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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 260715" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>I could go either way.  It's a term I learned early on and don't question.  The way I look at it, with film you had two distinct and separate steps, the first was the proper exposure and development of the film, the second was the transfer of the captured image onto paper.  With digital, the processing of the film is what we're equating to "post processing", and could simply be called "processing" as well, which would greatly simplify much debate that goes on.  But we can also do many great and wonderous things in the digital processing of our "film" that could never be done in the simple developing step with real film, and there's where I see "post" coming in - because frankly, we don't have to develop since that step is done in the camera.</p></blockquote><p></p>