Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:08 AM 10/8/96 BST-1, you wrote: >I keep seeing references to it, what *is* Shutterbug? It used to be a wonderful little classified ad tabloid. Yellow paper, nothing but classifieds. Now it's a big oversized magazine that has way too many cheesy articles by mediocre to terrible photographers talking like they know what they're talking about. For example, the pictures in November that are remarkably bad are by Rober Mayer testing a Vivitar 19-35 zoom. The guy couldn't take a picture to save his life. They're so dark (slide film in mercury vapor light? Give me....er how terrible!) you can hardly see the subject, and it's bathed in green. But the classifieds are still useful, and the ads have mostly honest dealers, unlike the New York Collection in most other mags. Not that all the dealers are bad in the other mags, but Shutterbug has a different group, mostly. Oh, and it's based in the U.S. but has a few Canadian dealers. =========== Eric Welch Grants Pass, OR