Mikes old magazine, "Camera and Creative Darkroom Techniques" has taken a very different approach to the advertising end of things since he left. The magazine is now 100% advertising. There is a table of contents which tells you how to get to the ads. Articles are thinly disguised promos for whatever the writer happens to have been given to test, and nothing is ever really wrong with anything. The last paragraph is usually a testimonial about how wonderful the product is, and how it became such a must have item for the tester, that he went out and bought one for himself. The Contax N1 article was particularly appalling in this regard. It was a blatant infomercial. It reminds me of the old Popular Photography magazine, except with a bit more polish. Even Ctein has sold out to this marvel of crappy journalism.
William Robb
