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Amateur PhotographerReviews

Is plastic really fantastic? Why I just don’t get Lo-Fi cameras

October 12

There’s a mystifying trend at the moment for cheap, lo-fi plastic compact cameras and, I must admit that, like matcha and wild swimming, I just don’t get the appeal.

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