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[photo-3d] Image Value


  • From: markaren@xxxxxxxxx
  • Subject: [photo-3d] Image Value
  • Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 08:28:03 -0400 (EDT)

What is your image worth? To the maker...everything! To everyone
else......it's barely worth the film it's recorded on. This is
especially true in a legal sense, and in many circles, with the
exceptions of famous photographs that are well recognized etc. Digital
cameras, manipulative software and alike have removed photography from
use within the legal system, thus devalueing the use and credibility of
photography for such purposes. The famous " Elian Raid" photo has been
suspected of manipulation, and the problem is we'll never know.
Technology has converted photography into an " amusement only" forum,
with little to be believed, and much to be enjoyed....just like
Hollywood I suppose.
So the worth of today's generated images is highly speculative, and
simply worth what someone is willing to pay. Even then, most sources
will tell you it may have been worth the paper it was printed
on.....maybe. 
                                            Mark Dottle  


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