Re: zone system and large format film

Chris -

I can only speak for myself, but I am of the III - VI variety. I have only
been doing this for the past dozen years, so I do not go back as far as many
others here. Perhaps the papers or films are key, but 5 stops work for me
better than anything else.

Cheers -

george

--- "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net> wrote:

> Well, I'm getting up my nerve to ask a sort of non alt question--but at
> least it does deal with large negatives!
>
> When you all are out in the field, do you generally place your shadows on
> Zone III and highlights on Zone VII or Zone VIII?? What happened in between
> Adams' zone system and Carson Graves et al? It seems that people have
> migrated to a Zone VII highlight, and contracted the zones to fewer. Minor
> White in his book from the 60's says that paper changed and got more
> compressed and that is why the change. Is this true? Techiegeeks, PLEASE
> enlighten me, especially those who used papers from early on (30's-60's)
> until now....Condenser enlargers, VC paper, #2 filter as normal.
> Chris
>
>
>

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