November 19 2024

Amateur Photographer

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

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Welcome
Documentary photographers are storytellers. Their work shines a light on people and events around the world and contributes to a valuable archive for future historians. So much of our understanding of what life was like for previous generations comes
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This Issue’s Contributors
Features Editor Amy speaks to the editor of a new Magnum tome, and tests Nikon’s Z 50mm f/1.4 lens The AP regular writes about an exhibition on life in war zones, and also interviews Tariq Zaidi The photography journalist and author speaks to top avi
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‘Vlog-friendly’ Nikon Z50II arrives
NIKON has announced an updated version of its DX (APS-C) format Z50 mirrorless camera, the Nikon Z50II. While the new camera shares the same specifications as its predecessor, it gains an updated body design and control layout, significantly improved
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Sony honours Susan Meiselas
INFLUENTIAL US documentary photographer Susan Meiselas is to receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography accolade at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards (SWPA). Meiselas (b. 1948) has been working as a photographer for over 50 years; as
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On Your Bikes
PHIL Reeds, from Otley, West Yorkshire, has won the CEWE Photo of the Month competition with this stunning image of a bike race in his home town. ‘Peloton Melee’ captures cyclists turning a bend within the course and was taken on a Nikon D7200 DSLR w
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Big Societies Event Returns
THE SOCIETIES is holding its 22nd annual photography convention & trade show at the Novotel London West hotel from 15 January to 18 January 2025. Over 100 leading brands will be at the trade show, including Nikon, Canon, Sony, and Fujifilm, with over
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Motorsport Shooters Get Set
A new competition, the Amateur Motorsport Photography Awards, has been launched by The Photographic Adventure Company. ‘If you’re an amateur motorsports photographer spending your weekends at a race circuit or motorsport event across the UK, then thi
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Super-rare Leicas Go Under The Hammer
IT’S 70 years since Leica introduced the revolutionary M rangefinder system and to celebrate, several historic Leica M models will go up for grabs at the 45th Leitz Photographica Auction in Vienna on 23 November. Highlights include a fully working M
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RPS Award winners
THE ROYAL Photographic Society (RPS) has announced the recipients of its 2024 awards. Top honours go to Dr Ingrid Pollard MBE, who receives the Centenary Medal for her outstanding contribution to the art of photography. A founding member of Autograph
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Joel Meyerowitz: Temporal Aspects
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale $16. See nsuartmuseum.org for more details It’s fair to say that it’s not often we feature foreign exhibitions on our pages here, but, seeing as it’s perhaps just as likely that some of you will be visiting Florida as
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The Tapestry by Erik Madigan Heck
£75, Thames & Hudson, hardback, 360 pages, ISBN: 9780500025697 Inspired by historic tapestries, impressionist and contemporary painting, The Tapestry sees the photographic artist work with his own imagery by re-colouring, cropping and re-imagining hi
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It's Good To Share
Sony Alpha 1, Sigma 85mm F1.4 DG DN, 1/4sec at f/16, ISO 800 ‘Recently I’ve been feeling very lost with photography, why I take photos, what do my photographs mean and how I generally see the world. This photo is a combination of those lost and confu
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Nikon Nikkor Z 50mm f/1.4
Following on from the 35mm f/1.4 lens announced earlier this year, Nikon’s Z 50mm f/1.4 is only the second lens with this aperture for the Z mirrorless system. Traditionally, f/1.4 was favoured for those looking for a good balance between a large ape
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Flying High
For sheer excitement, air-to-air aviation photography takes some beating. You’re creating dynamic images while hurtling through the skies in fast-moving, high-tech aircraft in a variety of locations around the world, working closely with pilots and a
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Colbor W100
The light can run either from the mains, or from a battery via a D-Tap or USB-C connection. Colbor makes a PG99 battery grip that’s ideal for holding and powering the light. The W100 comes with a dish and a soft dome and is compatible with a softbox.
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Reader Portfolio
David is a photographer having previously worked as an engineer. You can see more of his work at daviddunnand.com How did you get into photography? I’m self-taught, and I have been photographing since I was little. My father bought me my first camer
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Email [email protected] Editorial 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
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Inbox
AP is at the forefront of advising keen photographers about the relentless progress of mobile phone cameras. The comprehensive review by Amy Davies is an excellent example. Yet a question arises: is a camera definitely still preferable on image quali
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This Week We Asked...
John D Ryan On at least three external hard drives. I use Western Digital and Seagate. Ryan @TweetsFailMe Amazon Prime unlimited photo storage. Ben Burchell I have a separate SSD on my computer which I download all of my raws (at least the ones I w
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Samsung Galaxy A55
The Galaxy A55 is one of Samsung’s entry-level phones, but it sits at the top of the A-series range. This means you can expect some mid-range or even premium level features. AI is not one of these, yet, but Samsung has pushed to enable AI in older mo
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Olympus OM30 + Zuiko AF lens
LAUNCHED 1983 PRICE AT LAUNCH £177 (with f/1.8 manual focus lens) GUIDE PRICE NOW WITH AF LENS £100 (recent auction sale) First there was the Olympus OM-1 in 1972, the camera that brought a new compact design to high-end 35mm single lens reflexes (SL
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Jupio x Pr1me Tri-Charge
● £130 ● jupio.com While many photographers can happily get through a day on a single battery and SD card, those who shoot more intensively need to manage additional power and storage. The Jupio x Pr1me Tri-Charge aims to meet the needs of these user
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Amateur Photographer Of The Year
More than any other subject, macro photography brings us closer – yes, literally – to the natural world, giving both photographer and viewer an insight into nature’s machinations that wouldn’t otherwise be possible. It’s a highly contemplative practi
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Round Seven: The Best of the Rest
Nikon D850, 24-70mm with +10 macro lens filter, 1/60sec at f/2.8, ISO 100 Geoff says: ‘I like this image as the photographer has tried to do something different and creative with the macro brief. Does the world really need any more close-ups of bugs,
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Portrait Prestige
In terms of contemporary photographic portraiture, there are a few competitions or outlets as prestigious – or as contentious – as the annual Taylor Wessing prize. This year, 62 portraits by 55 photographers are on display at the National Portrait Ga
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Women Of Resilience
‘I have family in Austria. I go to Austria a lot. Every year there is a festival, the Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo that comes from the previous year’s Photo Festival Gacilly in France. Every year I’ve seen this festival I just thought I want to do
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State Of The Nation
By the time you read this, we’ll have a new President Elect of the USA, and with all eyes on the land of the free, it’s perhaps the most potent time to bring out this immense volume. The large-format, 472-page, epic tome spans the Magnum Archive from
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Hidden Truths
Many of Tariq Zaidi’s photography projects deal with underreported communities and places. Sapeurs: Ladies & Gentlemen of the Congo (Kehrer Verlag 1st edition, 2020) presents a fashion subculture of Kinshasa and Brazzaville. Sin Salida (GOST, Oct 202
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Meeting This Year’s Oskar Winners
There are a lot of prestigious prizes in the photography world, but few have the cachet of the Oskar Barnack Award, organised by Leica and presented at the company’s storied HQ in Wetzlar, Germany. The award celebrates the best in documentary/reporta
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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
Worse things can happen to a photographer than a viewer showing no reaction to a picture, but it’s quite hard to think of one. No reaction is infinitely worse than heavy criticism. When someone really dislikes a picture we can comfort ourselves in th

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