On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:09:12 -0400, Caveman wrote:
Per Merriam-Webster - Photography : the art or process
of producing images on a sensitized surface (as a film)
by the action of radiant energy and especially light.
It would appear that Webster believes a slide is a
photograph.
> 
> Butch Black wrote:
> > If you are consistent with that logic then a slide
or
> transparency is not a
> > photograph unless printed on silver halide
> photographic paper. 
> 
> And it's not. The process is photography, but the
> result is properly 
> called a slide and not a photograph. If you look at
the
> Agfa contest 
> rules, you'll see they don't take slides either. And I
> didn't complain, 
> I'm not into the business of trying to pass slides as
> photographs.
> 
> cheers,
> caveman

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