About the Author

Rod Lawton has been a freelance photography journalist since the days before digital, and has spent the last decade writing full-time for photography and computing magazines such as Digital Camera, Practical Photoshop, PhotoPlus, Amateur Photographer, Professional Photography and many more. After three years as Technique Editor and then Editor on N-Photo magazine, then an 18-month stint as Cameras Editor on leading technology site Techradar, he is now Head of Testing for Future plc’s Photography division, organising reviews and group tests for Digital Camera, N-Photo, PhotoPlus and Professional Photography.