1105. People were making photographs on infrared film decades ago, so why are infrared photographs disqualified by P1?

Because infrared photographs misrepresent the tonal relationships seen by the human eye.

In other words, the characteristics of infrared that appeal to its fans are the same characteristics that disqualify it from P1.

The fact that photographs were made with this or that technique “back in an era when the public trusted photographs more” doesn’t mean that photos made with those techniques have all of the characteristics of the most-widely trusted photographs in the free world.

(X-rays have been around for more than 100 years, and they don’t meet P1 either.)

In the 21st century, numerous things that were done to photographs back in the film era disqualify photographs from rinairs and from TTG.

“Film-era technology” does not automatically make photographs trustworthy any more than “digital-era technology” automatically makes photos untrustworthy. More