My HP Scanjet scans both negatives and photo paper prints and turns them into digital images which I can then open up in Photoshop and tweak in anyway.
Its a simple process and common process with photographers because many went from film to digital and we like having our old film favorites on our computers.
On this thread, you are looking at a digital image, not a film negative.
And you have missed my point completely.
I know all about scanning negatives.
But, if he HAS the negatives, they are definitive proof that a photo of an image was actually taken.
You can MANIPULATE an EXISTING negative, but without a camera and an image, you cannot create what does not exist.
The negative proves that an image (non manipulated) existed.
Now,if you want to persist with this conspiracy thingee, he COULD have placed a stuffed bird on the stone and snapped the shot.