Posted by Drawing Fine Lines.. on August 31, 2002 at 18:47:05:
In Reply to: A serious but strange short survey posted by Rick Denney on August 31, 2002 at 16:21:10:
If I use a camera to take a photo of my computer's screen, it's a photo, no?
If I print the contents of my computer's screen on my inkjet printer, it's not a photo--it's a printout, right?
So what's the difference?
If I take a photograph and grid it off into squares and then reproduce an enlarged version of it in my front yard using various flowers for each pixel, is it still a photograph?
CG
(Wondered about this subject since DSO's came on the scene and let one print waveforms instead of using the scope camera--and had a client who still insisted on using the camera because it had "better documentation value")
(Who used to have fun putting black and white negatives in a slide projector and shining the image onto a piece of white poster board, using charcoal to color in all the white areas until the projected image was uniformly gray. Was the result a photograph?)
(Who can give you a ton of other examples--including some that illustrate very weird criminal prosectutions).