GrumpyOldBeardGuy

I find this sad, although probably inevitable. Magazines have a hard time in the digital world. When I first started in photography back in the '70s, I bought Popular Photography, Modern Photography, occasionally Petersen's Photographic, and anything else that caught my interest. They were a source of much inspiration. But it was nice having a physical photo to look at. My phone just doesn't have the same ability.

Oh, well.

djlouden Loc: Ocala, Florida

Sad to see this. I prefer reading magazines in print format. I just don't like the way the digital versions lay out. I subscribed for many years to PC Magazine and PC World. When they went to the digital only format I stopped subscribing.

I still get Shutterbug and enjoy its content, Outdoor photographer, and being a Canon shooter EOS Magazine from England.

Happy Shooting (and reading)

mborn Loc: Massachusetts

DP review released that story https://www.dpreview.com/news/8050322576/popular-photography-magazine-and-popphoto-com-to-close-after-nearly-80-years
But Pop Phot website still is offering subscriptions https://subscribe.popphoto.com/pubs/BN/PPH/allaccess_PayPal.jsp?cds_page_id=212750&cds_mag_code=PPH&id=1488895695717&lsid=70660808157013824&vid=1&cds_misc_2=HD-TXT&cds_misc_1=web-i-pph&cds_response_key=IWACLEYB0

pendennis

Popular and Modern Photography were rivals for a number of years. Modern fell on hard times and "merged" with Popular Photography. Popular was the dominant party in the merger and Modern went away. A number of editors, authors, photographers, etc., became part of Popular Photography, including Herb Keppler. For a while, "Modern" appeared in the title block of the cover.

markie1425 Loc: Bryn Mawr, PA

I hate to admit this publicly, but when I was a kid, Pop Photo, Modern Photo and National Geo were the only reliable sources of nude female images at the local library.

We were so naive then—compared to the prurient slush on the Internet today.
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Cfolk Loc: Scottsdale, AZ

I just renewed😠😠😠

Vinman

Terrible magazine. Little info lots of adds.been into photography since 1968 and never thought it was any good.

cbtsam Loc: Monkton, MD

Oh yes. Back in the 50's, I used to read the triumvirate: Popular Photography, Modern Photography, and U.S. Camera.

jonsommer Loc: Usually, somewhere on the U.S. west coast.

if a business is using the identical global strategy today as it was 10 years ago, no matter what kind of business it is, it is already in deep, deep trouble. Lincoln (the Ford Motor product) up until recently, built big floaty, luxo-barges, the kind that our retired grandparents used to buy, until they realized, almost too late, that very few people want a luxo-barge any more. J.C. Penny and even Sears are in trouble in the retail world, both their strategies are very little changed in the last 30 years. The power that newspapers used to have turned into arrogance and that turned into an abuse of power and many ended up producing highly slanted 'news' that people now are finding alternative sources for. The old community camera stores are mostly all gone, it seems that a commodity product like a camera body or lens doesn't need it's own retail outlet in every community when the same products can be had at better prices from a national mega-store. The last time I picked up a photography magazine I noticed there were a lot of ads, a product review or two, a featured photographer, and a 'how to' article or two. Consumers (that's you and I) don't have to pay to read someones opinion on products that we suspect is often written to keep major manufacturers coming back, because there are so many other choices. It could be that in a single issue there would not be any editorial content of interest to a subscriber. So often, we as consumers, vote with out wallets, we want the best value possible, even if it comes from China or some other foreign entity, and our attitude often seems to be 'screw some one else's job if it will save me $20' so many careers are disappearing. In fact, how many 100 year old careers are still thriving, of course there's the obvious one of prostitute, attorney, politician, physician, farmer and then the list starts to thin out drastically. Times change, people don't, but technology and the continuous quest for a competitive advantage marches forward, it rewards the business 'adroits' who are responsive to market trends and punishes the business 'rigids' who think they don't need to change because change is scary for most folks. Nothing is sacred in the business world, printing something on paper and mailing to subscribers all seem like very quaint and old fashioned ideas, and it's probably time for them to go. Nostalgia won't save a product past its prime that no longer delivers what consumers want. People this very minute are trying to figure out how they can gain a competitive advantage by eliminating your job. Anybody mourning the passing of receptionist or switch board operator or milk man jobs. I didn't think so. There's a lot of jobs about to be replaced by robots and artificial intelligence. Progress always produces some grief, always has and always will, but the future is bright and promising and is certainly not dependent on the existence of 1000's of magazine article writers to come about.

OK, will somebody please take away my soap box.

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

Sad but true...

Keldon Loc: Yukon, B.C.

I signed up for a subscription to Popphoto as a money raiser for my grandsons school. The first (and apparently the last) issue I received was the March issue and I was surprised at the low quality of the magazine, both physically(cheap paper and poor printing) as well as content. There wasn't a single article I found interesting or relevant.
I've been getting the various photo mags out of Britain for years and they are superior in every way to Popphoto. No wonder it's going belly-up.

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

I do remember both, Popular Photography and Modern Photography magazines. Both were very popular in the 60's.
Many photographers reading Modern Photography complained about the biased tests. As a matter of fact at the time lenses were judged as "excellent, very good, good and mediocre." I cannot remember exactly how they arrived at those conclusions. The original 24-120 Nikkor got raved reviews but a large group of photographers disputed those reviews. Their copies were not as sharp as the magazine suggested. I had one in the 70's and I honestly could not complain of its quality.
Eventually I became disappointed in both magazines, especially when Herbert Kepler quit Modern Photography and moved to Popular Photography. I remember his articles full of good information.
Digital has changed radically the way we make and edit photographs and I believe it is also changing other things.
I have not subscribed to any other magazine ever since. I find very easy to find good information in the photography forums and the Internet.

CPR Loc: Nature Coast of Florida

To replace Popular Photography Magazine you would have to start an online magazine about cellphone cameras...........................

richardsaccount

Yes, I remember Modern Photography Magazine and Camera 35, U.S. Camera, Darkroom Photography, Photo Techniques Magazine, View Camera Magazine, Camera Arts Magazine ad infinitum.
If this is true it is sad.

Screamin Scott Loc: Marshfield Wi, Baltimore Md, now Dallas Ga

I do, but my favorite back then was Peterson's Photographic...