Zone Book Recommendations
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RustyBug
Registered: Feb 02, 2009
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Country: United States

Does anyone have a good recommendation regarding Zone information (i.e. book, etc. )... ideally as it pertains to digital sensor dynamic range limitations & post processing aspects of digital photography?



Sam N
Registered: Dec 16, 2006
Total Posts: 1264
Country: United States

http://hannemyr.com/photo/zonesystem.html
Adapting the Zone system to digital.

Frankly I think it's somewhat obsolete with digital capture where you can look at your histogram to nail your exposure. Sometimes your scene will have too much contrast, so you'll have to either choose to blow out some highlights, crush some shadows, or take multiple shots and combine them later.

Exposing "to the right" and pulling back the exposure in post (sorta like underdeveloping w/ zone?) is very useful... but it feels like DSLR DR is so limited compared to print film that you don't have as much flexibility to use the zone system.



Lotusm50
Registered: Sep 26, 2005
Total Posts: 6050
Country: United States

What good is the Zone System without all the endless experimentation in the darkroom developing film 10 thousand different ways? Nothing like the smell of developer and fixer!

N, N+1, N+2, N-1, N-2...

Pyro rules!



Tariq Gibran
Registered: Oct 01, 2006
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Country: United States

Yes, get that densitometer out! That's how most of us learned the zone system I bet.



RustyBug
Registered: Feb 02, 2009
Total Posts: 6521
Country: United States

Thanks for the link



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