<< The Zone System involves breaking a continuous tone process into an
arbitrary number of "steps"
There's a huge difference. >>
There would certainly be if it were true, but..
I suppose it would be more correct to say that it is not the process which
is broken into an arbitrary number of steps, but that this is just a
conceptualistion that enables us to more readily previsualise the results of
the changes in exposure and development.
Peter Marshall
Fixing Shadows and elsewhere:
http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/cgi-uva/cgiwrap/~ds8s/Niepce/peter-m.cgi