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.

  • roninIB@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • grabber4321@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • chocoroboto@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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