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DIGITAL 50 YEARS

To mark a century of Leica, the firm ...

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…

BLAST FROM THE PAST

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

A classic 35mm compact rangefinder camera from the 1970s