Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/02

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Sensiometry
From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 22:46:18 -0500

Phil Davis, "Beyond the Zone System", Focal Press

Jonathan Borden

Martin Howard wrote:
>
>
> OK, time to bite the bullet.  I'm not an "Ansel Adams" type photographer,
> more of a "zone focus and point and shoot" with a ball-park scientific
> wild-assed guess at things like exposure, development, and printing times.
>
> However, I feel that I would like to learn properly about the technical
> aspects of photography.  Not that I necessarily intend to adhere to them
> at all times, but I'm the kind of person who likes to know what rules I'm
> breaking when.
>
> So, can anyone recommend a good book on these subjects?  A single volume,
> please, I don't want to buy the four book AA series at $25 a pop.
>
> Also, I understand something about film exposure and development,
> but paper
> and enlargement is still a big mystery to me.
>
> M.
>
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> Martin Howard                     |
> Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU       |    What boots up must come down.
> email: howard.390@osu.edu         |
> www: http://mvhoward.i.am/        +---------------------------------------
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