From a military observation perspective dpm is actually too dark. It's pattern actually makes you look like a dark blob at distance and this is inclusive of ranges at 1km plus.
"If something appears too dark then invariably it is" this was one of the first things that I was taught on observation. I was also then taught to look through cover and focus beyond the bush at the point behind, look into darkened areas. "Almost nothing in nature is black" which is not far off the truth. At range the old DPM pattern appears to merge because the pattern is too small and the blacks / dark greys and dark browns give the impression of being black as your eye is not capable of picking up the finer detail.
Multicam / MTP was introduced to counter this problem. Folds in the material will naturally cause a shadow and change the hue to the human eye, so even though it may seem quite light it blends just through the folds and creases in the material. When then placed into an area of shadow like a dried out leaf which appears to be light outside of the forest inside and on the ground it still appears dark, that's just due to the amount of light reflecting of the surface. Multicam / MTP will invariably blend better with more environments than DPM will. DPM was also designed at at time when the troops were actually taught to use camouflage, the use of cammouflage today is considerably less, in most cases just being a smear of cam cream to hands and face. It is very rare to now see troops with half a field hanging from webbing and elastics attached to themselves due to current environment that they are trained for.
If you are buying something that will be used in the militayr then Multicam is ideal. If not look for something in OD or Coyote brown.
