RE: [Leica] Staying w/ film for a while - handled a D100 (and a 10D, and...)

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Well, you can indeed, George - but in a few very short years you're pretty much going to be talking to yourself and a rapidly dwindling number of folks who want to draw such rigid distinctions.

Best

B. D.

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Staying w/ film for a while - handled a D100 (and a 10D, and...)


Not the definition of photography - however the definitions: Photographic print, photographic negative, photographic slide, photographic transparency, photographic positive - as meaning light sensitive emulsions on substrates which have been exposed to light and therefore hold an image - seems very different in fact, substance and aesthetics than - image data residing as code, in various magnetic, cd or other memory systems which require powered hardware and software to read, print and display as an ³image.²

This is very up for me as I¹ve just mounted and installed a dozen prints in an exhibition which I call EDGE: 3 photographic prints from large format negatives (2 - 12x20 contact prints, 1 enlargement from 4x5), 1 photographic enlargement from xPan neg, 4 inkjet prints from digital captures, 4 inkjet prints from scans of 35mm film.

To my eye, mind and heart - in fact, substance and aesthetics: I feel a clear movement from photographic printing (print making) into the world of digital print making. Both methods create an object which relate to photography - most folks won¹t even know what they¹re looking at - however - as I worked on and finished the prints - I experienced such huge differences in fact, substance and aesthetics - that I simply must clarify my use of the language - for me:
    a photographic image = recorded on light sensitive film or other substrate  
    a digital image capture = recorded on ccd, scanning back, et al
    a photographic print = printed on light sensitive emulsion coated substrate
    an inkjet print = an inkjet print
    
With those definitions, I can discuss the prints and their properties: aesthetically, historically, technically, etc..


bdcolen@earthlink.net (bdcolen)8/4/03

>definition of photography

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