Film is very much alive

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…

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

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

DIGITAL 50 YEARS

Three Fujifilm X-T30 users give their verdict

KATE KIRKMAN Food and weddings photographer https://createhub.uk