Digital BW, The Print

Hello Richard,

>You could ask to see the negatives....or the transparencies...  the  
>originals. If you can make more than one of them.... each is a 
>reproduction,,,  No?

No, not at all.  A copy, or reproduction, of the original would look
just like the original.  A copy of a neg or a tranny (if it's a good
copy) would look just like the original and you'd have trouble telling
which was which.  A copy of a digicam image file looks just like the
original image file (whether viewed on screen or analyzed byte for byte).

A photographer's print (silver, platinum, gum, photogravure, inkjet,
whatever) is the result of a lot of time, effort, expertise and
artistic sensitivity which creates something new that is vastly
different from the original photographic capture, be it neg, tranny,
or digipic.


Regards,
Clayton


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