PeggySue58 Loc: Sedro Woolley, WA

This is sad indeed. I always renewed my subscription for 2 years, therefore mine is through January, 2018. Guess I won't be receiving the rest of my subscription! Have read for years, and have quite a stockpile of them, however I have noticed the quality going downhill, sad to say.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Was DPReview fake?

charles brown Loc: Tennesse

I remember Modern and read Popular and American Photography. Sad, but a sign of the times. Interestingly, when you go into a Barnes and Noble Book store the magazine section has several photography magazines. However, they are mostly British publications. Wonder if they are having the same experience.

jct842

I subscribed to quite a few magazines, 2 darkroom ones, popular, modern, and shutterbug when it was a giant magazine. Anyway when they started to review digital cameras that cost gazillions and could not come close to a 35mm in quality I gave up and quit reading and even photography for some 20 years. I am back and am still not going to spend $3000 or more for a camera.

dar_clicks Loc: Utah

Sad if true. I honestly detest reading articles on line instead of print. In a magazine at least there aren't ads popping up or covering over what I'm trying to read every few seconds and I can peruse the ads that I wish to see at my own convenience. There are so many thousands of lines of code nowadays for each page (because of connections to ad servers, etc.) that most web pages are slow and inconvenient to scroll through or read, even over a broadband connection. I'd much rather sit in an easy chair with a cuppa close by and read the printed page.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

I just spoke to the editorial department an Bonnier Corporation in Carlsbad, CA. Popular Photography ceased publication effective 03/01/2017. Their number is 760-707-0100, ext. 5.

larrylee Loc: East Tennessee Mtns.

I have subscribed to P.P. for many, years, but must say It has really gone downhill over the last two or three years. I did renew this year, because of content and quality. Not sorry to see them go: Larry

hopthecop Loc: salisbury md

i do, i also remember u.s.camera...

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Sorry sign of our times.

Don

pendennis

I started reading both in the mid-60's. At the time, there was enough editorial content difference to justify buying both. However, in the mid-70's, I noticed that with the technology changes (snail's pace at the time), that both magazines seemed to laud equipment that was really sorry in real usage. Spiratone was a major advertiser, and their gadgets always got rave reviews, even the preset lenses were touted, and their used junk showed up at the photo shows at theft prices, mostly lying untouched.

If you subscribed more than three years, you were guaranteed to get a rehashed article about some type of photo or developing technique from the past.

When the discounters filled the last half of the magazine, the magazines almost never responded to bad service from them. I had a really awful experience with 47th St Photo, taking forever to resolve. I even wrote to both mags, and got very short shrift from them. I only occasionally bought the mags on the newsstand from then on.

In fairness to any hard copy publication like them, they can't beat the web for breaking product news.

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

Yep. One of the Breaking News Website is The New Camera. Short articles, but quick on the draw.

Maik723

SHITTTTtttttttttttt.........

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Please don't. Digital $#!t smells particularly bad, and it causes cancer of the monitor...

salmander

Sad to hear. I still have an active subscription with more than a year left. Oh well.

Does anyone on UHH know about Zoom magazine? They started in Paris in 1970. I discovered their American edition in 1985. Five issues per year, $10 per copy - pretty expensive in those days - ads only on the inside covers - later they went ad free. They were a large 9-and-a-half inches by 12-and-three-quarters inches. They referred to themselves as a magazine for professional and artistic photographers. The articles usually featured a particular artist's work, often full page. You could always see that they had a vision of what they were attempting. Most of it was not the "regular" content you see in the media today, and, in fact, most magazines would probably never consider publishing their work, because it would seem too "far out" for the general consumer. Eye opening and enlightening, nonetheless. Real keepers. They seemed to have gone out in the mid 90s, but I see now, having Googled it, that they are currently publishing. Same size. $120 for the print edition, only $19 for the online edition - quite a difference in price. Someone must have bought them out and/or continued the name and content. I wonder when they restarted, as I may have missed over 20 years. I have never seen it on newsstands in the States since the mid 90s.

Tomcat5133 Loc: Gladwyne PA

I like Digital Photo Pro and Digital Video Pro. I was a working Art Director for years and sadly think the Art Direction started to look dated. And advertising in magazines is disappearing.
They were good in their time I get Popular and Shutterbug but won't miss them. American Photo is good but thin. I just googled photo magazines and this popped up. Great review and
covers are the current crop of mags. I think the Art Direction look hurt some of them.
https://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/30-photography-magazines-worth-subscribing-to--photo-2618