> I don't know the official answer, but it would seem a neg carries more > validity than digital. You could hire a lawyer to witness your digital > shot > and that would possibly stand up in court. Don't they generally call witnesses to testify that the photo shows what they saw at the scene? I'm reasonably sure they never take the negatives into court, they just show prints. Some digital cameras have an add-on option where I think they digitally sign the file as they write it, which probably makes it as secure as a negative against alteration -- if people bother to go back to the camera original in either case.