Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/20

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: the zone system vs. the Big Picture
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@gp.magick.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 12:36:52 -0700

At 12:00 PM 4/20/96 -0400, you wrote:

>Ansel was a neat guy. And he did a great job writing the first
>series of five (?) books. I believe that there was a sixth in
>the works, but never made it.
>The latest series, Camera & Lens, Negative, Print, was (I was told)
>written by Bob Baker, under the direction of Ansel. Or perhaps
>Bob Baker, once a Polaroid employee, "helped" Ansel write them.
>Is Bob on the internet? If you are, fess up, please. Ed Meyers

Let's see, The Camera & Lens, The Negative, The Print, Polaroid Land
Photography, what was number five? I know he was working on a Zone system
for Color, a guy at the Ansel Adams Gallery at Yosemite told me (he'd been
working on it). Can't think of a sixth in the series, though.
Eric Welch
Grants Pass Daily Courier


Replies: Reply from Edward Meyers <aghalide@phantom.com> (Re: the zone system vs. the Big Picture)