Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/13

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Subject: [Leica] New Picture Place
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:02:05 -0500
References: <FFCEA0001828490DA3478C1F96F03C26@jimnichols> <C8B427D9.349A%mark@rabinergroup.com> <AANLkTing4_NpVzP=S9eMOCXscPu7=z0PHmM++ccmS2EW@mail.gmail.com>

I still have the Soligor spot meter with the adhesive Fred Picker zone tape 
around the lens barrel. 

Jeffery


On Sep 13, 2010, at 6:54 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> I love the zone system.  That's how I learned photography and it all makes
> sense to me.  I still meter off of something zone 5 every time I take a
> photo.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> The very first thing I say to somebody asking me about the zone system who
>> doesn't know is zone V equals middle gray. Certainly a start off or null
>> point. Think of the V as the exposure needle aiming at the middle or at 
>> any
>> rate delivering to you middle gray no matter WHAT you point it at. That
>> made
>> it easy to remember for me. Zone VI or IV is a stop lighter or darker than
>> that. Onward to infinity. Buy me an espresso and I'll explain the zone
>> system in ten minutes. About a minute a zone.
>> 
>> --------------------
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:51:07 -0500
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] New Picture Place
>>> 
>>> Tina, I can't relate to the zone system, but I like the dark, dull gray
>> of
>>> the LUG gallery.  It works, whether or not I put
>>> frames on the images, and always looks great to me.
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Brian.
>>> 
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net>
>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 5:16 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] New Picture Place
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I like Zone 5 gray for a background.  It doesn't make photos look either
>>>> too
>>>> dark or too light - just right.
>>>> 
>>>> Tina
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> That's what I hear it started out white.
>>>>> My first website had black backgrounds. So did my second.
>>>>> My future ones will be white and cream. And those are the ones when I
>> see
>>>>> I
>>>>> tend to like the looks of. I keep all my favorite photographer websites
>>>>> in
>>>>> a
>>>>> folder for quick reference. And I think blogs are starting to overlap
>> and
>>>>> take over from that.  Black is dramatic but kind of foreboding. Gloomy.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I went through a 100$ rag black mat board phase too when that came out.
>>>>> And the use of black velvet as a backdrop instead of white I did off
>> and
>>>>> on;
>>>>> mainly off.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is white the color of evil on the eastern hemisphere? Then that makes
>> me
>>>>> evil then to those guys.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --------------------
>>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>>> Photography
>>>>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> From: Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
>>>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>>> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:31:44 -0500
>>>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] New Picture Place
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
>>>>>> rabinergroup.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I wish I got to see the white background.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> It was white.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> --------------------
>>>>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>>>>> Photography
>>>>>>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>>>> www.tinamanley.com
>>>> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
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In reply to: Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] New Picture Place)
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