SIR – Some years ago, two guys had a number high in the record charts; it was titled Video Killed The Radio Star. I am thinking of working on a number myself and titling it Digital Killed The SLR Camera.

I could not believe it last Saturday when I took a spool of 35mm film in for processing where I have taken film for donkeys years, only to be told that they no longer deal with it.

Thanks to technology, yet another great skill and art form has gone down the pan, namely photography. Nowadays any fool with a mobile phone or digital camera can point these devices in a general direction and obtain reasonable images.

It is sad that the introduction of these devices spells the end of what has been a great form of art. It goes to show that although technology makes our lives generally easier and more comfortable, it does have a down side.

Every year, several people earn the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel himself was honoured for discovering a method of stabilising glyceryl trinitrate; this was to make mining safer for people, but we know that the resultant dynamite was used on a vast scale to kill people through warfare.

Technology is indeed a double-edged sword and we are stuck with it for better or for worse.

Terry Tordoff, Calderstone Avenue, Buttershaw