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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Photoshop dilemma
From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 08:27:31 -0700
References: <20020515145939.61008.qmail@web11105.mail.yahoo.com>

yes but we trust a "witness" to the event ... but not a witness to the event,  who has a
photograph of the event....Steve

> 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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In reply to: Message from Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com> (Re: [Leica] Re: Photoshop dilemma)