Amateur Photographer

Viewpoint John Gilbey

Your first photographic purchase after the camera itself is often a case to carry it in. There was a time when this was easy, with most manufacturers offering what was laughingly called an Ever-Ready Case (ERC) for most of their models. They weren't, of course, ever-ready. Thousands of snatched images from pre-SLR cameras, many of them mine,

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