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thought that your response to the letter from Michael Kane about expensive cameras (, 21 February) was a trifle harsh. After all, in these straitened times there must be fewer folk able to fork out the money for a new mirrorless camera plus lenses than there used to be. I am a retired person approaching the age of 80 rather faster than I would like, and thanks to the vagaries of the stock market now find myself having to live off what is basically 1990s money, so I too tend to think of a lot of the latest cameras and lenses as being ‘frighteningly expensive’ and unaffordable, although I am not envious of the folk who can buy them, because I know

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