For me, monochrome is any single colour, whether green, red, blue or anything in between. Variations in saturation and tone give a viewable image, as in a sepia print.
Technically, black is no reflected light, therefore no 'chrome' at all, whereas white is all colours reflected equally,, therefore not 'mono'. HTH! John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jens Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2008 6:21 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: OT: Define Monochrome Hello list In my camera club we had a discussion: What is monochrome? What's the "official" photographic definition? It seems the original definition is about painting with only one colour. Black. For instance - on white paper or canvas. This gives me a problem: Black & White - that's two colours. Or perhaps just one: White, since black is not a colour. White is. So, B&W is paintning with to colours: Light and no light/light and darkness and all shades in between. So why is "yellow and blue", or "red and green" etc. not acceptable within the definition of monochrome? Or is it ? The only way I seem to be able to understand the monochrome definition is this: In monohrome photography we paint with light in the darkness. With white on black. Or with white on any other background. So white on blue, white on green. white on red etc. Right? Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
