@ Philip;

I was only saying that I'd refrain from posting anything other than processed scanned negatives as I don't envisage using any other analogue medium to make photographs.

@ Ray;

No worries about hijacking the thread as this debate seems to be providing some clarity about what constitutes a "hybrid".

For me, Marco seems to have hit the nail on the head in pointing out the vision statement from the initial page - that the images posted should "combine digital imaging and traditional photographic processes".

Therefore, speaking only for myself, I'm going to stick with my original intentions of posting images created from scanned film negatives / transparencies that have had additional post-processing work done via the likes of Photoshop, Lightroom, Silver Efex Pro and the like.
I'm OK with this -- I also enjoyed the images on Flickr. I felt like a voyeur viewing all the EXIF properties -- nothing hidden there :) I do think that
"combine digital imaging and traditional photographic processes".
is overly broad -- it means that *every* posted image that originated on film qualifies since it had to be scanned to get uploaded. But I also agree with Don -- rules are oppressive. I think that if everyone is up front about what processes they use, this will be self-correcting -- participants will view and comment on the stuff that interests them.

Speaking as a user of this forum--I'm a moderator on APUG but not here--I think the spirit of the enterprise has always been that the users should define the hybrid forum as it develops with its own categories that reflect the work that people are doing, and there's no point in making rigid rules to discuss an evolving cluster of media.

As on APUG, I think the observation that "well we have to digitize images to post anything" is a red herring. That's hybrid in the trivial sense. Obviously, things have to be digitized to be posted on an internet forum, but it doesn't address the essential idea of combining old and new processes to produce hybrid work.

Should simulation of traditional processes with 100% digital techniques be fair game? I don't know. I can't say it's something I really find appealing, but maybe there should be a place to discuss the way that the aesthetics of traditional photography inform our digital work and possibly vice versa (for instance, I usually find myself explaining the Zone System lately by using the histogram as an analogy). I don't think you'll find that on dpreview or photo.net, so maybe it belongs here.

I've been experimenting lately with classic soft focus lenses on a view camera with a digital camera mounted on a sliding back. Is that appropriate for hybridphoto.com? It seems like the kind of thing that might interest people here, and I'm not really interested in discussing that on photo.net, but it doesn't involve a light sensitive emulsion, so it's really digital photography with classic equipment. Here's an example--

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidagoldfarb/4537823087/

Well put, David A.