Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/28

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Subject: RE: [Leica] ZS, BTZS
From: Austin Franklin <austin@darkroom.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:42:24 -0500

>>>
>> Hopefully, no one, at least not with their Leicas. The Zone System and

>> more sophisticated variants such as BTZS are really only sensible to
use
> with sheet film.

>> [Austin] Why do you say that?<<<

> Because you need to control the degree of development of each negative
> based on the metering you used for that scene. Unless you expose an
> entire roll of film under the same conditions and with the same
> metering, this is impractical with rollfilm and 35mm film.

[Austin] That's never been a problem for me, especially with 12 exposures (120) film...  I guess we differ in what is 'sensible' or not.

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