The best digital camera

The best digital camera is your scanner, because with a scanner you can use a film camera (or plate camera, if you are a deep traditionalist). The most interesting film cameras are made out of metal, leather and glass, and even a 1930s camera can compete with the latest hi-tech digicam for image quality, and beat it hollow for satisfaction.

Will film disappear? It looks unlikely; take a look at flickr.com to see how film (and darkroom printing) are surviving and thriving.

The best photographs created since photography's invention were made with low-technology cameras and what we might call inadequate materials. Most of them only had one colour.

A photograph doesn't care what was used to make it.

There is usually a logical explanation. If the weather is warm, you don't wear your dressing gown in the morning when you first get up, and if - a couple of weeks ago - you left your vintage Heuer in your dressing gown pocket it will seem as if your vintage Heuer is lost.

Meanwhile, unknowingly, you have been walking past your lost vintage Heuer two or three times a day, as you pass your dressing gown hanging peacefully on its hook.

Lots of work searching for nothing, chance found the watch.