Photography has entertained, informed and infuriated me for over 55 years. This blog covers my interests in still, video, cine, monochrome and colour photography as well as dealing with optics for bird-watching and viewing wildlife. The reader will also find something on the history of photography in Britain from the 1950s to the present day.
Sunday, 13 July 2014
What an Idiot
A readers writing congratulating the editor on the new look of Amateur Photographer (I see no improvement in the content so far, but that is by the way) also objected to the magazine reviewing a lens (Zeiss Otus) consisting in excess of £3,000. Is there any hope when a magazine is expected to be run on the politics of envy? Of course we need good reviews of top-of-the-range equipment, even if only to allow a judgement to be made of whether a particular improvement or feature is worth paying for. A few more readers might be retained if this magazine aimed higher. There are many amateur photographers out there with expensive but appropriate gear for what they want to do who despair at the never-ending reviews of low-level cameras that litter the magazines. Do magazines in the USA, where the magazines seem much more aspirational, have this problem?
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