the digital illusion

I gave up much more than just the film roll when I started taking pictures with a digital camera. The magic moment when you saw a photo emerge from the developing tray occurred in the physical world.



A file of zeros and ones created by the camera's sensor and software is in the digital domain. It is not a photo actualy.



A digital recording exists by the grace of devices that can read the code and create an image from it. Countless, glowing dots on my computer screen make me believe I am looking at a photo.

I only understood the meaning of this much later.