Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jan 24, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Walt Johnson wrote: > 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. sounds like you can't go wrong Walt... > > > 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? I'd like that.... as a completely untrained "intuitive" shooter, I just do it , but I'd love to learn to do it properly, Steve > > > > Walt > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information