>From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >Hmmm.... Can any digital print be called a "Photograph"? Perhaps a >"Digital >> >Image" would be more appropriate! >> >> Oxford Pocket says: >> >> Photograph: >> Picture taken by means of a chemical action of light on sensitive film.
>My Oxford American Dictionary says, "a picture formed by means of the >chemical action of light or other radiation on a light-sensitive surface". >That is a verbatim quote. > >It says nothing about film, nor about the need for chemical processing. And >the conversion of light to electrons is indeed a chemical action in the >sensor material. BTW, my dictionary is copyright 1980, so it pre-dates this >argument by a bit. > > >Ciao, >Graywolf I just checked my Oxford Pocket Dictionary - residing on my shelf for years and companion to many a query regarding meaning or spelling, and it is the 5th edition, dated 1969. LOL. Okay, upstairs to rifle through one of the 2 huge volumes of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (got them for Her Indoors when she was doing her dissertation at University back in 1987). Photograph: "[Used for the first time, together with 'photographic', 'photography', by Sir John Herschel (1839)...] A picture, likeness or facsimile obtained by photography" ...and: Photography: "The process or art of producing pictures by means of the chemical action of light on a sensitive film on a basis of paper, glass, metal, etc; the business of producing and printing such pictures..." First printed 1973, this edition 1986. My own personal view is that a photograph should relate to the overall means and not specifically the method. However, there were different methods of acquiring images way back in the good old days - photoglyphy for instance - so maybe the correct trend is to invent new ways of describing new methods. I do believe that the world changes though and definitions can be adjusted to take account of these changes. It must be remembered that it is the use of a word by us, the people speaking it and writing it, that results in such words eventually finding their way into dictionaries, or indeed resulting in adjusted definitions in said dictionaries. I think that most people seeing an inkjet print will refer to it as a photograph, and hence in time that definition will prevail. .02 Best, Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________ Free UK Mac Ads www.macads.co.uk
