Which is your favourite/lest favourite photomag?

[george_b1]

We have subscribed to Shutterbug - - - just to know where to get the best deals on film mailers and film. Now that we know - - - and

those dealers have web pages, we'll let the subscription lapse. As for the remainder of the mags - - who cares?

[david_killick]

Thanks, some interesting mags here I hadn't even heard of which I'll

be keen to have a look at. Thanks to the Internet, they shouldn't be

too difficult to track down. I agree some of the early PopPhotos were

good. I have a book, The Best of Popular Photography 1937-80, edited

by Harvey V Fondiller which is good reading and includes "Leica's

first 50 years" by Bob Schwalberg.

 

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Not a magazine, but a gallery which contains some excellent pictures

by masters old and contemporary is at >www.staleywise.com

/classic_collection.html< which you may like to check out.

[alan_simpson]

My favourite is 'Outdoor Photography' (a British magazine, not to be

confused with the US title 'Outdoor Photographer'). And I would

second people's views on 'Amateur Photographer'; it's a very good

magazine these days with a fine balance of old and new.

 

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Least favourite? That's hard to say as I tend to buy the magazines

that I like! I do subscribe to 'Aperture' however, and sometimes a

particular issue will make me wonder why.

 

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Alan Simpson

[Nowhereman]

I stopped susbscribing to Leica Fotografie a few years ago becaude they

spoke baby-talk.

[Allen Herbert]

British Amateur Photographer.Black&White Photography.The former

justs keeps getting better,the latter for its balanced views(heavy on

ads thought)Dislike, Practical Photography could there be a more

commercial magazine ugg.

[john_molloy3]

blindspot. hands down.

[Alex_Es]

Hi All,

 

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I buy Nippon Camera and Asahi Camera every month. Excellent

photography and reviews (which my wife translates for me). Last

time I saw American Photography I thought it was top level.

Chasseur d' Images is also very good for photography and reviews.

Leica Photographie is also fun, though I see it rarely. I like Pop

Photo for sentimental reasons. The reviews are good, and I enjoy

Herb Kepler and Jason Schneider. I miss the old Modern Photography

and the old Pop Photo. I was invited up to Pop Photo once and had a

great time. Really warm and intelligent people. I am not a fan of

the artsty / "experimental" photo journals--the sort that feature

gloppy images and such. The experiment is over, whether writing

poetry entirely in lower case or printing ill-focused nudes with

watermelons for heads. I am turned off to journals that are almost

all ads.

 

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Agree Zoom is very good.

[raymond_tai]

I learned alot about the technical aspects of photography from POP

photo and still feel it has a lot of value for beginners, though it

is not interesting reading material for the slightly advanced.

Anyway what do you expect for a subscription rate of peanuts per

month? A beginner can learn about what is out there just by looking

at the ads. Of course the internet has made all of the good points

above moot. I personally find any rag that stresses equipment

reviews to be next to useless. I prefer various photo magazines from

mainland China that features large format landscape and portraiture.

The printing is top notch in those magazines. In English I like

Doubletake because it is more literary than technical.