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    Mar 29, 2018 4 minutes
    Source:   Gary Smith has no use for a camera that doesn't have a raw setting  

    On the head, sun

    As a photographer of railways and more recently landscapes, who's struggled with contre jour, Paul Simmons's letter (AP 17 March 2018) reminds me of experiences I have had when I meet others at the railway lineside that seem to conflict with his assertion that ‘a JPEG-captured image... can be enhanced... using the on-board editing tools'.

    I was taught in art lessons at school to have the source of the light at an angle, using light and shade – or different tones – to show the three-dimensional form of subjects, a principle repeated in many photography publications. When I have conversed with trainspotters, they have often expected that I want the

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