Cameracraft magazine – Taking your practical photography further

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Magazines and periodicals from Icon Publications

  • Cameracraft Magazine May/June 2026

    Cameracraft Magazine May/June 2026

    Cameracraft Issue 70 is now free to read in low-resolution page turn here!

    • The Photography & Video Show 2026 – what you missed
    • Documentary photography from Tom Hill (and Philip Larkin)
    • Iran’s True Colours – NatGeo contributor Nevada Wier

    The May/June 2026 of Cameracraft is now live, and you can read it free here – subscribers get high-resolution PDFs…

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    Subscriptions guarantee early access, and let us keep the website uncluttered with minimal advertising. It costs just £15 a year, and you get unrestricted downloadable 300dpi files which can be viewed as spread and which print really well, if you want to keep selected pages or articles that way, using printers such as the Epson ET-8550 in our office. It was bought when these were brand new on the market and at the time of writing is still on the original inks, just coming up to refill the Grey and the others still about one-third full.

    You get the issue download link sent in an email on or just before the 1st of month (Jan, Mar, May, July, Sept, Nov) – and it lets us keep publishing interviews, profiles, advice, tests, guides and more without the intrusive and irrelevant adverts, incessant video and paywalls that blight modern publishing.

  • Cameracraft Magazine March/April 2026

    Cameracraft Magazine March/April 2026

    Cameracraft Issue 69 is now free to read in low resolution page turn here!

    • AI enhancement explored – Gary Friedman stares into the face of generative portraiture
    • Lifting the Iron (shutter) Curtain – Zeiss Werra 3 and Zorki 4 before they were retro
    • Is it cheaper to adapt a Sony lens than buy a Nikon equivalent? Viltrox EZ adaptor tested

    In this issue – Tom Hill explains how going back to college changed his photography, David Tymm shows how amazing an iPhone and a big bike can be for an epic US road trip, Nigel Thomas on his favourite ends of the day and night, and Colin McPherson catches a Kickstarter tide.

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    We test the Viltrox E to Z fully coupled adaptor which lets you use all your Sony lenses on a Nikon Z body, puzzle over the good points of the ‘not really hybrid at all’ Yashica FX-D 100, check out the ReflectionFrame which uses e-ink to display a changeable picture for months, reminisce with the Zeiss Werra 3 and Zorki 4 from back in the heyday of Iron Curtain cameras.

    Plus, Gary Friedman continues his exploration of AI enhancement for portraits, and we introduce our first crossword – one which uses picture clues!

    Subscriptions guarantee early access, and let us keep the website uncluttered with minimal advertising. It costs just £15 a year, and you get unrestricted downloadable 300dpi files which can be viewed as spreads and which print really well, if you want to keep selected pages or articles that way, using printers such as the Epson ET-8550 in our office*.

    You get the issue download link sent in an email on or just before the 1st of month (Jan, Mar, May, July, Sept, Nov).

    * It was bought when these were brand new on the market. We have just refilled GY (grey) which is the most used ink. The print count, which includes A3+ colour like the Landor Phototex adhesive fabric decor we tested in September/October 2025, was 141 black and white and 1081 colour. The remaining Black, Photo Black, C, Y and M are all more than 1/3rd full and the maintenance cartridge is less than 1/3rd used so running costs look very reasonable.

  • Cameracraft Magazine Jan/Feb 2026

    Cameracraft Magazine Jan/Feb 2026

    Cameracraft Issue 68 is now free to read in low-resolution page turn here!

    • Fashion photography with Paolo Prisco
    • Top of the Pops: John Henshall’s TV tips and tales from behind the camera
    • Tested: Leica M EV1, Fujifilm X-E5, Fujifilm X Half

    In this issue – Dynamic fashion from Paolo Prisco, freezing winter waters from David Forster, bursts of light and inspiration from TV camera and lighting professional turned digital expert John Henshall. Reviews of the Leica M EV1, Fujifilm X-E5 with 23mm f/2.8, Fujifilm X Half, Newyi 50mm f/1.1 M lens, and vintage Olympus Pen half-framers from 60 years ago.

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    Plus, Gary Friedman’s AI recreation of impossible family photos uniting generations, and Tom Hill’s take on street photography ethics.

    Subscriptions guarantee early access, and let us keep the website uncluttered with minimal advertising. It costs just £15 a year, and you get unrestricted downloadable 300dpi files which can be viewed as spreads and which print really well, if you want to keep selected pages or articles that way, using printers such as the Epson ET-8550 in our office. It was bought when these were brand new on the market and at the time of writing is still on the original inks, just coming up to refill the Grey and the others still about one-third full.

    You get the issue download link sent in an email on or just before the 1st of month (Jan, Mar, May, July, Sept, Nov) – and it lets us keep publishing interviews, profiles, advice, tests, guides and more without the intrusive and irrelevant adverts, incessant video and paywalls that blight modern publishing.

