In order to bring to light how the argentic and digital images relate to each other and what their status as images is, the author questions anew a number of arguments discussed by André Bazin (ontology) and Roland Barthes (the punctum). Roy contends that digital images have informed a new understanding of the-reality-of-images. Digital as well as argentic images, both having to do with perception and thought, can’t help being subjected to processing and transformation. Perception, thought, processing and transformation all fulfill the requirements of the-reality-of-images or make up their ontology.