Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]sometime around 12/14/99 11:01 AM, Mark Rabiner at mrabiner@concentric.net was heard to write: > A better example would have been if the table was a dark walnut so it would be > zone III: your threshold last sign of detail in the shadows and then you would > have the zone VI Caucasian face three stops up from it (and if it wasn't say > an > expansion was in order or the #4 paper. Development for the relationship only > between two tones would be inaccurate and in practice I've never done it. Yes, but in the end, the relationsihp will never be linear, because film is on a curve, and so is paper, so you've got two curves, and the physical impossibility of representing gray tones in a linear fashion, keeping one from having paper reflect 8 times as much light between Zone III and VI in the negative. That was the original question, no? - -- Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.neteze.com/ewelch Zen master to hotdog vendor. "Make me one with everything."