Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekig4.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!tekig5!tekig4!briand From: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Re: Is OM-4 Junk? Message-ID: <174@tekig4.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 16:23:34 EDT Article-I.D.: tekig4.174 Posted: Wed Jul 31 16:23:34 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 04:45:05 EDT References: <1520@trwrba.UUCP> <9414@ucbvax.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 24 > > 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, . . .)