To the traditional glass plate and film based sources for the fine print, the digital camera's memory card, and the computer file, must now be added. In addition, the importance of the differences between "positive" and "negative" or "Color" and "B&W", has been reduced with the appearance of the digital data file as the source of the final image. The term "digital negative" has entered our vocabulary - in fact the term "negative" may well retreat into history.

 Perhaps it is time to adopt Ansel Adams' metaphor and use the term "Score" to refer to whatever it is that contains the information needed to create the final "Performance".

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