Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/23

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Zone System for Dummies
From: "Roger Beamon" <roger@beamon.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 13:55:32 -0700

On 23 Dec 99, Dan Cardish wrote, at least in part:

> Son of a gun, you are right!  Not only that, but I even own the
> book, but totally forgot about it!  It is "How to use the Zone
> Syetem for Fine Black and White Photography", by John P. Schaefer,
> published 1983 by HPBooks, isbn: 0-895864-141-0.
> 
> Many of the books in the HPBook series are quite lame, but this
> title is one of the best on the Zone System.  I'm also not sure if
> it is still in print.

Don't know whether it's still in print but John Schaefer was an 
admirer of AA, a past president of the Univ. of Arizona, had most 
to do with developing the Univ's 'Center for Creative Photography' 
and a fine photographer in his own right. And to top it all off, he's 
a grand guy!

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Roger
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