Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin Howard wrote: > >>>>>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.<<<<<<<<<<<< Hi Martin, We have to keep in mind the folks who use the zone system are irrefutably locked into it and what it does, which is their right. And I must say they do seem to use it rather well. Although myself, I've never been able to fathom it in these many years and like you, I'm a quick meter set camera kind of photographer who then gets at the subjects flying past the front of my lens. I usually explain, the only kind of zone system I under stand is the de-militarized zone and ..... "don't go near it! " ;-) I belive it's Jim Brick who has the best all time description of a zone system. Unfortunately I can't re-post it from files as we've a bit of a "damn computer crash" and now I'm on a new computer system that look's like I'm on a "very long learning curve!" If Jim gets a read on this he might be so good as to re-post his very own.... Zone System! :-) Ted Victira BC Canada http://www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant