There's a good essay by Ernst Gombrich on this called Mirror and Map.
Off the top of my head, in a different way, loudspeaker design also
manipulates frequency response curves to try to make the sound "nice",
Nicky Hamlyn.
On 29 Oct 2010, at 19:17, John Matturri wrote:
> But the claim isn't about the eye, visual system, or reproducing
> vision. The first thing that a photographer has to learn is that the
> camera doesn't reproduce what we see: for example, the constancies
> don't work in a photo in the way they do in vision: so you take a
> picture and your subject turns out to be too small in the frame. The
> objectivity of the photography just is the systematic mechanical/
> chemical mapping of values from the world to the sensor or film.
> There are conventions of camera/lens/film/sensor design but any of
> these provides just as much objectivity, a wildly anamorphic lens as
> much as a standard lens.
>
> j
>
> On 10/29/10 1:04 PM, bill harris wrote:
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>> Here's a small example-- on the level of simple=2C accepted
>> technique-- as =
>> to how the camera cannot capture the 'rteality' of the eye.
>> =20
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>> But as we speak=2C cameras are yet to be fitted with brains that
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>> Therefore=2C to portray a realistic face=2C the shooter must adjust
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>> =20
>> BH
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>>> Date: Thu=2C 28 Oct 2010 13:44:05 -0400
>>> From: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: ontology=2C transparency and the "disposable camera"
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> =20
>>> On 10/28/10 1:10 PM=2C William Brown wrote:
>>>> Photos are not necessarily 'transparent' indices of a reality=2C
>>>> then=
>> =2C
>>>> but they do have (potentially) a photonic-indexical link across
>>>> time
>>>> to what was in front of the lens at the time of image capture.
>>> What you call "photonic-indexical link" seems pretty much to be
>>> what is=20
>>> meant by transparency. Though I guess that there can be non-
>>> photonic=20
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>>> =20
>>>> My contention would be
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>> =20
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>>> is.=20
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