I just stopped buying Practical Photography because there was less and less
advanced content, more and more crap "It's time to shoot..." type articles,
and the "reviews" were disguised advertising for Canon and Nikon! Amateur
Photographer is heading the same way: they even had a head-to-head
comparison of the bottom line Canon and Nikon DSLR's under the guise of
those being the only contenders for the cheapest DSLR buy, without even
mentioning the Pentax or the Konica-Minolta models, which are generally
cheaper, in the UK at least!
The best part of AP is still the readers' portfolios and the general news of
photography, including the paranoid proposals for casting suspicion on any
photographer, especially with a long lens, in a public place, fer gawd's
sake!
Just renewed my sub to the 37th. Frame - at least it's a sensible read!
John Coyle
Brisbane, Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Roshchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: ist-DS "secrets" in Pop Photo
I find Practical Photography (printed in UK) much better than
the Popular Photography.
I used to be reading it (some parts of it) regularly several years ago
(1999-2000 or so),
but then I found that I see less and less new material in it.
I concluded that on one hand the content of that magazine was
somewhat cyclic (i.e. repetitive), and on another hand, I was overgrowing
it.
There were two favorite parts of that journal:
1. The editors and/or guest photographers
were discussing readers' photos, giving their
opinion of what is good, and what is bad (composition, exposure,
cropping, ...), and what could be done to improve those photos.
This includes "photo clinic" , and analyses of the specially organized
readers'(or journalists'?) photo-shootings.
2. Relatively good comparative reviews of lenses, camera bodies, films,
etc.
Those were helpful to me for chosing the lenses, and via me -
to my friends for chosing their equipment.
In addition to these, they had overall much better quality pictures
(less cliche, more original) then those in Pop.Photography, and
some other occasional interesting articles.
Igor
