both photography and journalism as she explores the brave new world of connected mobile photography.

Lars hails from the land of Beethoven, Beckenbauer and the Bratwurst, where he earned his academic qualifications in business and supply chain. After working a number of years on research projects in Germany, Spain and the UK he eventually realized that optimizing the European Logistics industry was a futile task and joined dpreview as a writer in 2007. After the site's move to Seattle, WA in 2010 he substituted London's dark alleys and seedy back streets with the hiking trails of the Pacific Northwest but nevertheless, wherever he goes, there is still almost always a camera in his bag.

Kelcey is a local Seattleite, so 8 months of rain and wind a year hardly faze him at all. Kelcey's first introduction into photography was when he helped his father build a darkroom in the garage. Since then he's been hooked on the magic of capturing the world around him and sharing it with others. After graduating from the University of Washington and spending some time teaching English in Japan, he returned to his town of origin to work at Amazon.com. When he heard that dpreview.com was moving in just across the street, he jumped at the chance to join the team. Kelcey now spends his days meticulously photographing the same studio comparison shots that he used to spend hours meticulously analyzing on dpreview.com.

Jan joined dpreview in 2008 as a developer. He spends most of the time in the Seattle office working on new features for the site, to make it more relevant for this century. Sometimes he wishes he could start from scratch with a clean slate but then he realizes that millions of users every month can't be wrong, and remembers how fortunate he is to have landed a developers' dream job.

Adrian has been doing programming since 13, that pretty much describes this nondescript ninja developer. Daily routine in the office consists of magically spawning code monkeys to build new features for the delight of both staff and users, fixing code error and bugs created by those monkeys and finally spending long hours figuring out how to get better monkeys to finally reach technological singularity. The weekends are filled with activity totally unrelated to monkeys; doing actual photography.

Richard joined DP Review from the Great White North as a web developer. After spending several years honing his abilities in program management, he discovered that sitting in meetings all day did not bring the same satisfaction as diving head first into code. Between banging his head on the monitor cursing web browsers for their inconsistencies, you'll find him escaping to the nearby mountains (there aren't that many on the east coast where he is from) or driving around looking for the next great culinary experience.

After a childhood spent playing with cameras and computers among the corn fields of Nebraska, Josh moved to the Pacific Northwest where he continues to play with cameras and computers, minus the corn fields. Joining DPReview in 2011 after several years in the IT industry, he is thrilled to be able to combine his interests while working for a website which he has long respected. When he's not at the office, he can be found hiking near Seattle or photographing the natural and artificial details of our world.

Scott fell in love with photography in 2002 when his close friend Preslav took him shooting with an old Russian SLR, the Zenit. He has since accumulated over 20 cameras and 16 lenses, but the Hasselblad remains his personal favorite. He spent most of his 20s as a project manager, and before joining dpreview was a photographer and producer for a Seattle production company. Scott's main day-to-day work may all be behind the scenes these days, but his photography still appears regularly in our galleries and reviews.

Although no longer involved in the day-to-day running of the site, Phil's influence still looms large and he remains a friend to the site and to the team. As well as defining the rigorous, consistent camera testing methodology that drives our reviews (including designing many of the tests and writing the proprietary analysis software), Phil single-handedly wrote all the site's code until we expanded our team 2007, and, along with his wife, Joanna, produced pretty much all the content in the first 5 years too. As his readership and reputation grew, the influence of his innovative in-depth reviewing style could be seen throughout the photographic industry, and it's fair to say his testing methods changed forever the way camera reviews were conducted both online and in print. His contribution to the understanding of and popularizing of digital photography was recognized in 2008 when he was named the PDMA Person of the Year. After over a decade working 24/7 at the helm of DPReview Phil left to pursue other interests in 2010. As well as running a website covering zero emission motoring (zemotoring.com) Phil is also developing Android and IOS apps, about which you can find more details here.