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| Publisher: Source Interlink
Category: Magazine
List Price: $47.88
Buy New: $12.00
You Save: $35.88 (75%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 46
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00007B1I4
Release Date: November 23, 2001
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
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| Customer Reviews:
 Cheerleading reviews, mediocre articles August 14, 2007
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
In many respects, Shutterbug is the mirror image of Popular Photography & Imaging. The strength of Popular Photography is its quantitative product reviews. Shutterbug does little if any measuring when they review a product. Further, I have never once seen a review in Shutterbug that was anything less than gushing. The writer will go on and on about the strength of the product and never compare it critically to other similar products on the market. I realize that magazines are reluctant to offend potential advertisers but some shred of integrity toward readers would be greatly appreciated.
The relative strength of Shutterbug is reflected in more general articles regarding photographic technique. This is the area that Popular Photography badly stumbles and this magazine definitely manages to perform at a higher level of competence. Unfortunately, these articles are still pretty basic and repetitive. Any decent entry level book on photography would contain 99% of the advice you'll ever find in Shutterbug. So while the articles are better than the reviews, it's hard to say that they alone make it worth the price of a subscription. In the final analysis, I can't recommend Shutterbug to eithe beginners or advanced photographers.
UPDATE: Shortly after posting this review, I flipped through an issue of Shutterbug at a local store. It looks like there has been a change in editorial policy as a product review took the tone of a true critique rather than being a puff piece as they so often did in the past. There still wasn't quite as much meat as I would have liked but this is definitely a step in the right direction for the magazine. Amazon does not allow reviewers to alter the number of starts given once a review is published or I would probably bump Shutterbug up a notch to 3 stars. It still is far from great, but I appreciate the fact that they've improved a bit.
 Shutterbug full of ads April 23, 2007
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
I recieved my first issue of Shutterbug after about 7 weeks from ordering it. I was disappointed in the mag. as almost all of it is ads, ads and more ads. As far as I'm concerned it should be given away for all the advertising they recieve in it. The articles they had in this issue were about very high end equipment that 99% of the readers would not be able to afford or use. Most of the ads do not even contain prices for the products, making them useless for shopping and comparing anyway. I did like the low price that amazon had for Shutterbug though, I would have really been mad if I had paid cover prices for it.
 Better then Popular Photography April 19, 2007
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
Shutterbug seems to have the meat still there with good articles and information - not necessarily highly technical, but not the National Enquirer of the photo magazines.
Popular Photography, after being a reader for over 25 years seems to have lost its way since it added "...and Imaging" to its title. It seems that in its exclamations of products there is seldom a negative word.
 Photographers Best Friend March 23, 2007
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Very comprehensive magazine..covers all phases of photography without leaning on any one too heavily ....with one major exception... DIGITAL photography and rightfully should be more emphasized, regardless of what the olde "film diehards" have to say......(and I was one of them.... until I saw "the light"}. Frank
Excellent, well-rounded magazine January 19, 2007
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
Shutterbug is an excellent magazine with good coverage on a wide variety of topics aimed at the average "prosumer". The magazine is jammed with more articles and reviews than most other popular magazines.
It doesn't cater to the artsy snob crowd, so if you're looking for photography that requires you to have a finicky ego, you're probably better off looking elsewheres.
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