Amateur Photographer - 7 December 2013.pdf

Amateur Photographer is the world's oldest consumer weekly photographic magazine, first published in October 1884. Since then, AP (as it is affectionately known to its readers) has been the bible for both amateur and professional photo-enthusiasts around the world. It has helped generations of photographers to improve their skills.


7 Dec. 2013 :

News
Photographer wins $1.2m copyright battle after three-year wrangle; Olympus cuts operating loss of its imaging business; Global camera shipments drop 38%; Huge vintage collection up for grabs

Review
The latest books, exhibitions and websites

The final frame
As part of his 52 cameras project, Tony Kemplen tries out the Photo Mission Action Man - a fully functioning, if extremely basic - film camera

Photo insight
While on a trip to a near-abandoned town in the USA, David Ward happened upon the right subject but the wrong light. He talks us through the 'Joshua Tree' picture that was ?worth waiting for

Retoucher's guide
Martin Evening explains how to enhance the contrast to remove unwanted haze from an image

Ask AP
Our experts answer your questions

Testbench
BlackRapid Sport R-Strap camera sling strap and Redged TCA-522K tripod & RNB-0n ball head

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX10
With the same sensor as the Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 II - one of the best compacts we've tested - could the RX10 bridge camera finally break the dominant hold of the DSLR and compact system camera? Richard Sibley finds out

Nikon D610
Is the 24.3-million-pixel Nikon D610 a cynical update or simply a great full-frame DSLR? Phil Hall puts it to the test

Letters
AP readers speak out on the week's issues

Backchat
The quantity and quality of images today leaves AP reader William BJ Spencer cold. There's just not enough originality any more, he says

Reader spotlight
Another selection of superb reader images

Appraisal
Chris Gatcum examines your images, offering words of wisdom and constructive advice

Darkness and light
With a love of dark forests and craggy mountain peaks, the talented German landscape photographer Kilian Schönberger captures an intriguing combination of darkness and light. Andrew James tracked him down

An English affair
With a new exhibition of Tony Ray-Jones's work on show at the Science Museum's Media Space, Jon Stapley talks to curator Greg Hobson and photographer Martin Parr about the legacy of a legend

Icons of photography
Angus McBean's love of glamour and celebrity inspired him to become one of Britain's most famous portrait and theatre photographers, writes David Clark