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Zone System: Digital / 35mm / Medium Format!
Zone System /
Digital Zone System/
Simplified
Zone System
for correct exposure (s)
The world's
easiest and the most practical
Zone System of exposure technique
to understand and apply to your Digital Photography
Light: You
can see it, you can feel it, and now you can learn to capture its soul!
9th
grade level
As E-Z as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 for correctly exposed images with Digital,
Black and white (B&W) negative film, color negative film,
and transparency (slide) film.
Correct
Exposures
by
CHOICE
not
CHANCE!
Based on Farzad's Simplified Zone System
(5-stop©
Film/Digital) technique
©1987-2007 Bahman Farzad
Believe
it or not, exposure skills
DO NOT COME with it!
When you buy an expensive GUITAR, you KNOW
that playing skills
DO NOT COME
with it!
When you buy an expensive CAR, you KNOW
that driving skills
DO NOT COME with it!
When you buy an expensive CAMERA, why, then,
do you NOT
KNOW that exposure skills
DO NOT COME with it?
Unlike
the skilled, the
unskilled photographer
always awaits a miracle!
A WindowLight
(window light) portrait
Thanks
to all who purchased this Simplified Zone System book and made it the most popular as well as the #1 best selling
Zone System book on numerous occasions during the last few years on
amazon.com
Thanks France for making the zone system
book the #1 best selling lighting book on
November 19, 2006 on amazon.fr
Thanks Japan for making the zone system
book the #1 best selling Equipment as well as Lighting book on
April 22, 2007 on amazon.co.jp
Before the beginning of each
Zone System (Light Measurement / Exposure) class, everyone seems to depend
on their camera's "Normal Exposure" readings for their exposures because
it is their only guide to the world of exposing their images!
In order to introduce them to the harsh reality of correct exposure, I ask them to set the ISO of their
35mm or Digital camera to 100, set their Exposure Mode
to Manual mode of "M", and set their shutter speeds to 1/125
sec. I then ask them to point their cameras at the same complex subject (more than one
tone) and tell me the normal exposure indicated by their
camera's meter.
In this case we have 1 subject, 1
Correct Exposure, 15 students, 15 cameras, and as many as 6
different exposure readings indicated by these cameras, NONE of which matched
our technically correct exposure settings for the subject! If the following
illustration does not convince you to depend on your vision, eyes, heart, mind, and skill (and not
your expensive camera) for correctly exposed images, then in the long run, your
missed opportunities, wasted money, and poorly-exposed images will!
The results of
these assignments are usually eye-opening! The technically correct-exposure of 1/125 @ f-16 for this subject was obtained using a standard 18% gray
card (that is how this picture was taken). In
this case, not a single student's camera came up with this reading. As you can see,
some of the cameras were off by as much as 2 to 3 stops. The most interesting
thing about this assignment was that each student thought their expensive camera's reading gave them the "correct
exposure" and none of them had any idea how wrong their
camera's exposure reading was!
In order to deprogram the
students and teach them exposure
skills and the art of seeing, I had to make them realize that they
must trust their eyes, heart, mind, and skill more than they trust their expensive
camera's meter to determine the "correct exposure" of any subject!
Unfortunately the cameras of today, very much like the cameras of some 50 years ago, cannot
differentiate between exposing a black surface and a white surface!
them realize that they
must trust their eyes, heart, mind, and skill more than they trust their expensive
camera's meter to determine the "correct exposure" of any subject!
Unfortunately the cameras of today, very much like the cameras of some 60 years ago, cannot
differentiate between exposing a black surface and a white surface (true!)
White Lotus Flower and the leaf
Please DOUBLE-CLICK this link for viewing the Lotus Flower
Gallery by Bahman Farzad (400+ images)
A reader from
Colorado wrote:
"I learned more about exposure and
photography during the first 24 hours of receiving this book than all of the so called
photography books with pretty pictures that I bought and read for the last 25 years"
The
World's Easiest and the most
practical Zone System book and the World's
first 5-stop Digital Zone System book (since 1996)
to help you to take better exposed pictures with Digital and Film cameras!
White Lotus Flower and leaf
What
is the Zone System of exposure in photography?
Since there is NOT a single camera in the world that without your help can
capture what your eyes see every time, the zone system of exposure was
developed to help you to do just that!
If you have always been left out of the intellectual discussions of the
Zone System of Exposure, you are NOT alone! Let's introduce you to the world's easiest
and most common-sensical approach to this powerful exposure technique. Simply pick an important tone in your
subject
(like a forehead in portrait photography) and ask yourself (very
much like cooking a steak) how you would like it DONE!
Cooking a steak
versus photographing a tone!
Your
Choice of how a steak to be cooked is:
Your
choice of how a simple image tone should look is:
RARE
BLACK
MEDIUM RARE
DARK GRAY
MEDIUM
MEDIUM GRAY
MEDIUM WELL
LIGHT GRAY
WELL
WHITE
Lotus Flower Leaf and a rain drop
Your
camera is a "tone-capturing" machine, very muck like a steak-cooking machine
that is programmed to produce "MEDIUM" cooked steaks every time. In the
case of the steak-cooking machine, to have more choices, you must manually adjust the
dials so that it can overcook or undercook the steak. In the case of a camera, you
must adjust the dials to underexpose or overexpose your subject tone so that the desired
image tone can be recorded.
