Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/07
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At 06:34 PM 11/5/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Last month's Photo Techniques has an article on how to do this!
>
Oops, it was actually in Darkroom User Issue #30, 1997/4, "Train Your Brain" by L.T. Gray. Excellent article, and overall really useful issue.
The editor Ed Buziak can be reached at 100410,1561@compuserve.com
Really nice fellow, who sent my daughter a ton of stamps!
The system is called GSOTPANWASTOTZSS, which stands for Gray's Seat-O'-The-Pants And Nowhere Within A Stone's Throw Of the Zone System System.
Basically, you pick one film, one developer, and one development time that is a "bit shy" of recommendation. You go out into the bright mid-day daylight and bracket 6 stops or more, then develop. The best image is your "standard" for mid-day sun shots. Whenever you are in mid day sun, you remember the "home stop" and then decide to go for +/- from the home stop.
You make a home stop for each kind of lighting condition.
Or, you can tear off the chart in film box and carry that around. :-)
BTW, this is ON TOPIC because he recommends using an M3 or an M6 with the battery removed.
Bob