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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Photoshop dilemma
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:42:38 -0400

Of course...I think the idea though was that if we can no longer trust
"scientific data" - as in film - we may need eye witnesses to verify the
reliability of the film. Gets pretty dicey all the way around.

B. D.

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[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Steve
Barbour
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Photoshop dilemma


of course this raises the issue of reliablity of eyewitnesses versus hard
scientific
data....Steve

> Fascinating point, Neil. In fact, one of the MIT researchers noted that
> perhaps we are heading for a time when, as was the case in the Middle
Ages,
> we will have to rely on people bearing witness to the truth of what we are
> shown. ;-)
>
> B. D.
>
>
> I don't see anything to fear in what BD and others have said about this.
> Three hundred years ago, nobody would have accepted a painting as evidence
> of what actually happened.  The acceptance of recorded images, video or
> still, as a literal record is a relatively recent thing.  In another fifty
> years or so, I doubt whether a video or a photograph will be accepted as
> evidence it court as the means to produce doctored images
indistinguishable
> from the real thing will be within the reach of almost anyone.
>
> We'll have to go back to trusting people's reputations and integrity when
we
> form our view of the World.
>
> Neil



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