Hi, Thursday, June 19, 2003, 4:27:00 AM, you wrote:
> And while we are at it what about this "digital darkroom" stuff. Why do > those guys have their computer in the darkroom? Or, if they don't, why > should we listen to liars anyway. <grin> <not a big grin, because there is a > little tinsey winsey bit of seriousness in what I said>. perhaps, to get consistent viewing conditions, they blackout the windows and switch off the lights so that the on-screen images are illuminated only by the screen. Besides, 'darkrooms' are only dark for the brief moment while you load the film in the tank. Otherwise they are lit normally or by a safelight and the light of the enlarger. Doesn't seem very different to me. On cave 'logic', if a slide is a slide and therefore not a photograph, and an inkjet print is an inkjet print and therefore not a photograph, presumably a silver halide print is a silver halide print, and therefore not a photograph, a daguerrotype is a daguerrotype and therefore not a photograph, and so on. This subterranean logic seems to suggest there is no such thing as a photograph, unless we count the platonic shadows of reality dancing on the cave walls, and the language of the cave has no concept of the general, only the specific. -- Cheers, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
