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The quality of the pictures you can take on your mobile phone is what sells phones these days. They are killing demand for cameras. Why lug a camera around when you’ve got one in your phone? Figures from Japan show how the market is shrinking: shipments of compact digital cameras from companies like Olympus, Canon and Nikkon were down 39% year on year. Louisa Adams has been looking at the brief history of digital photography. Winifred Robinson presents. First broadcast on You & Yours, 5 July 2018.
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