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Get the retro look

Modern cameras can produce images of staggering clarity and pixel-perfect detail, but these defectless digital depictions of scenes and people can sometimes feel a little cold. It’s no surprise, then, that we feel nostalgia for a time when photography was more difficult, and imperfections the norm. There’s a certain charm to old photos tainted by colour casts, light leaks, blurry edges and grainy details. What they lack in crispness they make up for in fuzzy old-school feels.

This perhaps goes some way to

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