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    Apr 02, 2019 4 minutes

    Reminiscences

    This is my first letter to AP after several decades of reading it, dating back to 1969 when my dear dad spotted what I'd been pursuing in your pages and made me celebrate Christmas with my first serious camera – a Russian Zorki 4 Leica rangefinder copy. That in turn led my mum to land me a job at the then-great Hove Cameras – at that time the UK's number one Leica dealer – where I met every kind of Leica enthusiast. This was followed by a few years at Photomarkets' London HQ at Farringdon Road, where I wrote and rather crudely assembled artwork for the company's staff newsletter). Such were the days before Apple Macs, Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign. And as for Lightroom – that was a planet yet to be dreamed of. And now there's On1 Photo RAW, which I've just downloaded from your site.

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