Jens wrote:
> Hello list In my camera club we had a discussion: What is monochrome?
> What's the "official" photographic definition?
> 
> The only way I seem to be able to understand the monochrome
> definition is this:
> 
> In monohrome photography we paint with light in the darkness. With
> white on black. Or with white on any other background. So white on
> blue, white on green. white on red etc. Right?
> 
A monochrome image is one which is made with different shades of one 
color.  A black and white photograph (the finished product) really 
doesn't have any black or white in it.  It's all shades of gray.

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Scott Loveless
New Cumberland, PA
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