All you ever wanted to know about photography: £1.50

If you're reading this in the UK and it's still Saturday 27th October, you've got a few hours left to go out and grab a bargain. The Grauniad has a free 'guide to photography' supplement that's full of practical advice and inspiration on everything from choosing the right camera to how to shoot sports, weddings and still lifes.

Although it isn't entirely accurate - apparently film cameras 'don't rely on electricity', and a Canon flashgun is picked out as best buy without mentioning that to owners of any other dSLR brand it'll be about as much use as a chocolate teapot - it's one of the best round-ups of photographic technique and practice I've seen for a while. And it's only £1.50 (with a free copy of the newspaper thrown in. Wahey!). Portrait insights from Jane Bown, sports tips from Tom Jenkins and Eamonn McCabe, buying advice from Dan Chung... all working pros, and more than one a living legend.

What are you waiting for...?

Comments

[matt]

it also seems to be here
http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/guides/photography/0,,2192305,00.html

[pete]

the Grauniad?

[Mike Osborne]

While on the subject of photography in the media, there is the 'Genius of Photography' on BBC4 at various times next week. Saw it last week, quite a bit of photographic history in it, (reminded me of my 'A' level art), but on the whole pretty well done.

[Seb Rogers]

Thanks Matt. The link's in my orignal post too :) The online version lacks pictures, though, which seems to me to defeat some of the point.

Pete, Private Eye (a bi-weekly satirical news magazine, for those of you reading this outside the UK) nicknamed the Guardian 'Grauniad' in the 70s, I believe, because of its reputation for typos. The name's stuck, despite the fact that a Guardian typo these days is a relatively rare sight.

[Tom]

Although I spotted loads (ok 3) in the articles I actually read. Pretty big ones too where they lost parts of words and amalgamated them into other words.
Anyway that photography pamphlet looked good on a flick through.