WE ARE sad to report that Ivor Matanle, a regular contributor to AP for many years, died in January. Ivor was an expert on owning and using classic cameras, and had a strong following among readers. ‘His books and articles will live on... I bought my second Leica IIIf from him in January 1977,' said reader David Loxley, one of many who paid tribute to Ivor on our forum. Ivor was brought on board by the then Editor, Garry Coward-Williams, and wrote for us until 2016.
‘Before Ivor, vintage cameras were treated as curios, nice to own, but you wouldn't use them,' recalls Garry. ‘There was a lot of ignorance about oldies especially from those brought up on modern auto-everything cameras. Ivor put that to rights with a series that…