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: Edward Meyers <aghalide@phantom.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 16:23:09 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us



On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, Eric Welch wrote:

> 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
> 
Sorry, I left out the Polaroid book and I have it. The other two
were Artificial Light and Natural Light. I'm talking about the
original series. The current one has only the three. Ed Meyers> 

In reply to: Message from Eric Welch <ewelch@gp.magick.net> (Re: the zone system vs. the Big Picture)