Yes, of course 'analog' and 'digital' video processes are very different--thank you for your summary Fred, that is very helpful.
However, my central point was the potential problem with the definition of 'analog' David provided, which justifies use of the term to include celluloid film AND analog video b/c it is defines analog as a process "that uses ANY means to reproduce or record changes in phenomenon by creating an analog of those changes in another medium."
If that definition stands, then it must include digital video as well b/c it completely conforms to the definition that David provided; that is, digital video is also a means "to reproduce or record changes in phenomenon by creating an analog of those changes in another medium."
My point is precisely that if this definition stands than any reproductive process is 'analog' and I find that problematic in that it becomes too general a term to describe vastly different means of reproduction.
My call here is to stay specific and stay historic. As we move into a more hybridized moment in the history of moving images. I just wish people would refer to someone like Brakhage as an emulsion-based filmmaker, not someone who worked in 'analog film.'
Perhaps I'm being too picky here, but I think when we use one term too all-encompassing, the history of moving images becomes muddy. Especially as that history will be less emulsion-based and more digitally-based in the future.
For that reason, I will continue to use the terms "emulstion-based" or "photo-chemically based" as descriptive terms for work that uses such processes.
--tina
On Aug 26, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Fred Camper wrote:
> Quoting tina wasserman <twasserman_at_verizon.net>:
>
>> Just thought, another source for confusion in terms:
>>
>> in the definition below, would't 'digital' video also be an 'analog'
>> process? If an analog process is ANY means to reproduce then why
>> make the distinction between 'analog' and 'digital' video?
>
>> --tina
>> On Aug 25, 2011, at 9:05 PM, David Tetzlaff wrote:
>>
>>> An analog process is one that uses ANY means to reproduce or record
>>> changes in phenomenon by creating an analog of those changes in
>>> another medium.
>
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