Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Po-Wen Shaw jotted down the following: > IMHO the essence of the word > "photography", which literally means "writing with light" (ok, I suppose > light isn't all black and white...). > Light, i.e., the electro-magnetic radiation, doesn't have colour. Colour is a psychological phenomena, the result of how the human visual perceptual system interprets different wave lengths of light. Therefore, B&W photography is the only "true" photography! ;) M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | People don't like to be parameters email: howard.390@osu.edu | in an equation. www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------