Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anthony Atkielski wrote: ><Snip> > Not knowing the zone system does not seem to have handicapped too many > photographers. > > -- Anthony What you don't know can't hurt you!!!!? Having a grasp on zone system techniques as taught by Arnold Gassan gave be a handle on what I am doing with a camera. Also in my very first photo job doing black and white printing in a lab the language that was spoken was Zone system. I would have no Ideal what I was being told to do if I hadn't crammed for 3 days with my college textbook which was the Gassan. I might have been falling asleep standing on my feel but when they said print the pants at zone three I knew they wanted just discernible dark detail (jddd) in the pants. Mark Rabiner