Photography Magazines - Recommendations?

DoN. Nichols wrote:

According to Steve Franklin :

With the timeliness of the internet, and the myriad resources for
free, of what value are magazines, except to sell product for their
advertisers?
-Rich


For once Rich - I couldn't agree more.

I think the publishing world as we knew it is gone.

I think the internet is killing magazines and the falling circulation makes
the magazines more expensive to buy which in turn makes the internet even
more attractive.

I know a few aussies use this NG, have you checked out the cost of some of
your fav mags now? They're like $20 -$30. Why would you spend that much
money for a decent RAW article say, when you could just go to a NG like this
or google for everything you would ever need...


Only one problem -- Newsgroups are getting harder to access.
First, AOL drops all newsgroups. I believe that MSN has also dropped
news support, though I am not sure. More recently, my ISP cut off all
newsfeeds to private news servers (such as mine), and a week later they
shut down the news server which allowed access to the newsgroups. (They
have been bought by another, larger, ISP.) Contact to the larger ISP's
help desk showed that they did have a news server, but they would not
open access to me, as they were planning to shut that one down within a
week as well.

So -- for the moment, I am using newsguy, while transitioning
to a different ISP (at a significant savings, BTW), which will allow me
a newsfeed again.


I think their days are numbered....well certainly only the fittest will
survive....


But the days of newsgroups may well be numbered as well. And
without them, you would have to depend on search engines (and knowing
what to search for) to locate the necessary websites. An example of
something which I discovered via this newsgroup was the DCRAW software,
which lets me process raw files from both the D70 and my older NC2000e/c
(Nikon N90s film camera converted to digital by Kodak for the AP),
without having to use a Windows machine or a Mac.

Enjoy,
DoN.

Supernews is still around & cheap if you don't do a lot of binary
groups. I've got a news server with my current ISP, but I still keep
Supernews as a backup for when I travel (any motel with free internet, I
can still get my newsgroups).