[Leica] Magazine quality

["Doug Richardson" <doug@meditor.demon.co.uk>]

Alex Brattell <alex@zetetic.co.uk> wrote:

>I am thinking of ending my subscription to the British Journal of
Photography - it has too many mistakes in it, reading like it was
spallchucked but not proof read. It is more and more just a collection
of
press releases and some quick articles. Well, it's a bit better than
that,
but I have come to  expect a lot from this ancient and venerable
publication
that is supposed to be the last word on its subject.

I've got a similar opinion about the British weekly "Amateur
Photographer".  Looking through some of my father's old Leica-related
papers and catalogues, I came across a review which he'd kept. It
reminded me just how informative and well-written the old "AP" used to
be. There was some discussion in the last few months about how the
magazine had badly reviewed the M6, and had published a reader's
anti-Leica "flame" letter. This doesn't surprise me; today's "AP" is a
poorly-written tabloid-style magazine whose idea of journalism is to
invite readers to vote for the Greatest Camera of all Time, and to run
a "20 years ago" column which makes sneery comments about older issues
of the magazine.

Regards,

Doug Richardson