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Originally Posted by toryw
weston/adams zone system? whats that.
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In the 1940's Edward Weston and Ansel Adams worked together on a system that allowed them to pre-visualise a finished print at the time of making the exposure.
They allocated 11 "Zones" (tones) between 0 ( Pure black with no detail) to10 (Pure white no detail) with the average mid tone being Zone 5 . from this sequence, zone 3 would give detail to black,(eg: black animal fur; black tuxedo) and zone 7 would give detail to a white wedding dress; caucasian skin. Ken