Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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