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Daniel Lezano launches Digital SLR Photography magazine - In an ePHOTOzine World exclusive we can reveal that Daniel Lezano, who launched Photography Monthly magazine, is back editing a new magazine titled Digital SLR Photography and in the shops in November.
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They will also have the biggest photo competitions with their main photo-challenge not only offering around £16,000 of Canon kit, but also giving entrants the chance to gain a certificate in digital SLR photography. Their aim is to provide a real mix of information and inspiration and provide a range of articles and photographic approaches that will make their magazine stand out from many of the rather formulaic titles currently available.
A few facts about the magazine:
The editor is Daniel Lezano, who launched Photography Monthly in 2001 and was its editor until March this year.
Cover price is £3.70.
It’s a monthly magazine and is on sale from 14 November
It will be on sale at WH Smiths, leading supermarkets and newsagents.
Digital SLR Photography will be making the most of great pictures so there’s a constant requirement for stunning images. Their website www.digitalslrphoto.com will be live in early November provides a flavour of the content of the magazine and will provide picture requirements and guidelines for submissions.
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Very best of luck with it Dan. You did a great job at PM. Its a pity that since you left, both PP & PM now seem strikingly similar in their content.
Please don't make your new mag a clone of PP & PM - and try to do features on subjects other than landscape photography! I'm sure that you will deliver the goods - as you have always done.
Thanks to both of you for your comments. Dave, Digital SLR Photography will be distinctive and it will not be just yet another photo title. The feedback I've received from the trade & the reader research groups I've dealt with have been extremely positive. The articles will be innovative and very relevant to the reader, the design will be modern, interesting and well thought out and the magazine hopes to be very interactive with readers.
As an enthusiast photographer, I feel many of the magazines I've bought are hard to tell apart and covering the same subjects, so we hope to be very different and unique in our content, approach and appeal, but obviously you as the buying public will be the judge of that. We'll be receptive to your ideas & comments, so please let us know what you think of it when it appears on sale.
Keep visiting ephotozine as I'll be giving Pete exclusives right up to the launch on 14 November. Keep your eye on www.digitalslrphoto.com as you'll see an update on there shortly. All the best, Dan
This is most interesting news. The market place is crowded with titles, but I was impressed with the job you did at PM Dan, so if anyone can crack the market, it should be you.
There is nothing wrong with articles on landscapes - just don't let them become overpowering.
Best of luck, I will be looking for the first issue with great interest.
Mattw
Congratulations, Dan. I hope it's a great success.
It will be interesting to see what capacity the market has to expand: I see another new title - Digital SLR User - has just been launched.
There is a feeling expressed by many readers that many of the established titles have become repetitive. If you can be innovative and fresh in your approach, then I'm sure that Digital SLR Photography will stand out from the crowd.
The best of luck.
I'll definately buy this one of the best editors in the business.
How different will it be?
Funnily enough I've just seen a couple similar, in concept, titles in WH Smith. DSLR user and Digital Pro, both look nicely presented, but the content seemed very me too and conformist.
I'd love to see a monthly that puts the focus on images and doesn't have boring reviews and repetitive technique sections just a variety of great images from reportage to landscapes. Basically a magazine like 'Photography' was back in the late 80's
Being bright and relatively different for a dozen or so months should be no problem. Please don't let it slip too much into a repeating cycle of the same 'bright and relatively different'.
I'll give it a try... I have a stack of PPs and more recent PMs that cover the same stuff, such as the autumn issues...At the moment only Outdoor Photography is different and I think that magazine has done well to survive given how quickly Photo Technique disappeared....
Good luck Dan. Fingers crossed for a feature on the Pentax K10D.
Hi everyone, thanks for your comments, makes for very interesting reading. Welshwizard, we'll be reviewing the K10D as soon as it arrives, currently we're being told review samples hit the UK shores in November. I've handled it in Photokina & was very impressed, build quality was excellent & it's packed with features. It's certainly looking to be the best SLR Pentax has released for many years.
Bring back 'Camera & Creative Photography' from the 80's
Since their demise I tend to stick to Zoom and Photo Italia or Photo USA. Most UK magazines tend to be adverts or tests on equipment I don't need - although will want deperately after reading the write up!
There are plenty of magazines with adverts or equipment write ups.
Dan (and all other editors): please don't assume that all snappers use CS2! As an Elements(4) user, I am constantly cheesed off with the seemingly automatic assumption from many mags. that everyone uses CS2, when Elements is more than good enough for the majority of us - particularly with the curves and layer mask plug-ins freely available.
I've bought the camera that will have to last me for a good few years, but reviews on lenses and other equipment, are what many DSLR users want. Other mags seem to carry too much stuff about compact/point & shoots which is not of interest if you are a DSLR user. Lot's of technique and how to get the best from your camera. After all everyone wants to improve. Good luck
It would be nice for one of the photo mags to do an article on railway photography and tips on getting good shots.
I agree the magazines are too similar.
Good luck with the new magazine.
Good luck with the new publication Dan.
I agree with most here that the current crop of mags are repetative but I feel there is only so many topics to cover, ie the seasons, landscape, macro, flash, wildlife, portrature etc, and its because of this that the topics are cover in cyclonic form. It was the same witht the golfing mags when I played golf, there is only so much you can write about "putting"
I look forward to the 14th.
I would support tirnanogs' comments about not everyone using CS2. Indeed, not everyone uses that or Elements either. There are other photo-editing software products out there but little comment is made about them, for example, Corel Paint Shop Pro, or Serif's PhotoPlus 10. Has anyone produced a comparative list/article/etc about how to accomplish different tasks in different programmes?
Please don't fall into the same old ways of PP and PM. They are very formulaic, producing the same tired old stuff year after year -- it's Oct so it's autumn landscapes or let's have the "moody mono" issue.
At the moment only B&W Photography and Outdoor Photography are breaking the mould.
Also, will you be going back to the soft porn covers of the early PMs?
Sorry missed this on the news :o( I hope I'm not to late in adding my good wishes....off to WHSmiths in morning 
Good luck
Angie x
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