Amateur Photographer 22 June 2013

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Richard Sibley explains how to photograph Britain's wild flowers and talks to fine-art photographer David Price about his striking flower images

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News
Leica X Vario compact with fixed zoom ends 'Mini M' mystery; Canon launches 18-35mm EOS M lens; Pentax unveils two 16-million-pixel DSLRs; National Media Museum in Bradford faces possible closure; Fujifilm to halve compact camera line-up

Review
The latest books, exhibitions and websites

The final frame
When fine-art and photographic prints can be mass produced at the touch of a button, what does it mean for the 'value' of our images? Roger Hicks investigates

Photo insight
Tasking himself with photographing 'something invisible', David Ward made a trip to one of his favourite locations in the Scottish Highlands and took an image of a Scots pine

How to shoot… wild flowers
Richard Sibley explains how to photograph Britain's wild flowers and talks to fine-art photographer David Price about his striking flower images

Leica X Vario
Richard Sibley takes a hands-on look at Leica’s new 16.1-million-pixel 'Mini M' compact camera

Testbench: six of the best
Jon Stapley rounds up six of the best sling backpacks for travelling photographers

Ricoh GR
Richard Sibley finds out whether the Ricoh GR's 16.2-million-pixel, APS-C-sized sensor in the tried-and-tested Ricoh GRD body – not to mention its £600 price tag – could give the Nikon Coolpix A and Fujifilm X100S a run for their money

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Our experts answer your questions

Panasonic Lumix DMC-XS1
With compact cameras often too big to be pocketable, and sensor and lens technology inside smartphones limited, Callum McInerney-Riley considers whether the Panasonic Lumix DMC-XS1 has struck a happy medium

Letters
AP readers speak out on the week's issues

Backchat
AP reader Simon Matthews is exasperated by the submission requirements of photo libraries

Reader spotlight
Another selection of superb reader images

Getting the scoop
A job taking pictures for Getty Images involves far-flung places and famous faces, and there's nowhere that Dan Kitwood would rather be. He talks to Jon Stapley

The sum of its parts
'Teardown' photographer Todd McLellan discusses the painstaking process behind his images of disassembled classic designs. He talks to Jon Stapley

Icons of photography
Philippe Halsman's powerful 1947 portrait captures Albert Einstein as he reflects on his life's work, writes David Clark

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