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Re: [OM] Re: [OT] What is photography?

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: [OT] What is photography?
From: "C.H.Ling" <chling@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:25:08 +0800

Lex Jenkins wrote:
> 
> The graphic artist in me says it's valid.  But as photography...?
> 
> Some folks regard a quality flatbed scanner as the equivalent to a large
> format studio camera for still lifes and montages.  I've seen some excellent
> work along this line.  Heck, I've *done* some work like that, tho' my
> efforts have been spotty at best.
> 
> Hmm...I'd say it's photography if *any* use of the digital capture medium is
> photography, sure.  What's the diff between a digital "camera" and a
> scanner?  One has a lens, the other doesn't.  A pinhole camera doesn't have
> a lens, per se.  We could really split some hairs over this one.
> ===========
> Lex Jenkins
> ===========

All scanners have a lens to focus the light on CCDs. Some higher end
models has complex lens groups and on the new Nikon scanner, they even
have ED elements.

C.H.Ling

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