Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/28

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Subject: [Leica] What is a photograph?
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:35:42 +0100
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For me the answer is easy. The moment you start moving elements around and 
adding stuff that was not in the scene, then it is no longer a photograph 
but a montage (as are the panoramas I sometimes post).

Nathan

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On Feb 26, 2010, at 2:22 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:

> David Pogue, tech columnist for the New York Times has a must read article
> on the limits of photography. It touches on many of the items we have
> considered on the LUG.
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/technology/personaltech/25pogue-email.html?8cir&emc=cir
> 
> 
> Larry Z
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