Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Re: Grey Zone - no zone zone system
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:30:58 -0500

At 06:14 AM 9/27/99 -0400, Dan Cardish wrote:
>At the heart of the "zone system" is the idea of "previsualization" of a
>scene that you are photographing.  From a technical perspective, not only
>does it require an understanding of exposure and development of the
>negative, but how to match that negative to a particular type of paper you
>will be printing it on.

Not really. Ansel Adams had a devil of a time convincing people that he 
grew out of this stage early on and for many years even used multi-grade 
paper with multiple filters and exposures to get the print just right.

And pre-visualization is redundant.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO

http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

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