2001 - 2018

Staff · Issue 100, Jan/Feb 2018 · pp. 4–12

Products mentioned: Polycarbonate injection-moulded housings, Manual White Balance (MWB), Magic Filter, Nikonos V, Canon DSLR (early model)

As is usual with milestones, they present an excuse to stop the clock for a while and look back at what has happened since said milestone began. UwP’s was August 2001 when I was financed by the then Ocean Optics to produce a one off bumped up newsletter harnessing the cost control of desktop publishing, the print free downloadable PDF format and free distribution via the internet. In hindsight, it was the perfect time to start and, as history has since proved, UwP was the very first downloadable PDF magazine designed to look like the conventionally produced product it was replacing. What was also perfect timing was that it was the time of transition from film to digital photography. The first issue of UwP was a mixture of both; early compact digital cameras had basic sensors, limited capacity memory cards and power hungry electronics. The first very basic DSLR from Canon wasn’t due to ar…