Amateur Photographer

Amateur Photographer is the world's oldest weekly magazine for photography enthusiasts

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Welcome
I just celebrated a major birthday and decided to spend it in my favourite city, Cape Town. To make the trip even more special I was loaned the new Fujifilm X-T50 to take with me – making me the first UK journalist to get my hands on it. Find out why
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New Nikon 35mm Lens For Z Mount
The 35mm focal length is favoured by street and travel photographers as it’s wide enough to soak up the scene while also enabling you to get in close to your subject – it’s very versatile and has a similar perspective to the human eye. Nikon has just
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AI Updates For Older Samsung Phones
Owners of Samsung Galaxy S22-series smartphones dating from 2022 can now access the company’s latest AI updates, which includes photo-editing tools. Users of the older handsets will notice the more streamlined and intuitive camera app layout, while c
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This Week’s Contributors
Should you stop down or focus stack to control depth of field in macro? James is your guide The AP regular talks to Dafydd Jones about his book documenting high society in the Big Apple Editor AP’s editor takes the Fujifilm X-T50 out on a field test
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Have You Heard The One About…
This entertaining image by Wendy Kaveney is among the entries for this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards. The 2024 awards, which closeto entries on 31 July, have a wide range of categories (including birds, insects and fish), and help to raise awar
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High-end Smartphone Savings
The Honor Magic 6 Pro, one of the best affordable high-end smartphones, is currently available for £849 via the Honor website, a saving of £250 (correct at time of going to press). Key features include a 50MP main and ultrawide cameras, plus a 180MP
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Specialist IPhone Macro Lens
The Sandmarc Probe, a macro lens that can be attached to your iPhone, has been launched by the eponymous company. It’s a 12in lens with a wide depth of field so more of the scene can be kept in focus compared to a traditional macro lens. The lens als
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Leica D-Lux 8 lands
Leica is now selling the latest camera in its D-Lux range of compacts, the D-Lux 8. Compared to its predecessor, the D-Lux 7, it comes with a new, higher-quality viewfinder – a 2.4MP, 4:3 OLED unit, rather than a 16:9 field-sequential LCD. The body i
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Panasonic’s Website Howler
There are lots of apologetic bows over at Panasonic HQ in Japan after it’s been revealed that the company used stock images to promote its cameras and lenses, including shots taken on rivals’ gear. When the Panasonic Lumix S9 was announced, online sl
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The Ocean Speaks by Matt Porteous and Tamsin Raine
£28, White Lion Publishing, 240 pages, ISBN: 978-0711288935 As many will already know, over 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water, and most of that water is contained within its five oceans. Our oceans play a vital role in making our planet
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Foreign Affairs
New York, 1988. Homicides were increasingly attributed to crack cocaine distribution. The Secret Service cracked the largest counterfeiting ring in US history, arresting 85 people for counterfeiting over $100 million in currency. A riot in Tompkins S
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The Sundial, Remarkables Range, New Zealand
When Simon Carter went travelling in New Zealand in spring 2004, one of the locations on his bucket list was The Remarkables, a range of mountains near Queenstown on the South Island. He especially wanted to photograph an unusual rock formation known
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The Cape, And Good Hope
£1,299 body only ● 40.2MP APS-C X-Trans sensor● ISO 125-12,800 (standard)● 8fps shooting (20fps with electronic shutter and 1.3x crop)● 2.36m-dot, 0.62x electronic viewfinder● 3in, 1.84m-dot tilting touchscreen● 6K 30p, 4K 60p, Full HD 240p video Wha
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Tamron 70-180mm F/2.8 Di III VC VXD G2
If the first lens any photographer needs is a standard zoom, the second is probably a telephoto zoom. Here, there’s generally a compromise to be made between maximum aperture on the one hand, and size, weight, and price on the other. Tamron’s 70-180m
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Bowman Peak Duo
● From £41.95 ● bowmanleather.co.uk I must admit, I’m choosy about camera straps. I don’t use those that come with cameras, preferring something simpler and unbranded. With small cameras, I’m always wavering between whether to fit a neck strap for ea
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Mamiya RZ67 Professional
LAUNCHED 1982 PRICE AT LAUNCH £460 (approximately) GUIDE PRICE NOW £700-900 (average) Weighing in at just under 3kg and measuring a huge 24x20x12cm with standard lens and waist-level finder hood erected, the RZ67 is best used on a tripod and preferab
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Depth Of Field Vs Focus Stacking For Macro Photography
Macro photography naturally opens up an entirely new set of opportunities for photographers by revealing the intricate details of the minutiae we so often miss. Many different techniques are used for shooting macro photography, which typically focuse
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Behind The Print
1 The image was shot in raw with settings of 1/100sec at f/5.6, ISO 800 2 The mud splatters are easily removed to give the shot a much cleaner, flawless appearance 3 Lightroom’s Denoise function reduces noise effectively with AI and creates a new DNG
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Email ap.ed@kelsey.co.uk Editorial Group Editor Nigel Atherton Deputy Editor Geoff Harris Technical Editor Andy Westlake Features Editor Amy Davies Acting Features Editor Ailsa McWhinnieActing Features Editor David ClarkTechnique Editor Hollie Lath
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Inbox
It was good to see Will Cheung’s article Optic Oddities (AP 4 June). Something I’ve not seen mentioned is using CCTV lenses to produce photographs. Some years ago, I used such a lens for extreme close-ups. The lens was a 2.8-12mm f/1.4 CCTV lens. Thi
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It's Good To Share
Nikon Z7, 24-200mm, 1/640sec at f/6.3, ISO 64 ‘A moment of checking the AyeTides app was enough for me to jump in the van and head over to Formby Beach, ideas popping and fizzing in my mind on the drive over. I was thinking the shots I’d get would be
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Join the Club
When was the club founded? In 1952, with nine founder members. We celebrated our 70th anniversary with an exhibition in 2022. What does your club offer to new members? Our season runs from September to March. We are a very friendly club that doesn
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Buying Guide
Interchangeable lenses come in a huge array of types for shooting different kinds of subjects IN GENERAL, the easiest way to expand the kinds of pictures you can take is by buying different types of lenses. For example, telephoto lenses let you zoom
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Final Analysis
I want to begin with a little exercise so please bear with me. Close your eyes and picture a giraffe. You know the kind of thing, tall, brownish with very long legs and stumpy horns. Can you see it? You may be surprised to hear that when I asked Iran

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