From: Halvor (halvorb@mac.com)
Date: 07/28/03-11:02:08 AM Z
Dear Richard Knoppow
Thanks for taking time to write a comprehensive answer to a slighlty vague
question.
> At the risk of very much oversimplifying the answer is yes.
Simplification is what I was after, I do have access to a lot of books
relating to the subject, but limited time to read them & they tend to be a
bit too detailed,,, Simple understanding is not easily extracted.
> In a way Jones' work runs counter to the Zone System. The idea of the Zone
> system is to choose exposure and development so that the range of densities in
> the negative will fit onto "normal" grade paper regardless of the scene
> contrast. This results in distorting the scene contrast. Jones method was to
> shoot at an exposure which would just result in adequate shadow detail and
> adjust contrast by choosing a paper grade to match the negative. This also can
> result in a distortion of the original scene contrast.
Very interesting point, having learned photography first from the
sensitometric point of view, later from the zone system, ended up practising
something inbetween and now beeing back in the sensitometry. That (simple)
understanding has eluded me. I get that "yes of course" feeling.
> ... but IMHO is the only method that gives really good results.
sorry, what does IMHO stand for ?
> I am not at home at the moment but will post some references to Jones' work
> later. Its worth reading over. Good summarys are in a couple of older books.
> Again, I'll post references later.
Yes please :)
(disregard the abovementioned limited time to read, i´ll find it
somewhere..)
> Halvor Bjørngård
Halvor Bjoerngaard
Student
Chiba University
Japan
(my wallet disagrees, there definitely should not bee a yen mark in my name.
I better switch to "English" spelling.(that other garble is perfectly
understandable, though) :)
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