  • Print on demand copies – and full year annual books for 2024 and 2023

    From the May/June 2025 edition, Cameracraft has been published as a PDF download or on-line read… but we know our readers love the printed page. So we have created digitally printed copies you can order – and complete 288-page softback volumes of the 2024 and 2023 editions, ideal for your bookcase (earlier years will follow as time permits).

    To order July/August direct from Mixam UK for £10 –
    https://mixam.co.uk/print-on-demand/6863c2041332633f0ee09896

    To order May/June direct from Mixam UK for £10 –
    https://mixam.co.uk/print-on-demand/681ca808570356078a11f83e

    To order the 2024 compendium from Mixam UK for £38.25 –
    https://mixam.co.uk/print-on-demand/6810cb2c99bd0a1048168b6c

    To order the 2023 compendium (new – published July 2025) from Mixam UK for £38.25
    https://mixam.co.uk/print-on-demand/68659a16f15a7219262edb00

    USA ordering:
    To order July/August direct from Mixam Inc. for $9
    https://mixam.com/print-on-demand/686537b7f15a7219262ed10d

    To order May/June direct from Mixam Inc. for $9 –
    https://mixam.com/print-on-demand/68306def1958e22f79e919c3

    To order the 2024 compendium from Mixam Inc. for $63 –
    https://mixam.com/print-on-demand/68306ea94a123a1128467d69

  • Sony A7RIII review in Cameracraft

    Read David Kilpatrick’s review of the Sony A7RIII

    Cameracraft January/February started the A7RIII test report, and March/April 2018 continued it. Both are free to read here. In the second issue you’ll also find the review of the 24-105mm f/4 FE G OSS lens. In the first issue, Gary Friedman looks at the RX10 series and one-inch sensor quality as well – and David tests the Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 Aspherical FE manual focus lens, Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DN DC, and Samyang 35mm f/2.8 AF FE.

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    Part 2

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  • Paperback edition of Photoworld 2008-11

    We have decided to make a Lulu print-on-demand digitally produced paperback edition covering the last three years of Photoworld magazine, covering the period from the launch of Alpha 900 and photokina 2008, through to the final edition of our quarterly magazine in Summer 2011, when the Alpha 77 was about to hit the streets.

    This 312-page book includes the content of 12 editions of Photoworld, each with its cover and contents page, with some advertising and some regular content or ‘diary dates’ removed. A few items like this remain in place, notably Sigma advertisements, because the alternative would be to pay for a blank white page – or they are small ads and part of a larger page layout. We think even these are still of interest for the future.

    Some typos and errors have been corrected so this book has more accurate versions of many articles. Some content has been changed, such as the A2 foldout print included in the Autumn 2008 edition to show the quality of the A900 24 megapixel file. As far as we know, Icon Publications Ltd remains the only photo magazine publisher to use the option of a ‘centerfold’. We’ve done it in our professional titles as well, to show medium format quality at its best. But in a digitally printed book, it’s not possible to staple in a 16.5 x 23.75 inch poster. Instead, we’ve used a different choice of a spread and two full page images.

    Through this book-form edition, you can track the birth of the NEX system and the death of the optical viewfinder.

    If you can not see the Flash preview above, use this link: http://www.lulu.com/shop/david-kilpatrick/photoworld-2010-11/paperback/product-20477114.html?showPreview=true The book costs £64.50 - the original three years of magazines would have cost £53.85 absolute minimum (UK annually renewing subscription) and a typical binder costs £10. However, for worldwide customers the overall cost of the magazines over three years plus a binder would have been £90. Digital printing is expensive and we don't make much on these, but we've had Lulu print calendars in the past (2011) with super results and this should be a very good quality book, fairly matching the original litho magazines. - David Kilpatrick

  • Summer Photoworld – our final quarterly

    The Summer edition of Photoworld magazine is now available on-line in two forms – through our YUDU subscription, and through the Photoclubalpha website membership subscription. This will be our last quarterly, as over the last few years the website had taken over as a more practical vehicle for news and comment.

    In place of the quarterly, our printed edition subscribers will receive in summer 2012 the first ALPHA ANNUAL, with 100+ pages and superior production quality. It will showcase good and innovative work and provide a summary of developments in the Alpha system, along with other features, just as MINOLTA MIRROR once did for Minolta owners.

    To read (subscrition required) the on-line YUDU page turn version:

    Just follow the instructions above!
    To download a simple PDF which can be copied to your iTunes Bookstore for iPad reading, or transferred to any suitable eBook, Android tablet, PC, Mac, Unix netbook or similar PDF-compatible device, you will need to be a subscriber to this website (a member), and use this link – Subscription Content. All our back issues are also provided to subscribers.