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Digital photography has created a new phenomenon that I call “lead finger syndrome.”

Russ Burden

Updated July 27, 2016

Once reserved for fast drivers and known as “driving with a lead foot” has now migrated into the world of digital photography

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Originally Published December 8, 2014

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