June 21 st Issue Amateur Photography

[John Robertson]

Just finished looking through this. If you are interested in screw thread Leicas, you should enjoy this issue. Just about the whole magazine is devoted to stuff about them. plus of course Rogers usual pithy comments on the last page!! 😎

 

[bmattock]

I hate that I just got my June 10 issue in the mail! Ah, the joys of overseas mail....grrr.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[Flinor]

Bill,

Do you find that they show up erratically? Sometimes I'll get two issues on the same day and sometimes they show up out of order.

 

[bmattock]

Bill,

Do you find that they show up erratically? Sometimes I'll get two issues on the same day and sometimes they show up out of order.

Yes, that happens to me too. Sometimes, I think I don't get them at all for awhile, then they all show up. Other times, I think several go missing for keeps. Since they publish every week, it is hard to keep track of which ones are missing.

Also, I find that the cover is a bother - it tears off all the time, which is a shame, because this is one of the few magazines I keep around. I love Ivor's columns, and I always feel the reviews have some real oomph to them.

It's bad enough that we pay 10 times the cover price to subscribe in the US and then we don't get the freebies that the UK subscribers get (free film, disks, etc), but then they arrive late and the covers tear right off. GRRR!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[John Robertson]

Sorry Bill!!! I think you guys the other side of the pond should send a petition for better service!! I used to have the same problems here with Modern,later Popular Photography.
Sadly I've discontinued that mag, as since the departure of Jason Schneider as editor, it has gone downhill rapidly!

 

[bmattock]

Sorry Bill!!! I think you guys the other side of the pond should send a petition for better service!! I used to have the same problems here with Modern,later Popular Photography.
Sadly I've discontinued that mag, as since the departure of Jason Schneider as editor, it has gone downhill rapidly!

I agree that UK photography magazines in general are superior to US photography magazines. Seems a shame.

There are still a few good ones in the USA. Shots, Shutterbug (well, kinda, and the ads are good), and Lenswork. If the rest of the US magazines vanished tomorrow I would not cry.

AP is my overall favorite, though.

Now, like comparing retired boxing champions with the current crop - I'd pit the Modern Photography or The Camera against all comers - if we're talking about the era from 1940 to 1960 or so. I wish I knew what happened - those were great magazines. Even from before my time - but I buy 'em by the stack on eBoy for next to nothing and they're great fun to read.

Same arguments, by the way. You should read the letters to the editor about how 35mm (miniature, as they called it then) was going to destroy photography - they're not 'real' cameras, etc. Just change the words '35mm' with 'digital' and you've got the exact same argument. I read the old columns where blowhards pontificate about how 828 film will never die. Or 127. Or 126 cartridge.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[John Robertson]

I read the old columns where blowhards pontificate about how 828 film will never die. Or 127. Or 126 cartridge.


127 is not quite dead yet in Europe. We can still get colour slide, 100isoB/W and print film yet!! however the choice is very limited.

 

[Flinor]

Bill,

I have found that when an issue is missed they are very good about sending out a duplicate, but you're right about the freebies and the covers. The reviews make up for that, unlike Pop Photo they have occasinally met a camera that they didn't like.

The thing that has always puzzled me about Modern is that when it folded a good proportion of their staff, including Schneider and Keppler, went over to Popular but it was never quite the same. In my opinion Pop Photo has become 75 pages of ads disguised as editorial content, followed by 75 pages of ads.