Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Hardware vs. software
From: Afterswift@aol.com
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 12:33:11 EDT

In a message dated 9/2/03 9:25:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, LRZeitlin@aol.com 
writes:

> Open any textbook on visual perception or cognitive psychology and learn 
>  about the cerebral processing that occurs between sensation and 
perception. 
> JBs 
>  rough relationship of 25% hardware and 75% software is true for what goes 
on 
> 
>  in your head as well as in your digital camera.
>  
>  So enough of this blather about film being "true" and digital being 
>  "artificial". Both are abstract representations of what is out there. 
> Neither is 
>  "correct".
>  
>  Larry Z 
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Larry,

You're overlooking the fact that we are the bottom line, the product of a 
long organic evolutionary process. The camera isn't an organic being. It isn't 
produced by evolution. But it must conform to our organic reality. Maybe nature 
is a technology, but at a certain point it joined up with consciousness. And 
it's the consciousness more than the science of perception that is the 
difference which a camera image must satisfy. 

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