digital transfer. That’s a lot different now. Two years ago, I began dealing with standardization practices and color spaces. I defined my lab a clear color space and began working with a wide range of exposure possibilities. There are two types of exposures: the cathode ray exposure used in the mass market for producing inexpensive prints of digital images, and the laser exposure used by professionals. And there are only two manufacturers: the firm of Durst, which produces the Lambdas, and OCE responsible for the Lightjets. Technically, these are relatively similar and differ only in their finer details: one of the two achieves more clarity because it works closer to the paper with the laser. One no longer has exposure differences between the greatly blown-up and the very small – which, with analog devices, always meant the light became more diffused the greater the distance, and therefore the print was flatter. This never happens with the laser. Recording and exposing techniques, adjoining chemical processes with their imposed limitations on color range, and their special features are changing. I would assume that, in ten years, we’ll be able to say with relative certainty: ”That must have

been an exposure made in the early twenty-first century.”

Daniels: We have discussed the theory regarding amateur practices becoming changed by digital practices. There could possibly be more images, perhaps even better ones, from the photographer’s standpoint, since the results are more readily controlled. But does this make itself noticeable in your analysis or basic equipment?

Sasse: I’m certain the quality will improve. The early to mid-1970s witnessed a low point, with the invention of the pocket camera: working 9 by 13 guaranteed blurred pictures. That was truly a qualitative low point – at the same time, however, the educated Hippie generation ventured into the world with backpacks. And from that period we have sophisticated amateur photographs from all parts of the globe. People took along expensive reflex cameras on their trips, and they made pictures that exist now in archives. That’s why the prejudiced attitude towards «amateur photography» has to be viewed with discrimination. Regarding the question of the digital, one should never overlook the Internet: this not only gives you the