Lama, what did you mean by: "Put" it on the correct zone" as you say below ?
"In color, you can't control any of those things. What you can do is a
partial implementation like meter from a grey card, take a spot reading from
a highlight and "Put" it on the correct zone. As a friend of mine often
said, "It beats a blank." Lama
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Subject: Re: Re: [OM] The Zone System
> The full implementation of the Zone system includes manipulating B&W
developer selection, time, temperature, agitation, & wind speed. What
you're doing is attempting to use the full tonal scale of the neg to just
barely capture all of the tones in the original scene.
>
> In color, you can't control any of those things. What you can do is a
partial implementation like meter from a grey card, take a spot reading from
a highlight and "Put" it on the correct zone. As a friend of mine often
said, "It beats a blank."
>
> Lama
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