January 3 2022

Amateur Photographer

Amateur Photographer is the world's oldest weekly magazine for photography enthusiasts

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A Week In Photography
The film revival shows no sign of slowing down, which is very gratifying – it’s no longer a binary choice of film or digital, but photographers enjoying the benefits of both media. A good example of somebody who’s getting the best of both worlds is D
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Manish Boys At The BBC By Evening Standard
An 18-year-old David Bowie and his group The Manish Boys at the BBC TV centre. At the time, Bowie was still known as Davy Jones. The group performed their new single, ‘I Pity the Fool’ on the splendidly-monikered BBC show ‘Gadzooks! It’s All Happenin
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#appicoftheweek
Each week we choose our favourite picture on Facebook, Instagram, Flickr or Twitter using #appicoftheweek. PermaJet proudly supports the online picture of the week winner, who will receive a top-quality print of their image on the finest PermaJet pap
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AP Picture Of The Week
Postgraduate medical student Roshni says, ‘This photo was taken on a hike between Carnedd Dafydd and Carnedd Llewelyn looking out at Carnedd Y Filiast. My hiking activities have drastically reduced since starting my course! However, I try to explore
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We Also Liked...
‘This was taken at Radipole Lake Nature Reserve at Weymouth, Dorset. I’ve been to Radipole lots of times but never been lucky enough to see a bearded reedling before. The weather conditions were perfect, a warm sunny day with no wind, so on this occa
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OPPO Adds Hasselblad Imaging Technologies
OPPO has announced a three-year strategic partnership with Hasselblad in order to help to introduce ‘cutting-edge camera technologies’ to its flagship Find series of mobiles. The key aim of the partnership is to focus on developing and delivering inn
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Iconic NASA Images Under The Hammer
DOZENS of iconic images from NASA’s Apollo space programme are going under the hammer at the Bruun Rasmussen auction house in Copenhagen on 9 March 2022. A total of 74 NASA photographs, from the Apollo 8 to 17 missions, will be up for auction at 2pm
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Panasonic unveils flagship 25.2MP Lumix GH6
AFTER a series of delays Panasonic has finally introduced the 25.2MP Lumix GH6 as the new flagship model in its Micro Four Thirds mirrorless camera range. The camera was first announced in May 2021 but its official launch was delayed until 22 Februar
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Luminar Neo Editing App Launches
SKYLUM has revealed its Luminar Neo AI-driven photo-editing app, which offers features such as Relight AI, Powerline Removal, Dust Spot Removal and faster image editing workflows. Luminar Neo succeeds the Luminar AI software and is available for £59
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Canon Trims EF Lens Range To Focus On RF
THE CANON Japan website has confirmed that the total number of available Canon EF lenses is now down to just 40, with all of the other previously available lenses listed in a ‘Discontinued Product Information’ part of the site. Those 40 comprise 27 E
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Whale Shark Image Wins UPY 2022
AN IMAGE of five whale sharks feeding on plankton at night, has won the Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) 2022 title for Rafael Fernandez Caballero from Spain. The UPY competition has been run since 1965 and Fernandez’s photo, ‘Giants of the
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Books & exhibitions
Until 3 April 2022, Free, Martin Parr Foundation, Paintworks, Bristol. See martinparrfoundation. for opening times In 2020, Martin Parr Foundation held an open call for a UK-based curator to present a photographic show in the Foundation’s gallery.
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From The Archive
AS FUEL costs and supply shortages wreak havoc on businesses and household budgets in 2022, take comfort from the fact we’ve been here before. Here’s the Editor’s leader from 75 years ago this week. ‘The slowly-gathering fuel crisis, accelerated by t
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First Dan
Dan Rubin is a well-known name in the film photography community; as well as being an accomplished film photographer and teacher who works with Ilford, Leica and other big names, he’s well established as a top digital creative who was there right at
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Dan Rubin
Born in Miami but now living in London, Dan is a pro film and digital photographer, and creative director. Dan created and hosted the Apple Event series Meet The iPhone Photographer, and co-founded The Photographic Journal. See danrubin.is and @danru
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Dan’s Favourite Film Cameras
I have a lot of cameras, and acquire way more than I need – it’s worse for me as I am also a product designer, so I am fascinated by a camera’s form factor and design. But my favourites are as follows: This is my favourite 35mm SLR. A lot of people d
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Recommended Labs To Try
● www.bayeux.co.uk This is one of the most experienced pro labs in London, with a great team which seems to have been there forever! ● www.kirkleesphotographic.com A newer lab, but it does amazing work. Costs are competitive as it is outside London s
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Letter Of The Week
