Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/12

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Subject: [Leica] Best known photo ?
From: abridge at dcn.org (Adam Bridge)
Date: Wed May 12 22:51:52 2004
 
On Wednesday, May 12, 2004 Peter Klein thoughtfully wrote:

>
>How all this plays out is going to be very interesting.  I'd hate to be 
>prohibited from dust spotting my photos lest I corrupt the "truth checksum" 
>embedded in my TIFF file by my camera or scanner.  And what of gray areas 
>like the environmental portrait that appears in a newspaper or news 
>magazine.  Many times these are staged in order to characterize the 
>subject.  Unless the staging is obvious, it has much of the power of a 
>journalistic photo, yet its honesty depends on the honesty of the photographer.
>

I suspect that one thing that a journalist should maintain is an unaltered image
from the camera - preferably in RAW format. I don't know if there are tools that
allow one to go from TIFF back to RAW. Probably someone could write one. But
even with that tool a RAW file would be a reasonable indication of the nature of
the image ultimately represented. Those two, in juxtaposition, should reveal
image modification.

Adam
In reply to: Message from pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein) ([Leica] Best known photo ?)