Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It may not be wrong consider digital as not the real thing. Digital is a state of electromagnetic charge. Silver is an element. Silver, even in a latent image, is still an element, which is tangible and real. Digital has to be converted to analog and then into elements using some device. What is real, really? :-) DaveR -------------------------------------------- Hi Dave, Reductionism has it limits. For example, an element of and by itself has no complex product value. Carbon is an element. That's all it ever will be by itself. However, when carbon is part of a molecule, like those that make up a cell, we're in the realm of biology and medicine. Big difference. Silver functioning as the metal it is and reduced and fixed in chemical photography is not equivalent to the electronics of digital imagemaking. In short, the fact that we can reduce all matter to electrons and the particles in the nucleus of an atom does not make atoms the common denominator of the larger entities they compose. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts because the whole is different due to the mix of its constituents at various levels of organization. In short, a printout -- no matter how convincing it looks -- is not the equivalent of a traditional silver image and never will be. Sorry to be negative. Bob **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48)