A "slide" is only a mechanism for viewing.
It is more pricisely termed a "reversal".
On the film plane it's flipped horizontally and vertically,
completely reverse of what your eye sees.
It is a optical-chemical production.
Imaging is probably a better broad term to use than photograph.
Paintings, sculptures, photographs, and digital captures all fall
into the category, but with their own, distinct sub-categories.
To capture an image digitally is similar to photography in lens mechanism,
but still very, very different. The product produced directly
from the caputre is that difference. (If it were the product,
an image, the representation of reality, which mattered, then all
the mediums in the previous paragraph could be obfuscated together.)
An inkjet print is not a optical-chemical production. It's not a
modification to a chemical structure. Beging more similar to a
painting,
it's the laying down of color mechanically. It's an mage in the
broadest sense, and it's clearly a "print", but it's not a
"photographic print". It's a "digital image print".
Lest you consider this nit-picking, a fax is not considered an original.
Duh. We will simply use the same level of distinction in this new
medium. That's all. We're just attempting to define new terms
for this changing world.
CRB
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