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Starting June, Digital Camera Buyer magazine will be sold under the title Digital Camera Essentials. The renamed magazine features the same in-depth reviews, hands-on group tests and 25-page buyers’ guide it has become famous for, but also now incorporates a large photo techniques section and editing tutorial. Along with the new name and a new look for the magazine, June will also see the launch of a new subscriptions offer for Digital Camera Essentials.
Imagine Publishing Press Release
Digital Camera Buyer magazine becomes Essentials from June
Long-running photography buyers’ guide magazine changes its name to reflect photographers’ desires to understand more about their kit
Launched in 2002, Digital Camera Buyer becomes Digital Camera Essentials from issue 85, on sale 11 June 2009. Aimed at first-time digital camera users as well as those looking to upgrade their current kit, Digital Camera Essentials is written by industry experts with an unrivalled knowledge and passion for photography.
Digital Camera Essentials features the same in-depth reviews, hands-on group tests and 25-page buyers’ guide it has become famous for, but also now incorporates a large photo techniques section, allowing readers to get the best buying advice, as well as discover how to use their new gear.
Editor in Chief of Imagine’s photographic division, Debbi Allen, said: “Digital Camera Essentials is aimed at the hobbyist photographer who’s looking to update their equipment and learn more about shooting techniques, from buying a new compact, bridge or DSLR, to taking the perfect shot and then editing it afterwards. It’s an exciting phase in the magazine’s development, and it has been designed to allow greater levels of interaction with readers and give them a complete view of each product from shop to shoot.”
For the first time ever, Digital Camera Essentials readers will also be able to subscribe to the magazine. “A new look deserved a brilliant new subscriptions offer,” explains Subscriptions Manager, Lucy Nash. “With all the outstanding features and developments it seemed like the perfect time to launch our new subscription programme for Digital Camera Essentials.”
Head of Sales, James Hanslip commented: “After seven successful years as Digital Camera Buyer, we felt the time was right to overhaul the magazine for the new generation of digital camera owners. Digital Camera Essentials will allow advertisers to reach a wider demographic of reader and get involved with more features and reviews.”
Imagine Publishing is one of the UK’s fastest-growing consumer specialist publishers. Formed in May 2005, Imagine now publishes 20 magazines and 27 websites in the videogames, computing, entertainment and photography markets. An Imagine magazine is purchased every ten seconds.
#1 Tony Boughen
"After seven successful years as Digital Camera Buyer, we felt the time was right to overhaul the magazine"
But not, apparently, by employing a sub-editor who can spell. "Tecniques"!? On the magazine cover!?
2:57 pm - Wednesday, May 27, 2009
#2 Tony Boughen
Now that was a quick change of cover!! My fee's in the post :-)
4:53 pm - Wednesday, May 27, 2009
#3 Stefan Carey
I think Digital Camera Essentials might be a magazine for me to avoid if what seems a jaundiced preview of the Pentax K-7 is any indication.
Has the editorial team let an anti-Pentax bias slip into the picture for this already internationally awarded camera?
I hope not.
10:28 am - Thursday, June 11, 2009
#4 D W Griffiths
Can I endorse Stefan Carey's polite comments regarding your magazine. They are better than you deserve.
Your piece on the Pentax K7 was a lazy exercise in cherry-picking from different cameras in order to damn with faint praise in the disguise of news. Dip your eyes for a moment and you will see that your prejudice is showing.
If the K7 is “half a step behind specs-wise” (behind what in its class by the way?) it makes me wonder how the likes of the mighty D50 will rate without auto-levelling/digital level function; in-camera HDR; in-camera shake reduction that can compensate for rotational as well as linear movement; full weather sealing; 30 fps video; cold-resistant as low as -10°C; and auto white balance that led one reviewer to write “I could kiss Pentax.” Never mind – the K7 is one frame per sec slower than the D50 - just hold on to that. Pitiful.
1:37 pm - Thursday, June 11, 2009
#5 Oliver
K-7 half a step behind??
The specs are insane, how can you justify saying this?
You are putting Pentax at a massive disadvantage by saying this, new people to digital photography will dismiss Pentax and buy into Canikon.
I get the feeling there is a large bias away from Pentax, it kinda shows, you haven't even tested it.
8:43 pm - Thursday, June 11, 2009
#6 Jon
Perhaps a fair and proper test of the K-7 may be the best way of settling this.
Early indications from others suggest that this may well be a landmark "system changing" camera - something that whoever wrote your first piece has utterly failed to comprehend. For once other manufacturers will need to catch up, and yet somehow you write a piece that suggests the K-7 is still behind. Very odd.
10:43 pm - Thursday, June 11, 2009
#7 artistcjconrad
Leave the polariser filter on the lens? May be you people need to educate yourselves a little bit about photography before giving advice to other people.
Did you people even touched the K-7 yet or know anything about it's full specs? I don't think so. If you did, then you people are shamelessly biased toward Pentax. Shame on you!!!
cj
2:05 am - Friday, June 12, 2009
#8 Solara
Quite the editorial letdown on your coverage of the Pentax k-7. Your knickers are showing.
6:54 pm - Friday, June 12, 2009
#9 Tim Meakin
Regarding
Imagine Publishing is one of the UK’s fastest-growing consumer specialist publishers. Formed in May 2005, Imagine now publishes 20 magazines and 27 websites in the videogames, computing, entertainment and photography markets. An Imagine magazine is purchased every ten seconds.
Yes - but are any worth reading ?
K-7 editorial wasn't
2:31 am - Saturday, June 13, 2009
#10 Tim Meakin
Regarding K-m review:
"The Pentax K-m (more logically called the Pentax K2000 in some parts of the world) is Pentax's brand new entry-level DSLR camera, slotting into the range underneath the K-m model."
So well put.
2:45 am - Saturday, June 13, 2009
#11 -byline-
Why are you guys addressing these remarks on DCE's K-7 editorial to PhotographyBLOG? They simply posted a news story on the renaming of an existing print magazine they are evidently not affiliated with. PBlog haven't even published a review of the K-7 yet!
If you have issues with Digital Camera Buyer / Digital Camera Essentials, why don't you let that magazine's editors know?
10:16 am - Monday, June 15, 2009
#12 Matt Tuffin
Thanks very much for your comments. As the Dep Ed of Digital Camera Essentials I appreciate any feedback, positive or otherwise, on the content of the magazine. As far as the piece on the K-7 is concerned the coverage was based purely on first impressions and the released specs. A full review will be featured in issue 87 of the magazine, which is released at the end of this month. I'd encourage any further comments to be placed onto our forum where I can respond to them directly and in a more timely fashion, which can be found on http://www.digicambuyer.co.uk.
Cheers,
Matt
2:12 pm - Friday, July 3, 2009