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

DIGITAL 50 YEARS

Remember how different childhood used to be? Kids toda y don’t know they’re born!

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…

“This brought back a lot of memories for me,” says Eric Kingdon as he answers our question: what product are you most proud to have developed in your career? The industry legend, the “ears of Sony” as

Caravans and camper vans feature only rarely in Autocar these days – but half a century ago they were a regular and prominent topic, reflecting the popularity of such vehicles among the British public