Ivor Matanle's Bronica Bonanza article from
Amateur Photographer issue of 10 February 2001



[click on each article page above to see full sized image (~100kbytes each)]

Special thanks to Sam Sherman ([email protected]) for securing the kind permission of the author, Ivor Matanle,
and of the publisher - Amateur Photographer to post and share this article here! We also greatly appreciate Mr. Ivor Matanle's
efforts to provide us (via Mr. Sam Sherman) with the article itself for posting.

Mr. Ivor Matanle will be well known to many camera fan(atics) who have enjoyed his books (such as Collecting and Using Classic Cameras and Collecting and Using Classic Slrs) and many camera and photography related articles in sundry magazines - including Amateur Photographer! As Sam Sherman noted - "I think Ivor did quite a job with it and this is further amazing to see these old classic Bronicas of ours featured as the major piece in a big international photography magazine (plus the major cover piece)- without any current advertising to support this story. And, the story is a big one on many pages!

Readers in the USA may sometimes be able to purchase copies of Amateur Photographer magazine at some of the better newsstands and bookstores such as Barnes and Nobles and Borders Bookstore. As you can probably gather from this sample article by Mr. Matanle, the content, depth of coverage, and quality of the writing and photography ensures that the few weekly copies of Amateur Photographer received at your local source will soon be sold out. So we are providing subscription information below for those wanting a more reliable source of supply for this unique photographic resource and publication.

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n.b. Technical Notes: I have resized these pages to fit a standard 640 width screen and to keep them circa one megabyte total download size (from 3.6 megabyte originals). Thanks to Sam Sherman, the original pages were darkened in Photoshop to make the text darker and easier to read. As a side effect, the photos are a good bit darker here than in the originals. So if you want to get the full "flavor" of the original images, you will simply have to access the original magazine pages!