While prints are more common than negatives, when a dispute arises, which is quite common, the judge often requires the negative to be brought into court. More than once I saw altered prints. On 1/8/07 2:45 PM, "dd-b@xxxxxxxx" <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. > >
