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053 06 April 2004

And of course the meaning of the word "negative" will change. The digital camera like the earliest Daguerrrotype produces a positive image, this is the end of an inverse image being the source for a picture, "negative" disappears from the lexicography of photography, and reverts to the commonplace meaning of nothing or none.

The digital direct positive makes chemical negative photography appear primitive - salt paper negatives, waxed papers, collodion negatives, nitrate roll film these obsolete curiosities were once the cutting edge technologies of their day, characterised by pollution and image instability, oxidation under normal atmospheric conditions is relentless.