Re: Med format exhibit in Texas - but it ain't realityanymore than digital.

2002-10-23 Thread Steve Desjardins
But they are not both resultant from light falling on real objects. Film is a real object. When a computer translates something into data it is no longer a real object but anonymous data. It is always a real object in either case. In both cases, photons have fallen on a physical object and

Re: Med format exhibit in Texas - but it ain't realityanymore than digital.

2002-10-23 Thread Steve Desjardins
Of course the photons come up : you brought up the real side of this. If you want to talk about real objects, then you must consider what the physical manifestations of the image actually is. If you could create an atom by atom copy of a painting by Picasso, then I would argue that the two

Re: Med format exhibit in Texas - but it ain't realityanymore than digital.

2002-10-23 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Very good point! Steve Desjardins wrote: By the way, I'm enjoying this exchnage. Don't let a forceful argument be mistaken for anger ;-) There's been too much of that lately on the list.