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DIGITAL 50 YEARS

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…

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

John Wade remembers when the shutters finally closed on the British camera industry

Road users had best be careful if they don’t want to incur the wrath of that police constable for over-revving their engines

This week the AP time machine travels back to this month in 1944 and 1981