Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] B&W Scanning
From: Johnny Deadman <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:45:51 +0000

on 12/12/99 8:55 pm, Martin Howard at howard.390@osu.edu wrote:

> Johnny Deadman wrote:
>> 
>> [XP] they seem to have a lot of
>> 'air' around Zone V, whereas trad films seem to dive off into Zone VI
>> and IV much more quickly... or maybe that's just me.
> 
> I thought the point of the zone system was that there was a linear
> relationship between the zones?


Theoretically, yes, but in fact different films in different developers have
different curves, which is one of the main reasons for their different
tonalities... long toe, short toe, whatever.
- --
Johnny Deadman