Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 26/7/00 9:52 am, Brougham at brougham3@yahoo.com wrote: > "Dan Honemann" <ddh@home.com> wrote: > >> If you intentionally overexpose by a third of a stop by rating Tri-X >> at 320, do you then under develop by the proportionate amount? Or do >> you develop as normal and let the latitude of the film compensate for >> the overexposure (hoping to bring out more details in shadows)? > > Run--don't walk--and beg/borrow/steal Ansel Adam's _The Negative_. > You'll learn more than you ever wanted to know. :) Yeah, baby, yeah! Despite one or two oddities, this is still better and easier to understand than most of the other books on the ZS. The ZS is so fundamentally simple, it gets complicated by people who see a way to make money out of it!! - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com