Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Staying w/ film for a while - handled a D100 (and a 10D, and...)
From: Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:09:03 -0700 (PDT)

George Lottermoser <imagist@concentric.net> wrote:

> 
> I also still feel the need to distinguish between a real 
> photograph - meaning that light exposed a light sensitive
> emulsion coating on a substrate which will hold the image 
> when developed and fixed for a goodly long time.

> as different from a digital capture; which, until printed, 
> does not exist, except as a code which requires powered 
> hardware and software to manifest in a manner which can be 
> viewed.

The bits and bytes that make up an image file are analogous to molecules of a latent image before the emulsion is processed.  With either technology one must process the image before viewing it.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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