Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Guy Bennett jotted down the following: > don't misunderstand me: i am not against the zone system - i think it can > be very useful, and - though i'm not ready to test all aspects of my > 'system' for best z-s performance - i do use a sort of simplified version > of the z-s to help determine exposure. After having read books and books, along with plenty of magazine articles, on the Zone System, both by The Man himself and others, I've concluded that for my style of photography, the correct adaptation of the Zone System is a simple two-step program: 1) Give the negative plenty of exposure. 2) Fix problems in the darkroom. I don't have the time or the patience to fiddle around with anything more complicated than taking an incident metering of the light. After that, I'm much more interested in what goes on infront of my lens and when to press the shutter release. M. - -- Martin Howard | eVolving eMergent eThereal Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | eNthusiasm eVanescent ePhemeral email: howard.390@osu.edu | eFficacious eMbryolic ePochal www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------