Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Two of my three cats are actually pandas - bright white with blotches of dark gray tabby scattered about the landscape. Suggestions as to where on the zone scale ought the meter be set ;-) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> To: "LUG" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 1:36 PM Subject: [Leica] re: Black cats, metering and the Zone System George Three of my cats are zone 3ers one is a solid zone 4 and one a glaring zone 8. There never seems to be a problem doing a shoot with these little fuzzies while using TriX and D-76. In bright sun I simply meter for the zone 4 puss, close down a stop and shoot away. To compensate for the extreme brightness range and loss of detail in shiny zone 8 kitty I use N-2 development. This us where the comparison between film and digital seems to become confusing. Without the ability to control zone placement with processing how does one carry out previsualization to its logical conclusion? Processing is half the battle when attempting to imagize our surroundings. With digital I'm denied an important step in my quest from conception to fruition. The old-fashioned way allows a magical intervention on our part. I have a plethora of pussies. Black, white, and in-between. It's not too farfetched to conceive of making my white one grey or my black ones white. Again, we come back to developing our film the old fashioned way. I'm really interested in where we go with the new technology and anxiously await your input. Also, do you think it would be informatiive and educational to use te Zone System as a category in one of the montly contests? Walt _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.13/1914 - Release Date: 1/24/2009 8:40 PM