Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: The camera doesn't lie!
From: Doug Herr <telyt560@cswebmail.com>
Date: 20 Jun 2000 19:56:14 -0700

On Tue, 20 June 2000, Ted Grant wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> "Lying with photographs is more serious than lying with words, because
> people believe that the camera cannot lie."
> 
> Ladies and gentlemen,
> The above is a quotation from an article in  Le Monde Diplomatique  16
> February 2000.  Please remember this is a quotation from Le Monde of
> Paris!   Think about it for a moment before you respond, as I find it
> very interesting as a lifelong,  50 years, photojournalist,
> 
> Think about about that for a moment in this day of computers, digital
> cameras and photoshop.
> 
> Do you feel this is right or wrong?
> 
> ted

The camera doesn't lie but it's possible for a person to be a very convincing liar when using digital imaging tools.

Doug Herr
Sacramento
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt
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