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LET THERE BE LIGHT LEAK!

10 MINS

ack in the days of film, if you had a gap in your camera body, light would leak in through the cracks and tinge the film with colour casts across the frame. This exposure to light, or ‘light leaking’, was originally seen as a problem to be avoided, but

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