Degradation of film during processing.

[Nikon 2]

Image = imagination So YES!!!, "image" does not only belong to the visual world!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Creating images (visual, audio, touch) is what our minds DO!

"Visualization", the creation of an image in one's mind that one carries through to the print, can be an essential part of one's photography. YMMD

When I finish a roll of film, rewind it in the canister, I can only imagine what the images would look like.
Same with digital, taking images with the Leica MD, I also imagine what I’ve taken…!

 

[Vaughn]

im·ag·ine
/iˈmajən/
https://www.google.com/search?clien...2ahUKEwiFvP-3it2CAxU6MUQIHSuQBiEQ3eEDegQIKhAI
verb
verb: imagine; 3rd person present: imagines; past tense: imagined; past participle: imagined; gerund or present participle: imagining

1. 1.
   form a mental image or concept of.
   "I couldn't imagine what she expected to tell them"

 

[grain elevator]

imagination (n.)​

"faculty of the mind which forms and manipulates images," mid-14c., ymaginacion, from Old French imaginacion "concept, mental picture; hallucination," from Latin imaginationem (nominative imaginatio) "imagination, a fancy," noun of action from past participle stem of imaginari "to form an image of, represent"), from imago "an image, a likeness," from stem of imitari "to copy, imitate" (from PIE root *aim- "to copy")
(https://www.etymonline.com/word/imagination#etymonline_v_34543)
"image" doesn't come from "imagination", it's the other way around. Anyway in my mother tongue the word for imagination has no relation to that for image. Perhaps a lead to why we think differently about this.

 

[Nikon 2]

imagination (n.)​

"faculty of the mind which forms and manipulates images," mid-14c., ymaginacion, from Old French imaginacion "concept, mental picture; hallucination," from Latin imaginationem (nominative imaginatio) "imagination, a fancy," noun of action from past participle stem of imaginari "to form an image of, represent"), from imago "an image, a likeness," from stem of imitari "to copy, imitate" (from PIE root *aim- "to copy")
(https://www.etymonline.com/word/imagination#etymonline_v_34543)
"image" doesn't come from "imagination", it's the other way around. Anyway in my mother tongue the word for imagination has no relation to that for image. Perhaps a lead to why we think differently about this.

Correct, I imagined what the image would be…!

 

[Vaughn]

Correct, I imagined what the image would be…!

Yep, sounds good...and one takes that imagined image and uses it as a guide to create an image on paper. The success of the image on paper (a photograph in this case) relies partly on how well one translates one's mental image to a visual image.

 

[Nikon 2]

Yep, sounds good...and one takes that imagined image and uses it as a guide to create an image on paper. The success of the image on paper (a photograph in this case) relies partly on how well one translates one's mental image to a visual image.

Mind over matter…!

 

[Axelwik]

A digital photo never displayed is a DIP, Digital Image Processed.
The developed film negative put in a dark box is a NIB, Negative In Box…!

Irrelevant to the reality of taking, processing, and viewing photographs.

 

[Bill Burk]

Irrelevant to the reality of taking, processing, and viewing photographs.

Had a dream last night where I spent a week camping and hanging out in a small town. Shot film most days but one day I decided to shoot digital. Then I handed the digital camera to a lab that processed a few pages of images and text. So I could see what I shot digitally right away. And I never saw what I shot on film.

When I woke up it all disappeared except the story I am telling you now.