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Old cards in new cameras

John Wade's articles are always very well written and illustrated but recently his Digital Classics (AP 20 October) was an extra treat. Nigel Atherton asked for readers to write in about their own, favourite early digital camera (Inbox, AP 17 November). I like all three of my makes and systems, which are Pentax, Nikon and Lumix. I also use their earlier lenses, now classified as legacy items, on my more modern kit.

If I were to choose a favourite it would be the Nikon D50, which I had converted to a 720nm infrared and so spawned a new direction for my image making as

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