Amateur Photographer Magazine

Zoom is very bad

I love AP and have read it on and off for years. But the present is this app does not do it justice. The whole point of a photographic magazine is the presentation of great images. It is impossible to look at this images properly especially when they are a double page spread. Other apps do this better (see the Sunday Times) - click on the image and it goes to full screen.

The general presentation is excellent, however there are a couple of really irritating bugs. Page six always opens blurred for some bizarre reason. You have to swipe past it and then back again to get it sharp. The library page always opens in portrait orientation, even if your device in in landscape, so you always have to pick it up and twirl it around to get it in landscape. Not a biggy, but after several months of doing it, you’d be amazed just how irritating it can become.

The magazine is great and extremely informative, nonetheless I would love to see more how to and top tips.

'Requirers iOS 11.2 or later'; I'm stuck with iOS10. Given you are not displaying the latest issues on the old app I guess you don't want to sell any more. Actually I haven't bought a single e-magazine on this paper-weight since that awful rubbish piece of software the publishers fobbed us off with a couple of years ago. At least a paper mag remains mine. Q Magazine seems to have gone down the tubes, who next I wonder. As far as elppA is concerned it only takes one cook to spoil the broth. Old-school coder.

The new version doesn’t allow you to zoom into a double page spread, so photos spanning two pages can’t be enlarged as one. Touching the page brings up a navigator bar which is quite annoying. Latest edition is not visible. Avoid.

This is review of the application, not the magazine, which remains the best photography magazine available by a long way. I returned to the tablet version after already having abandoned it once before. I wanted to save paper and i hoped it had improved. It hadn't. Regularly fails to load, and most irritatingly, even when moving away from it for a very short while (e.g. to look at a referenced Instagram account) it invariably returns to the cover page. Surely it is possible to retain the user's current page. Sadly I have an annual subscription but will be seeking a refund shortly, so I can return to the reliable paper copy.

I have read Amateur photographer for several decades. As I travel a lot, I buy at stores rather than have a subscription; that way I am up to date and don’t have to wait a month or three until I get home. But Covid 19 has made it difficult and dangerous for someone of my age to go into newsagents or paper shops. So I decided to buy editions to read on my iPad until the lock down is ended and it is safe to return to normal shopping. Wonderful to be able to read my favourite magazine. As I read my daily papers on-line, I am used to used a screen and this is the perfect answer. Sign up, fellow photographers. That way you will not miss out on a great magazine.

Great info weekly and useful news A magazine which I have read for nearly 40 years

Praise where praise is due. I hated the previous version of this app but this iteration is a huge improvement. It is now a real pleasure to use. It fits the screen properly and I like the way you can move across the page and appreciate a double spread. Well done guys.