Re: [Leica] Re: Photoshop dilemma

[Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>]

I can't imagine anyone using a photograph as
scientific evidence.  Photos have been altered to
change reality long before the computer was invented. 
- --- Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:
> 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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