Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 3/1/07 8:05 PM, "Robert Meier" <robertmeier@usjet.net> typed: > This is an oddly contrarian view of exposure and development of B&W film. > You use exposure to get the detail you need in the shadows of a B&W > negative > and then you vary either negative development (the zone system) or paper > contrast to have the highlights print as you want them. Getting the > highlights "right on the money" through correct exposure doesn't make any > sense for negative film (it does, of course, for slide film -- and > digital). > The highlights in the final print are controlled by the print exposure, not > the negative exposure. > > Well placing the highlights through exposure is certainly possible and done every minute and I'd check into it do some searches its the way photography is practiced by a heck of a lot of people anonymous or quite well known. Zone system or just winging it. Its not a cult thing its the way most people I think do it if they just don't guess at a mid tone or set it on A or P. People aim at a face and open up one. The fact that this flies in the face of "the rule" of photography is what makes it very confusing and the most confused thing I've run into on photography. There are a few more but this ones I think's the king. Mark Rabiner 8A/109s New York, NY markrabiner.com