Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]tintypes, platinum prints, daguerrotypes, c-prints, dye transfer, pinhole photos, paper negatives, are all subsets of photography, just as silver halide photography is a subset of... just as digital photography is a subset of... what's the problem here. A camera is a box with a lens at one end and a light sensitive material at the other. A photograph is an image produced by a camera. Why is it more complicated than that. By all means talk about chemical photography or traditional photography if you feel the need to. But digital isn't photography? So people who use digital cameras aren't photographers? Hmmm. What about hybrid approaches? I sense angels putting on their tutus and the sewing box creaking open. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com