Re: Generation of slides

[P3D KENNETH LUKER <KLUKER@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Come on! RE-EXPOSED? To what? Not light! Because there's an extra bath it's
> second generation? Developer, reversal, color developer... there is no
> second generation-
> 
> >Wouldn't they be 'third generation', as the first generation would actually
> >be the original scene as occurred at the moment of exposure? : )

I had always understood that in a reversal process, (maybe not ALL
reversal processes?) there was indeed an exposure to light, partway
through the development process.  But since that reversal exposure is
programmed into the system itself, I wouldn't consider it a separate
generation.  The first stable, fixed output of the system seems to
be the first generation. 

In the limit, though, the REAL first generation, and absolutely the
finest, sharpest, most un-degenerate generation of all, is the image
in the mind of the photographer, before the film is exposed.  The
exposure itself is the second generation, and almost always is not
as good as the first generation that exists only in the creative
space in the mind of the designer.  Even the stereo dimension is
better there, and that has little to do with processing!  So:
conception = generation 1; exposure = generation 2; first output of
system (neg or transparency) = generation 3; print from neg =
generation 4! :) :) :) :) :) 

(I suppose someone could say that the reality that existed before the 
designer saw it and got the idea was really the first generation, 
but this is getting too metaphysical for me!) :)

Ken Luker

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Kenneth Luker
Marriott Library Systems and Technical Services
KLUKER@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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