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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Sensiometry
From: Jeff S <4season@boulder.net>
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 22:39:48 -0700

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


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Jeff Segawa
Somewhere in Boulder, Colorado