Photographers are, in a sense, composers and the negatives are their scores. …In the electronic age, I am sure that scanning techniques will be developed to achieve prints of extraordinary subtlety from the original negative scores. If I could return in twenty years or so I would hope to see astounding interpretations of my most expressive images. It is true no one could print my negatives as I did, but they might well get more out of them by electronic means. Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.” - Ansel Adams
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If Adams was that optimistic about the promise of electronic scanning (which in his day was analogue rather than digital), we can only imagine how he might have felt about the possibilities of, say, HDR photography with a professional-level digital camera.