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    DIGITAL STARS A digital classic

    Jan 12, 2021 4 minutes

    Consider what makes a camera a classic. It has to be of a certain vintage. When new it would have had innovative features. Those features will have stood the test of time. And it still works. Apply those criteria to film cameras and you come up with names such as Leica, Rolleiflex, Zeiss, Voigtländer and many more. Apply the same thinking to digital cameras and what do you get? Not a lot, actually.

    Few digital cameras have been around long enough for one to truly justify the term vintage. A particular model might have been innovative when new but its innovation was undoubtedly surpassed in the model that followed a year later. So no one single camera is likely to have

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