I see no point in the two pages wasted for 'New releases'. I get inserts fall out of my newspaper every day with that information. And there is still more space being wasted on that damn DSLR listing. If you're going to have crap like that in the magazine at least balance it with a film products listing.
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David,
you have to accept, especially on a site like this, that there people who take a quasi-religious stance when it comes to digital photography. Nothing you can write will satisfy them until you state you accept their believes that it is all the work of the devil.
Given that, there are clearly many emotional connections between B&W photography and the various Silver Halide processes, many people have sweated blood over the years and still are working towards their view of perfection; to have all that effort apparently thrown away will be dispiriting to say the least.
For me, who has accepted I'll never be any more than an cumbersome photographer, I'm happy to shoot both 10x8 and with a DSLR. I'm not that bothered about the debate, but I am a subscriber to the magazine because I want to read something new about the format that I don't get from Amateur Photographer, for example, so a bit more on the practice and a little less on the latest widget would be appreciated.
My, what a presumptuous, presupposing and ghastly person you are!
hmm...
Seems a bit of the pot calling the kettle black here. You know absolutely nothing about me, yet you've already formed an opinion. But that's OK, everyone is entitled to an opinion, even me. Difference is, I didn't ask for yours...
Seems a bit of the pot calling the kettle black here. You know absolutely nothing about me, yet you've already formed an opinion. But that's OK, everyone is entitled to an opinion, even me. Difference is, I didn't ask for yours...
Until such time as we meet, all we will ever know about each other is what we can glean from our written words. We should therefore temper our response with that in mind; something that is not always easy as some of my own replies illustrate to my eternal embarrassment.
As an editor I do this job in the eternal hope that, should I ever have the pleasure of meeting any of you in the future, that words can become laughter as we enjoy a pint together and discuss how much we all love this crazy world that is photography!
Well, got my issue earlier today and a definite improvement over the last few issues in content. A good range of features. Some of interest, some less so - but that's par for the course and fair enough. Good range of pictures too (a bit too much bias to the historical perhaps, if I'm being picky).
However...
I do not like reading swearing in a magazine article.
Neither do I appreciate having my intelligence insulted by an "Advertising Feature". There is no such thing: it is either a feature or it is an advert. One or t'other. To pretend it is a feature is to try and con the reader and I have a very low tolerance of such insults. If this is going to be a regular event then that will spell the end of my readership - I can live with the digital (I usually just skim though it) but if I won't live with the irritation of having to check the top of each article in order to find out if this is a feature or an advert.
The DSLR listing continues to be a pointless waste of space.
My wife bought me a years subscription in 2006 which recently ran out. I haven't bothered renewing but instead purchase at my local newsagent. The last two issues have, to say the least, been "quick reads" with little to get my teeth into. I don't have a lot of photographic knowledge, which is why I'm on this forum to learn, but I do like something to stimulate the brain, and at the moment it ain't happening. Something i do miss is Alice Burton's webwatch, a very handy little piece directing us to other photographers online efforts. Much can be learnt from looking at their work, both photographically and webdesign wise. I can apprecciate in these days with the proliferation of "photographic" magazines, almost every other of which is digitally focussed, there is a need to appeal to as many as people as possible, purely from financial terms. After all, the publishers are there to make money, not just satisfy the luddites amongst us (I'm one, a luddite that is).
I shall continue to buy the magazine, simply because it's the best of an increasingly big, indifferent bunch, with only a moderate lean towards the latest "boys toys".
Some of you may have spotted a much earlier copy of B&W mag in the classifieds from an APUGer for the cost of postage. Well I bought it and yes I am coming to the point which is that it was a fine read but no better than either the recent Oct and Dec edition.
As one who had never bought the mag before I couldn't see a vast difference between the early copy(OK only one of many since published) and the two I have bought recently.
No, it's not perfect and I am still not sure I will buy every month but I will make it my business to check in W.H. Smiths whenever I pass. I can see me buying some. I used to get AP but simply now skim through it in the library and turn to the Roger Hicks article at the end which is the views of a photographer on photography and life rather than an article on a film, process etc. No point in Roger trying to impart direct info on analogue in a page. He can't stop the AP tide and I suspect if he tried, he'd go under or be pushed under by the AP powers that be.
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