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From: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Is OM-4 Junk?
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 16:23:34 EDT
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> >	After reading a review of the Olympus OM-4 in
> >Modern Photography, I thought that the spot metering
> >system of this camera would be nice for Zone System
> >photography.
> 
> Good luck doing zone system with 35mm. How will you control development
> for each shot?

*** REPLACE THIS MESS WITH YOUR LINEAGE ***

Puh-leeze!  The zone system is a sensitometric approach, not a cookbook!  The
development adjustments are a REFINEMENT of the approach, NOT the be-all and
end-all of the technique!  You most certainly CAN do "zone system photography"
without individual frame development.

However, if that control is available, the zone system will allow the use of
it, so that this aspect of the craft can be controlled.

My soapbox statement:  Get the Zone System off the pedestal and USE it!

-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc.  (Which organization doesn't care about the zone system, Brian
                  Diehm, Ansel Adams, photography (except as applied to oscil-
                  lography), HC-110, Kodachrome, Bogen tripods, . . .)