ZI Review in Camera Art

[physiognomy]

Hi,

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but I was browsing at the local book store the other night and came across this review written by Dave Howard... I hadn't seen this magazine before and it looks to be pretty good.

Camera Art (feb/march)

Cheers!

Peter

 

[spysmart]

How distribution of magazines like Camera Arts, View Camera, Lenswork etc. doing in the US ?

In the UK, Borders used to stock all of them, but now I don't think I've seen any in the best part of a year - digital this and digital that have pushed them off the shelves.

Camera arts reviews used to be a bit superficial, but the magazine did present a good range of quality photographic work.

 

[Kyle]

I can easily find View Camera and Lenswork at the larger bookstores in my city (Borders, Barnes & Noble, etc.) However, I have never heard of Camera Arts.

 

[ZeissFan]

Camera Arts is the sister publication to View Camera -- that is, it's produced and published by the same group.

The physical size of Camera Arts has shrunk. It used to be the same size as most other magazines, it's now smaller (height and width).

The editors and some of the writers are former editors and writers of Camera 35 -- a U.S. publication that folded somewhere around 1979 or 1980.

 

[titrisol]

Camera Arts can be found in B&N at least here (Raleigh, NC)

 

[ronnie_retro]

Thanks to the tip, I picked up a copy last weekend. The magazine seems to cover the type work rangefinders are know for, so it makes sense they're reviewing the Zeiss.

Myself, I found the review fairly superficial. It does answer some important questions for those considering the camera (12th stop shutter increments in auto mode, that sort of thing). It does little more than catalog the lenses available from Zeiss though, and I didn't find any user evaluation of them.

My own $.02 is that the camera has a very high quality feel with a superb viewfinder and shutter release. Only thing I don't like is the disappearing shutter speed readout, but that's not major. It's easily visible in the light situations where I might actually care about the shutter speed being too slow. Try it, you'll like it!

 

[Fred]

How distribution of magazines like Camera Arts, View Camera, Lenswork etc. doing in the US ?

In the UK, Borders used to stock all of them, but now I don't think I've seen any in the best part of a year - digital this and digital that have pushed them off the shelves.

Camera arts reviews used to be a bit superficial, but the magazine did present a good range of quality photographic work.

Yup, around here you ar lucky to find a copy of the AP, its all P&S dig pixels and PS walkthoughs on how to turn your mother in law into a goat. Very few decent photo magazines that discuss the method and not the medium.

 

[amateriat]

Camera Arts is the sister publication to View Camera -- that is, it's produced and published by the same group.

The physical size of Camera Arts has shrunk. It used to be the same size as most other magazines, it's now smaller (height and width).

The editors and some of the writers are former editors and writers of Camera 35 -- a U.S. publication that folded somewhere around 1979 or 1980.

The last issue of Camera 35 was either March or May 1982; I remember this because shortly thereafter I got a letter telling me they had ceased publication and were fulfilling the balance of my sub with either Modern Photography or American Photographer, I forget which. I wasn't happy. Thankfully, I had recently subscribed to the then-brand-new Camera Arts*, which I felt was about as good. It only managed to last a few years; I got a letter from them, too, alerting me that my just-re-upped subscrption was getting shunted to Popular. This tends to happn a lot...

The current Camera Arts has mostly been great.


- Barrett

* Some clarification here: Camera Arts has, in fact, gone through three incarnations, the first being sometime around 1937, and (I think) lasted a few years (no points for guessing why it didn't last longer). The second go-round (brought to you by the same folks who put out Popular), probably as a competitor to American Photographer, now American Photo) began around 1980 and lasted about two years; I think I still have every issue, maybe two copies each of a few. The third go at CA started in 1997, and, thankfully, is still going.