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Re: Re: [OM] The Zone System

Subject: Re: Re: [OM] The Zone System
From: "Lama-Jim L'Hommedieu" <lamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 01:30:06 -0400
Cc: <litefoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I mis-spoke.

What I meant was with color you could use Zone skills by metering a highlight 
then increase the exposure so that it doesn't fall on
middle grey.  I used the word "put" but that was a bad choice of words.  Here's 
why:

I said, "take a spot reading from
> a highlight and "Put" it on the correct zone"  That implied that one could 
> meter on middle grey, find a highlight and "Put" it on
the right place on the film's curve by doing contrast adjustment.  Good catch.  
I cringed when I read it, after posting.

Lama

----- Original Message -----
From: "Titoy" <litefoot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [OM] The Zone System


> Lama, what did you mean by: "Put" it on the correct zone" as you say below ?
>
> "In color, you can't control any of those things.  What you can do is a
> partial implementation like meter from a grey card, take a spot reading from
> a highlight and "Put" it on the correct zone.  As a friend of mine often
> said, "It beats a blank." Lama
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <lamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 3:25 AM
> Subject: Re: Re: [OM] The Zone System
>
>
> > The full implementation of the Zone system includes manipulating B&W
> developer selection, time, temperature, agitation, & wind speed.  What
> you're doing is attempting to use the full tonal scale of the neg to just
> barely capture all of the tones in the original scene.
> >
> > In color, you can't control any of those things.  What you can do is a
> partial implementation like meter from a grey card, take a spot reading from
> a highlight and "Put" it on the correct zone.  As a friend of mine often
> said, "It beats a blank."
> >
> > Lama
> >
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