Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] mirror reflections
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:16:19 -0400

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.

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