karl shah-jenner <shahjen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> This may be simplistic but "photography" means "painting with light" >> or something to that effect. Nowhere is the medium mentioned. Why >> should digital photographers then not have the same status as those >> who employ film and paper? > > I have to agree.. As much as i'm no fan of the wholesale adoption of > digital, throwing the baby out with the bathwater and turning one's back on > alternative formats, photography is many things to many people. Actually, I had understood that digital was leading to something of a renaissance in alternative printing processes -- it's so easy to make a relatively large negative on an inkjet printer, which can then be used to make the contact print in platinum or whatever. Obviously that pathway won't help the alternative processes for *originally* capturing an image. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
