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    Nov 24, 2020 4 minutes

    The camera lies

    It’s interesting that both Patrick Collins (26 Sept) and yourself dispute the saying ‘the camera never lies’. Even in this digital age it IS still true – the camera never lies. However, for the sake of his art, the author often does! John Langham

    Film cameras lie less

    Thank you for publishing my letter in the 26 September issue, in which I repeated the old saying ‘the camera never lies’. Regarding your response that it had always lied, all cameras can only record what is in front of them, but film cameras give an unaltered and true

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