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Hi all,
Just thought I'd put a message on to say that in trying to find a copy of Digital SLR Photography as mentioned on this site a number of times and accidently stumbled on another brand new photography mag with a very similar name thinking that this was the mag I wanted..
Digital SLR User. Possibly the worst photography mag I've ever bought. I won't be making that mistake again.
As anyone else seen this dire excuse of a magazine?
I near did the same thing, too many mags with almost the same name and even the same sort of cover...
I got the with with the article on Analise, which I thought was great. Found it was a good enough read...and loved that it wasnt 6 quid with a CD/DVD that ends up a coffee coaster.
Tommy
I bought "Digital SLR User" last Saturday thinking it was the one by Daniel Lezano, can't comment on it yet as I haven't read it.
I didn't realise there were 2 mags with very similar names on the shelves, I checked the issue number and saw it was only the second issue so I assumed it was the one I was after as I knew that Daniel's one had just recently started, bet it's happened to loads of people, I'll be more careful next time though.
Sorry Dan, your sales are one copy down now through my silly mistake, I'll get next month's though :o(
Geoff.
Hmmm - another magazine in an overfished pond.
Surely it cant tell us anything that What Digital Camera, Digital Photography, et al hasnt already told us? The content of all these photo mags is basically the same - nice pretty pictures, readers portfolos and critique, tests, news and technique. And we the the hardy annuals - snow, autumn, Bonfire night, holidays - it's so boring.
It's getting as bad as the railway and aircraft periodical markets. Another overfished market.
Having the launch issue of both I don't see much difference, both going for a slice of the same pie, though the portrait lighting tutorial in DSLR Photography is better. I think Digital Photographer is still slightly ahead of the pack though I'd prefer if they ditched the disk and reduced the cover price.
There were 3 new digital camera mags released over the last month or so. Surely there can't be space for all of them in the market. I know the DSLR market has increased a lot, but not enough to justify this kind of increase in publications. And all the mags, not just the new ones, are aimed at the DSLR user btw.
They must have all had the same market analysts telling them to start a mag at the same time. 
They are all so similar, as to give me trouble remembering their names.
But I think they are:
Digital SLR User
Digital SLR Photography
Digital Photo Pro
I hope the journalists on these mags are pro photographers, because they may not have a long term career with these mags. lol
Well I've been heavily involved in the Newcastle art tour this weekend and Digital SLR Photography were kind enough to send us a 1000 copies to distribute as part of the promo.
Most people who flicked through the publication were impressed and I had the time to discuss in a little bit of detail some of the product and articles within the publication.
So on the last two days basis it seems the publication will be well received. Oh and on top of that the UK should sell 4000 digitl SLR's a day on the run up to xmas ... the UK has gone digital SLR mad !!!
Dan
It is a lot ... but already stores are doing around 1000 digital SLR's a day ... and thats currently!
Dan
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