BEST BUY: Mamiya C330 with 80mm and 135mm lenses, £340 from eBay I liked the idea of a TLR as they look quite distinctive and offer more control than the simple box cameras we had in the house. A bit of research suggested the Mamiya C330 was a good o

About Chester Excel trainer and YouTuber Chester particularly enjoys shooting landscapes in his local area. You can see more of his work at www.chestertugwell.com and on Instagram @chestertugwell Favourite subjects Landscapes. I live in a very rur

Should you buy a new compact point-and-shoot camera, or go for a secondhand model? If you’ve been on TikTok, Instagram, Etsy, or eBay recently, and seen any content on compact digital cameras, you might have come across this term: ‘Y2K Camera’ / ‘Y2K

As I ventured into my photography career some years back, transitioning from film to digital, I looked for a camera that could replicate the nostalgic allure of film but in a digital landscape. Fujifilm’s X100 series, particularly the F model, became

As American photographer Peter van Agtmael (born 1981) explains: ‘There’s something that’s inherently awkward about the interview process and being asked the questions and talking the whole time. ‘I always feel awkward, like shit, am I talking too mu

DJI Mini 3 Pro, 1/1600sec at f/1.7, ISO 100 ‘I took this picture at Seaton Beach in Cornwall. The surf was clean, the sun shiny and the colours popping in those wave textures. Us surfers always say a wave is good if you are in the shade of the wave a

As a photographer my phone is important to me. It’s nowhere near replacing my mirrorless cameras or DSLRs, but there are many cases when it is my camera. I’ve had images taken on phone that have been published in the UK press, so it’s important that

As a trainee Scuba diver in the 1970s, I often hankered after a waterproof camera to record my adventures, first in cold winter swimming pools and later in even colder open water dives around the British and Norwegian coasts. I had all sorts of ideas

Incredibly, despite mirrorless cameras from Panasonic, Samsung and Sony, and DSLRs such as the Canon EOS 60D, Nikon D7000, Pentax K-5 and Sigma SD1 being announced at Photokina 2010, the largest photographic trade show at the time, it was a compact c

The Huion Kamvas Pro 16 2.5K is what’s known as a Pen Display. Rather than it being a blank tablet that detects your pen motions and transfers them, like a mouse, to the screen of your computer, a pen display actually shows your working window, so yo

THIS dramatic picture of a tiger in the act of pouncing, taken by Anirudh Vanimisetty, is amongst the winners of a competition to secure a place in Remembering Tigers, the latest book in the Remembering Wildlife series. There are only around 5,500 ti

● £70 ● www.shiftcam.com There’s no denying that the latest smartphones are genuinely useful photographic tools, which are often capable of doing things that conventional cameras cannot. But even the best of them are a horrible shape to shoot with. E

Video in consumer cameras had well and truly come of age. A decade ago 4K capture was the talk of the town, but now top-end cameras can shoot in 8K, and the used camera market is awash with affordable 4K cameras. There has never been a better time to

Best known for his images of urban scenes in the city of Leeds, Peter Mitchell is a chronicler of a now largely-vanished world. Many of his images record buildings that had been part of the local scene for decades and were about to be demolished and

GuruShots, the organisers of the world’s greatest photography games and communities, recently challenged its users to send in their best images on the theme of Tell a Story. Amateur Photographer is partnering with GuruShots and we are now pleased to

RECENTLY we described DxO Labs as ‘ever industrious’ and the firm has been hard at it again, releasing the latest Nik Collection, version 7. Nik Collection includes Silver Efex, still regarded as the gold standard for black & white editing by many, a

£70, Nazraeli Press, hardback, 104 pages, ISBN 978-1-59005-595-3 For Todd Hido, ‘Photography is a medium that tells us the truth, but, like memory, some parts are fuzzy and some parts are sharp.’ Based in the San Francisco Bay area, the 55-year-old p