Quote Originally Posted by Doremus Scudder View Post
The Zone System is basically a way for the photographer to be able to visualize how the photographic process will render the scene being photographed and the things that can be done to alter and adapt that rendering to best fit with the emotional message the photographer wants to communicate by making the image. The technical stuff is simply the means to that end and changes with technological advances and changes in materials.

Doremus
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I thought the zone system was a way for dry plate photographers to not waste their plates.