Re: A film vs digital question

[lea murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does the exif data work in favor of using digital?

I thought, and I could be mistaken, that the original capture time/date was recorded with an image then when you open it in Finder or Explorer, it shows when it was last modified.

That seems like it would be great insurance on an image's authenticity.

Lea

On Jan 8, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Russ Eisenberg wrote:

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.

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