I was brought up on the Exposure Triangle analogy to illustrate the factors involved in photographic exposure. Recently, when trying to assist people with understanding this exposure issue, I’ve realised that, while this analogy tells you there are t
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Group Editor Nigel Atherton Deputy Editor Geoff Harris Technical Editor Andy Westlake Features Editor Amy Davies Technique Editor Hollie Latham Hucker Online Editor Joshua Waller Deputy Online Editor Jessica Miller Production Editor Jacqueline
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Inbox
Write to the Editor at ap.ed@kelsey.co.uk and include your full postal address. Please don’t send letters in the post as there is no one in the office to receive them. Replies are from the Editor unless otherwise stated I was inspired by the article
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Join the Club
When was the club founded? We were founded in 1895. What does your club offer to new members? We have a monthly Zoom questions-and-answers session, where members can ask any question and a group of experienced members can help, often screen-sharin
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Club Essentials
New Beacon Conference & Exhibition Centre. Stafford Enterprise Park. Beacon Road, Stafford ST18 0BF Meets Tuesday evenings from September to May in Stafford; monthly Monday evening Q&A Zoom sessions from September to May Membership £35 per year, ha
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Dismal Photographs
On August 20, 1619, the English privateer ship White Lion landed in the British colony of Virginia, USA, at the ineptly named Point Comfort. The 20-30 enslaved Angolans would find none. Around 350 Africans were originally kidnapped by Portuguese colo
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Raising The Game
A global collective boasting contributors and followers from around the world, Grain Gurls is run by Tonicha Gordon and Nikki Layton. According to the Grain Gurls website (graingurls.com), their aim is to support women and non-binary people who do wh
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Can Analogue Photography Be Eco-friendly?
The importance of sustainable practices and ecological awareness in all walks of life has become all too apparent in recent years. The recent COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow last November certainly brought more global attention to the issu
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FILM STARS Autofocus – Who Needs It?
In the pre-autofocus era of the late 1970s and early 1980s manual-focus single lens reflexes (SLRs) reached their peak. It was a time when electronic shutter wizardry, sophisticated metering and attractive yet functional design came together with top
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Not Only, But Also…
Remembering manual-focus SLRs of the 1970s and 1980s, it’s easy to forget that the Big Five were not the only contenders. Quietly simmering in their shadows were other quality cameras from names like Chinon, Cosina, Fujica, Konica, Mamiya, Petri, Pra
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What To Pay
Canon New F-1 £250-300 Canon T90 £40-70 Chinon CE-4 £15-25 Fujica ST605N £20-40 Konica FS-1 £30-50 Minolta X-1 £275-350 Minolta XD7 £50-100 Nikon EM £40-75 Nikon F3 £300-350 Olympus OM-4 £150-250 Olympus OM10 £50-75 Pentax LX £300-400 Pen
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Forgotten Classics
Manual-focus 35mm SLRs might have reached their peak in the 1980s, but they had been around since 1936 when Ihagee produced the Kine Exakta, the first 35mm SLR. Here are three classics that are still very usable despite being largely forgotten today.
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At A Glance
£9.2435mm, 36 exp £8.85 120 £63.205x4, box of 25 ● A monochrome film that is not sensitive to red light ● Available in a wide range of film sizes ● Offers interesting effects for landscape and architecture ● Uses standard monochrome processing ● ilf
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Ilford Ortho Plus
First, a bit of history. Ilford’s Ortho Plus film is part of an imaging tradition that has its roots in Victorian times. While most monochrome films today are panchromatic, meaning they respond similarly to all colours of visible light, Ortho Plus is
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Verdict
IN A world where so much of photography is built around emphasising colour saturation in images, it is refreshing to find a product which makes its mark by simplifying what you are recording and gives you less information rather than more. Trying Ilf
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Samsung MicroSD PRO Plus / EVO Plus
● From £11 ● www.samsung.com/uk/memory-storage I REMEMBER once paying £60 for a second-hand 1GB hard drive for my PC. It was roughly the size of a book, and could hardly store anything by today’s standards. Now you can get 128GB of storage in a micr
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Buying Guide
Interchangeable lenses come in a huge array of types for shooting different kinds of subjects IN GENERAL, the easiest way to expand the kinds of pictures you can take is by buying different types of lenses. For example, telephoto lenses let you zoom
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Final Analysis
One of the most influential photography books on my own photographic career is Looking For Love, photographs by Tom Wood of Chelsea Reach nightclub, New Brighton, Merseyside. The book was first published in 1989 by Cornerhouse Publications. I must ha

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