Popular Photography not so Popular: Received a Popular Science magazine in the mail today. An accompanying note informed me this is the magazine I will receive from now on until the...

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

Received a Popular Science magazine in the mail today. An accompanying note informed me this is the magazine I will receive from now on until the end of my Popular Photography subscription due to Popular Photography no longer being published. I must admit a bit of remorse since I read that magazine for the past 50+ years. I can still remember drooling over a Nikon F, or maybe a Topcon!

whitewolfowner

Bridges wrote:

Received a Popular Science magazine in the mail today. An accompanying note informed me this is the magazine I will receive from now on until the end of my Popular Photography subscription due to Popular Photography no longer being published. I must admit a bit of remorse since I read that magazine for the past 50+ years. I can still remember drooling over a Nikon F, or maybe a Topcon!

Yes, I got the same thing. I paid for Popular Photography, not Popular Science. I will be calling and demanding a refund for the remainder of my subscription. There was no warning to this either as far as I know. So typical to today's dishonest business practices. No one can convince me that the magazine went belly up over night; it was something planned well in advance and the truth was held from us. Personally, I will find out every magazine this publisher publishes and I will never buy into a single one of their products in the future.

bdk Loc: Sanibel Fl.

There has been messages here on UHH for a few months that PP was shutting down.
I still read my range finder from cover to cover and enjoy that...

drizztguen77 Loc: Tualatin, OR

I'm with whitewolfowner on this. I did not subscribe to Popular Science because that is not what I was interested in. I'll be calling and asking for a refund as well. It's kind of irritating that they just assume we are ok with substituting some other completely unrelated magazine.

DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina

soaro77 wrote:

I'm with whitewolfowner on this. I did not subscribe to Popular Science because that is not what I was interested in. I'll be calling and asking for a refund as well. It's kind of irritating that they just assume we are ok with substituting some other completely unrelated magazine.

Same here.

CLF Loc: Raleigh, NC

I sent an E-Mail this morning so I can have a paper trail dealing with what I consider a spam. I just subscribed to the magazine and received one issue. I through the Popular Science into the trash. The money for me was not much since it was bought on a reduced cost and for only one year. Like others have stated, they had to know when they processed my subscription that I would only be receiving one issue prior to them going belly up. I am looking at this as more of a scam then anything else.

My $.02, Greg

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

Bridges wrote:

Received a Popular Science magazine in the mail today. An accompanying note informed me this is the magazine I will receive from now on until the end of my Popular Photography subscription due to Popular Photography no longer being published. I must admit a bit of remorse since I read that magazine for the past 50+ years. I can still remember drooling over a Nikon F, or maybe a Topcon!

PP goes way back for me as well although it lost most of the appeal for me long before it died. My first SLR was a Topcon Auto100.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Bridges wrote:

Received a Popular Science magazine in the mail today. An accompanying note informed me this is the magazine I will receive from now on until the end of my Popular Photography subscription due to Popular Photography no longer being published. I must admit a bit of remorse since I read that magazine for the past 50+ years. I can still remember drooling over a Nikon F, or maybe a Topcon!

I'm surprised they lasted this long. They hadn't been very relevant since the 1980's.

I subscribed to 11 different photo industry magazines back then... ZERO since 2011. The Internet is much faster, cheaper, and better. And it has video, and fits in my pocket!

badapple Loc: Twin Lake, Michigan

whitewolfowner wrote:

Yes, I got the same thing. I paid for Popular Pho... (show quote)

Got same thing. But at least they offered seven other magazines you could order in place of popular science.

leftj Loc: Texas

Bridges wrote:

Received a Popular Science magazine in the mail today. An accompanying note informed me this is the magazine I will receive from now on until the end of my Popular Photography subscription due to Popular Photography no longer being published. I must admit a bit of remorse since I read that magazine for the past 50+ years. I can still remember drooling over a Nikon F, or maybe a Topcon!

Wow Topcon! Haven't seen any post mentioning that brand on UHH. My first SLR camera. Bought it in 1967 while in Thailand.

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

There is so much photographic information over the Internet that I do not see the need to subscribe to a photographic magazine.
For many years I read Modern Photography mainly because of Mr. Keppler. When he died I dropped the subscription and he was at Popular Photography already.
I was always skeptical of their camera and lenses "tests." I could see bias in many of their conclusions. It is not that I do not see it also in many Internet reviews but there is so much information, specially from users that to me is irrelevant what a review thinks about a camera or lens when testing it. If I am interested in such a camera or lens I try to test it and today it is so easy with several places that rent photo gear, like Lens Rentals to give you an example.
If I had a subscription to Popular Photography and they offer to send me a non photography magazine my answer will be NO.

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

I had read that they were going out of business awhile back so their demise wasn't unexpected to me. This is what is happening to all magazines. With the advent of the internet, their ad revenues have declined to where it is no longer profitable to stay in business. My favorite back in the 70's was Peterson's Photographic. That was one of the first to go because it had few ads.. Same thing is happening with newspapers.

milemarker17

I was also a fan of Modern Photography and Mr. Kepler. (Konica Auto S2 and Miranda Sensorex were my first 2 units). The circumstances of PP's shutdown seem on the cynical side to me, as well. In support of current magazines, though, I like Outdoor Photographer a lot, and I've been buying a Canadian quarterly on the newsstand called Nature Photographer that's just gorgeous and allows the photographers plenty of editorial space to tell their stories. There's also a Brit pub, Digital Camera World, that has something for everyone in each issue though it's definitely on the pricey side.

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

milemarker17 wrote:

I was also a fan of Modern Photography and Mr. Kep... (show quote)

You must be from Baltimore with an Earl Weaver avatar...lol

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

DeanS wrote:

Same here.

+1; although because my subscription was digital, I did get advance notice.