Are photographic prints and film analogue?

Obviously they aren't digital, but a strict definition of analogue is "encoded by a continuous signal that corresponds to some value of interest". Like, magnetic videotape is very obviously encoded. Vinyl records, the groove is an analogue for the frequency/amplitude of the sound.

There's no need to decode a photograph. It's apparent to your eyes in the same way that the original image is.

Is that analogue? If not, what is it?

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