I read completely through the PDF of the Videc System and see no reason for it.Why do people continue to attempt to re-invent the Zone System? All they do is make it more complicated and usually require the obtaining of more expensive equipment. There is really nothing simpler than the Zone System as originally laid out by Fred Archer and Ansel Adams. The simplest explanation is in "Portraiture" by Archer. Adam's two series of books continued to refine it, but often these are more than most people attempting to use it need. BTZS and Videc are among the many attempts to alter it , but when the physics and chemistry of photography are taken into account the worker will find there are errors in some of their presumptions.
Pick a film and developer combination and then go back to the basics and PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!!! After you have carefully thought through production of several dozen images you should begin to become competent. Don't expect to expose part of a box of 25 sheets of film with an untested shutter and un-calibrated thermometer and become an expert regardless of any system you might use.
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