Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. > Try to get ahold of this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0895861410/qid=946876341/sr=1-15/102-8872211-0245624 John P. Schaefer's done the best Zone System book I've yet seen, but it's out of print, so happy hunting! I'll have to see if his currently-in-print Ansel Adams Guides contain any similar material. Phil Davis's book, I find thorough, but dense and not much fun. Fred Picker's Zone VI Workshop book is very brief but useful. I love AA's The Negative and The Print, but more as general reading. I *really* love not obsessing about it all, because mechanical shutters just aren't pinpoint precise to begin with--ever seen the speed accuracy graph of one? Looks like a zig-zag and it changes with use. Fortunately, they're still good enough for our purposes ;-) Also try to get ahold of something like this: http://www.versalab.com/server/photo/products/densi1.htm - ---------- Jeff Segawa Somewhere in Boulder, Colorado