Beyond the Zone System, Fourth Edition
by Phil Davis
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Author: Phil DavisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-11
ISBN: 0240803434
Number of pages: 220
Publisher: Focal Press
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Book Review: Unusual and technically superb photography text
Summary: 5 Stars
Phil Davis was a professor at University of Michigan when he developed this intense system of exposure and development for classic film photography. The Zone System, as developed by Minor White and his associates, takes into account areas of shadow and highlight and has the photographer do some pretty fancy calculations for exposure and development. This system is particularly of interest to those who use view cameras that take a picture on a sheet of film that is contact printed or minimally enlarged. The contact print has miniscule grain and by following the Zone System, photographers have created exceptional images of great beauty that are unequalled in photography.
The problem with the Zone System is that it is complicated. Phil Davis spent at least fifteen years researching his version of this method, and this book is the result. Davis provides examples, charts, data, methods, instruction in using light meters. There are detailed examples of how to make test strips. This is a distillation of much of what he taught in his university courses. The method is said to be especially effective for studio photographers, whereas the traditional Zone System was definitely geared for outdoor natural light photography. If you are a film photographer who does their own development and printing, this is a valuable reference.
Summary of Beyond the Zone System, Fourth Edition
This fourth edition of Beyond the Zone System makes the science of photographic sensitometry both accessible and useful to interested photographers. It will appeal to any serious photographer interested in knowing how the materials and processes of black-and-white photography work. Instead of describing rote procedures to be followed blindly, this book provides the basis for understanding what needs to be done and why. This book relates theory to practice in a way that promotes a true partnership of science and art.Beyond the Zone System bridges the gap between the more theoretical aspects of the photographic process and the popular empirical procedures used by many photographers in the attempt to predict and control the quality of their photographs in practice.
This book is intended primarily for photographers who use large-format cameras and black-and-white sheet film, but the basic information about how the B&W photographic materials and processes work will be useful to users of any B&W film format.
Beyond the Zone System, 4th ed. will appeal to any serious photographer interested in knowing how the materials and processes of black-and-white photography work. Instead of describing rote procedures to be followed blindly, this book provides the basis for understanding what needs to be done and why. This book relates theory to practice in a way that promotes a true partnership of science and art.
A direct, practical approach to the technical aspects of photography
Thoroughly updated throughout
New chapter on control of image gradation
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