Popular Photography Past Issues - Happy Reading

[p.giannakis]

Recently i descovered that Popular Photography issues are online. Visit https://archive.org/details/pub_popular-photography - you register for free and have access to hundrents of past issues. You can even search by year (left side of the page).
I love going throught the lab reports from the 60's and 70's - plenty of great cameras on the bench (OM1 - M4 - M5 - Nikon F etc...)

Enjoy.

 

[Out to Lunch]

I have bookmarked the link. There are some cameras I'd love to look up. Cheers, OtL

 

[neal3k]

Looks promising and potentially a great resource. I bookmarked it too. Thanks for the link.

 

[raydm6]

Thanks Pan! Lots of good stuff at archive.org - photographic or otherwise.

 

[Andy Kibber]

Browsing a 1968 issue I see an ad for the Leica M4, describing it as "the aristocrat of 35mm cameras" 😎

 

[raid]

Thank you for the link. It will keep me busy.

 

[Pál_K]

Thanks! That should fill my reading list for the next 30 years…

 

[lxmike]

What a great idea, a trip down memory lane, especially the old adverts

 

[Noserider]

ah the gadgets

Name your favorite.

 

[CMur12]

I bookmarked it, too.

Thanks, Pan!

- Murray

 

[ChrisPlatt]

I was a Modern Photography reader, but I'll have a look.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[KoNickon]

As will I, I'm sure. Funny to see how much cheesecake was on the covers.

 

[Bbsteinle]

I was a Modern Photography reader, but I'll have a look.

Thanks,
Chris

Chris, do you know of anything similar for Modern?

Thanks,
Basil

 

[ChrisPlatt]

Chris, do you know of anything similar for Modern?

Unfortunately no I do not.

Chris

 

[NY_Dan]

I shot two Modern Photography covers in 1982: https://www.ebay.com/itm/153906632310?hash=item23d58cd676:g:fSYAAOSwa8NeoSla
and this one https://www.ebay.com/itm/302947041769?hash=item46890d01e9:g:L9oAAOSwYi5b4J90

 

[p.giannakis]

Unfortunately, it looks like there is an ongoing legal battle and access to those issues is now limited. You can only browse the issues from the 1930s to 1961.
Hopefully this will resolve - it is a treasure of knowledge and one of my favourite past times going throught them.

 

[Bolo Kukus]

Unfortunately, it looks like there is an ongoing legal battle and access to those issues is now limited. You can only browse the issues from the 1930s to 1961.
Hopefully this will resolve - it is a treasure of knowledge and one of my favourite past times going throught them.

Most unfortunate.

I recall a similar situation some years ago with the Leica Magazine, published in Europe. A well-meaning member (whether on this site or one of the othes0 scanned and downloaded many old issues of that excellent publication, but was forced by the Weztlar legal eagles to remove it. I had a great time reading thru the issues from the 1960s and 1970s until suddenly one day, they all vanished. Sadly.

We all hope this latest legal biz will be resolved in our favor and we can go on reading. Agree this is a true treasure of photo information from the past.

 

[JSteed#2]

Thank you!

 

[p.giannakis]

Hohoho... Merry Christmas.
Google put them up - at the moment they are all teh issues between 1980 and 2000 but soon more will follow.

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