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Beyond the Zone System, Fourth Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Phil Davis
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 688828
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Pages: 220
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Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0240803434
Dewey Decimal Number: 771
EAN: 9780240803432
ASIN: 0240803434
Publication Date: November 1998
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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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 Unusual and technically superb photography text September 23, 2004
Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
 Beyond the Zone System May 30, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
The title of this book really summarized the book. It gives the theory behind the procedures that many advanced photographers already know and use. I don't know of many people who are going to apply his techniques directly, i.e. sensometers, etc. Rather this book gives a theoretical basis for some of the techniques that Adams and others used. It essentially gives university or grad level experiments to allow the reader to test and prove the concepts for themselves. So if you were looking for a "How to Book", you will be disappointed. Read Peterson's book, first. Learn how to apply the zone system. Then read this book to understand what you are doing.
Interesting but, too technical. August 2, 2003
Agustin A Barrutia (Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Argentina)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this book to fill the gaps that the AA books left in my mind. The first chapters are really interesting and you'll learn about the Zone System aplied to printing and papers.
But then, I think it was to much for me when it started to get into drawing curves and testing materials.
That's the reason why I left the zone system behind. I'd rather take`pictures in the steet than draw lines and read neg densities at home.
If you want to be a ZoneSystem photographer, then this book will guide you through the real process that AA executed.
Interesting but, too technical. August 2, 2003
Agustin A Barrutia (Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Argentina)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book to fill the gaps that the AA books left in my mind. The first chapters are really interesting and you'll learn about the Zone System aplied to printing and papers.
But then, I think it was to much for me when it started to get into drawing curves and testing materials.
That's the reason why I left the zone system behind. I'd rather take`pictures in the steet than draw lines and read neg densities at home.
If you want to be a ZoneSystem photographer, then this book will guide you through the real process that AA executed.
A must-read for advanced photographers December 26, 2002
Ralph Hennen (New York, NY United States)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a book all master photographers who shoot and print their own work should understand and use. It is a definitive work on the science and engineering of photo sensitive emulsions that applies not only to standard silver-halide photography but alternative methods as well like Platinum/Palladium, gum bichromate, cyanotypes, etc. although the other methods are not directly covered by the text.This book was written for the "left brain" with all its formulas, methods and explanations. But, it is detailed enough that the brain does not have to fill in the blanks of information not included as is the case with many such books. There is a section that addresses a method of exposure form a more "right brain" view and draws on the experience of using a light meter for photographers who are at that level. I do not believe how well written this book is compared to others dealing with the same subject. I wish I had found this book years ago.
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