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We love moaning. The raw file won’t open, the firmware update wiped your settings. But spare a thought for the early adopters – when digital photography meant ghostly battery life, media cards that could barely hold a lunch break, colours that made everything look a bit ill. Peter Dench hears from top shooters about those early frustrations and breakthroughs, and adds his own…

Wendy Evans invokes solar power to help create a vintage print on chemical-infused paper

When everything comes together, there’s no better feeling, as Michael Topham experienced in Croatia

Trackside photographers often get a better view of a race than anyone else, even though they may not realise what their camera has seen until they go through the results afterwards – in the old days,

Answer: the first digital camera – John Wade explains how it all began

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them