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    May 19, 2020 4 minutes

    The benefits of a hobby

    A study by behavioural scientists at University College, London, and published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, says that pursuing a hobby and engaging in cultural activities (among other things) reduces the likelihood of dementia by 26%. Good news for photographers; especially ‘art' photographers and presumably even more effective for those who use film cameras in manual mode and do their own processing.

    Peter McKenzie

    Dynamic duo

    I had been reading magazine for decades. Angela Nicholson and Amy Davies were front and centre for the tech reviews. Suddenly they were GONE. It's such a delight to have found them again in AP. I

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