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08/01/2026

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10/12/2025

A pre-Christmas discount!

Life through the Lens of John Henshall

11/04/2025

Buy subscriptions and issues of f2 Cameracraft - March/April 2025. Available on Desktop PC or Mac and iOS or Android mobile devices.

03/03/2025

Do you want to get a meaningful sub-1000 run postal mailer out at the lowest possible cost? I can help! I have just reformatted a 48-page A4 magazine to squish it down to 48 pages A5 landscape, retaining exactly the same typesetting (size, column widths, leading) with smaller images and headlines, and some essential cutting where the original A4 pages were already dense and complex. That turned out to be my own tech tests.

Saving? 48pp A5 115gsm self cover with a white C5 mailing envelope comes in at under 100g (only a few grams to spare). UK or USA or anywhere, it's the lowest available post tarriff, and combined with lower print cost, saves 60% compared to A4. Savings for 1000+ mailing are even higher using Subscription, Publishing or Marketing options, and I'm able to advise publishers or commercial firms on internal content and format to qualify for the best terms and prices.

My own reformatting and squish-down was done in a long day's work, it would take more time working on unfamiliar content and liaising with an editor or publisher, I'd say up to a working week.

I can send, by email or WeTransfer, a PDF of the original Cameracraft March/April A4 magazine and one of the A5 rework to anyone interested in getting this done. Contact me here to take it further.

30/08/2024

Cameracraft Magazine Sept/Oct issue first one rushed to me by printers Stephens & George!

27/08/2024

"NEXT" pay ruling tpday - 50 years ago Shirley was the only female shop employee of Dixons selling cameras and TVs etc - all the other women/girls across the country were either not classed as counter sales team members even if they did assist customers (a male assistant had to complete the sale) or only had backroom jobs. She was a very competent photographer and the manager of the branch on The Moor, Sheffield, hired her as a camera salesperson (she had little to do with hifi and TV). She did very well and often earned more than I did as a newspaper trainee. But she was still paid less then her male colleagues, even though she shared all the work. The shop staff decided to threaten industrial action (exactly what I'm not sure) and supported her claim to equal pay. The national management rested their case on her inability as a woman to lift and handle then large packages of stock which had to be offloaded. These were taken to a first floor store-room and for speed, the staff formed a chain and passed (almost threw, but not as this was precision equipment) boxes up the stairs without them touching the ground or anyone having to lug them up stairs and then go back down. It was a quick employee-invented solution. When the management visited to review Shirley's claim that women should be equally paid, she took her place in chain to prove that a girlie could indeed heft 25 kilo boxes on a hand to hand chain.

She got her equal pay and so did all Dixons female shop counter sales staff from then on. She also learned a lot from experienced staff there like Fred (the most senior or longest-serving) and enjoyed working with contemporary young staff like Ian Chapman, though she didn't work there for very long. The customer she remembered best for his charm - and for making a beeline for the glamorous girl salesperson - was Freddie "Ate My Hamster" Starr, who she said was the politest entertainer she ever met (and we knew a good many) and unlike many didn't try to hit on her.

I do not know whether this Dixons initiative lasted, but in 1981 when she became co director of the Minolta Club of Great Britain with me, she peraused Minolta UK to offer a place on our one-week photo training holiday in Tunisia as a prize for the best Dixons counter staff Minolta sales record of the season. I've forgotten the young salesman's name but he was a real photo enthusiast and a good addition to our mixed party of old and young, male and female, beginner to expert tourists.

31/03/2023

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01/07/2021

The latest edition of Cameracraft magazine is now in the post - and already being delivered digitally by Pocketmags. It's the lowest cost way to get the magazine –

Buy subscriptions and issues of f2 Cameracraft - July/August 2021. Available on Desktop PC or Mac and iOS or Android mobile devices.

25/04/2021

Deadline Tuesday morning to get this offer - latest three back issues free when you subscribe or revive your lapsed subscription!

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09/06/2020

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Our first issue in splendid isolation! From the cover by Deanne Ward which is so appropriate to our locked down status at the time, and the hope of moving ahead, to the contents which really covers a lot to do with what's been happening and much more. It's free to read so read it all the way through...