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In Paris with the new OM-3, photojournalist and Acting Features Editor Peter Dench got his hands on a camera so instinctive it made him lose his grip

Andy Westlake surveys the cameras and lenses released over the past year, and what they tell us about the state of the market

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Sigma calls its latest superzoom ‘the ultimate all-in-one zoom lens’, but can a 10x zoom be an ultimate anything, asks Damien Demolder