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In photography what is a negative?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

A negative is an exposed and developed piece of film where the image is not a true representation of the original. That is to say, in black and white, light and dark areas in the original scene are recorded opposite in the negative. When printed, the process reverses again, thereby producing a final image where the light and dark areas of the final print correspond to the original scene.

In color film, the processed film is still referred to as a negative even though it is not truly "opposite" or negative in the same sense. In this case, the colors in the negative are the complementary colors of the original scene. When printed and developed, these produce the colors that were in the scene, so in a sense, they are reverted again.

Color slide film (aka transparency film) reproduces the original scene on film, which is then projected on to a viewing screen.

More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_%28photography%29

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