Photography Magazine Subscriptions

Do any of you subscribe to a certain photography magazine, and if so...why?

I suscribe to rangefinder (free), aftercapture (free), and professional photographer (was free for 6 months, but liked it so will start paying).

Rangefinder and aftercapture here as well.

But I also get Popular photography and Shutterbug. But only because I got lucky and found a limited link and got the subscriptions so cheap. I think it was like $12 for a year for both.

However the mags I really like are all UK mags. I dont subscribe as they offer no discount for the subscription so I just get them every month at Boarders.

I don't subsribe to much anymore. I get Photoshop User (via NAPP membership), PDN and a couple of others that come from membership in professional organizations. I will counter buy ones that seem like they have a story that would interest me.

This is a question that comes up fairly often. A few older threads....

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=632792
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=600311
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=525777
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=493535

I used to have a subscription to Digital Photo magazine (expired this month). I had read it for about 9 months prior to the subscription but i have found that a lot of the subject matter is repeated on a fairly regular basis.

One thing i did like though was the subscription gift- i ended up getting a fairly nice Kata camera bag (with waterproof cover) thrown in at no cost. Given the bag would normally be £40-50 (based on other Kata bags), i reckoned it was a great deal as the subscription only cost £60.

I get Aftercapture and Rangefinder both for free.

I find Aftercapture a boring publication most issues and Rangefinder to have decently written indepth articles with good photos in it

I subscribed to a few in the beginning, but let the subscriptions expire when I wasn't getting enough new information anymore. The only ones I still get, and find useful, are Photoshop User and Layers as a member of NAPP. These are post processing magazines though, not photography per se.

I got a really cheap offer on Outdoor Photographer - something like $4 for a year.

Waste of money. Every issue is just like the last.

-js

shutterbug because it has good deals on cameras but the same deals in every mag

The problem with most photography magazines is that the content repeats over and over and over. In the beginning I subscribed to Popular Photography, Photographic, and Shutterbug when it was in it's large newsprint format. I let those go when they started getting repetitious and became more and more of a shill for the manufacturers. I currently subscribe to Outdoor Photographer but even that is getting read less and less and I'm considering not renewing when it runs out.