As cliché as it sounds, this
"correct exposure" approach is the foundation of the Zone System of light
measurement.
More
examples and explanations?
For further
explanation of each Zone System example please click on each image
Division of HEIGHT into equal STEPS gives us the CONTROL for accurately estimating the height of any point on the
slide in steps
Division
of SUGAR into SUGAR CUBES
provides us the CONTROL for sweetening of our tea
or coffee
Division of TONE into equal STEPS (STOPS) gives us
CONTROL for correctly exposing a tone (tones) in a photograph
The Skilled
Photographer always questions the meter's authority and often overrides
it.
The
Unskilled
Photographer doesn't
know the question!
Make your camera the extension of your
vision!
Learn the art of correctly-exposing your subject!
The teaching philosophy behind
this Zone System Book:
Clarity, Simplicity, and Repetition.
"One of the easiest-to-understand books on
exposure and the Zone System that we've ever seen"
Outdoor
Photographer Magazine
Correctly exposing an image, very much like driving a "stick shift" car, is a skill that does not come
with any camera and canNOT be bought at any price!
You MUST learn
it and earn it!
The
Confused Photographer's Guide to Photographic Exposure and
the Simplified Zone System by Bahman Farzad
Give
yourself or someone the gift of skill.
It will be enjoyed for life.
Camera-Specific
Zone System
Cheat Sheets /
Techniques
Please note: If you do not see your camera here, chances are that either the camera does
not have a spot metering / partial metering feature or I
was not able to get the camera locally or
my efforts to secure a loaner
from the camera manufacturer was unsuccessful. If you wish for me to create you one,
please e-mail me and I will do it as soon as I have access to the camera. If you are a
manufacturer, please get in touch me for a loaner so that I can get the camera (s) to be
included in this list and the Zone System book.
Film Zone System with
Canon EOS Rebel G
Film Zone System with
Canon EOS Rebel 2000
Digital
Zone System with
Canon EOS Rebel XT
Digital
Zone System with
Canon Rebel XTi
Digital Zone
System with Canon EOS 10D
Digital Zone
System with Canon EOS 20D
Digital Zone System with Canon EOS 30D
Film
Z
one System
with Canon Elan 2
E
Film
Z
one System
with Canon Elan 7 E
Film
Zone System with
Canon EOS 3
Film Zone System with Canon
A2E
Digital Zone System
with Canon PowerShot G3
Digital Zone System
with Canon PowerShot G5
Film Zone System with
Canon EOS Ti (300V)
Film Zone System with
Minolta 500si
Film
Zone
System with Minolta 500si
Film Zone System with
Minolta 700si
Film
Zone
System with Minolta 500si
Film Zone System with
Minolta Maxxum 5
Film Zone System with
Minolta Maxxum 7
Film Zone System with
Minolta Maxxum 9
Film
Zone
System with Minolta STsi
Digital
Zone System with Nikon CoolPix 990
Digital Zone System
with Nikon CoolPix 995
Digital Zone System
with Nikon CoolPix 4500
Digital Zone System
with Nikon CoolPix 5000
Digital Zone System
with Nikon CoolPix 5700
Digital Zone System
with Nikon CoolPix 8700
Digital Zone System with Nikon
D50
Digital Zone System with Nikon
D70
Digital Zone System with Nikon
D80
Digital Zone System with Nikon
D200
Film Zone System with Nikon F4
Film
Zone
System with Nikon F5
Film Zone System with Nikon
F100
Film Zone System with Nikon
N50
Film Zone System with Nikon
N55
Film Zone System with Nikon
N60
Film
Zone
System with Nikon N65
Film Zone System with Nikon
N70
Film Zone System with Nikon
N75
Film Zone System with Nikon
N80
Film Zone System with Nikon
N90
Film
Zone
System with Nikon N6006
Film
Zone
System with Nikon N8008s
Film
Zone
System with Pentax ZX-5N
Film Zone System with
Pentax PZ-1p
Film Zone System with Pentax
MZ-S
Film
Zone
System with Pentax 645N (Medium)
Zone System with Pentax
Digital Spotmeter
Zone
System with Pentax Analog Spotmeter
Film
Zone
System with Pentax ist (*ist)
Digital
Zone System with Pentax istD (*ist-D)
Digital
Zone System with Sony DSC-F717
Digital
Zone System with Fuji FinePix S7000
Whether
you like it or not, your Zone System (exposure) skill as a photographer will ALWAYS be the most important element of your final image.
Off-camera
(External) flash/Strobe Photography
Using Nikon CoolPix 990/ 995 / 4500 for serious Digital Studio
Photography
A digital image with Nikon CoolPix
990 (CP 990) and Novatron studio strobe (flash) units
Films
and their approximate Digital MegaPixel equivalents
Calculated @ 107 lines/mm resolution for
the interested photographer!
35mm,
24X36X11574
= 10,000,000 = 10 MegaPixels
645 medium format, 60X45X11574
= 31,249,999 = 31 MegaPixels
6X7 medium format, 60X70X11574
= 48,611,111 = 48 MegaPixels
6x9 medium format, 60X90X11574
= 62,499,999 = 62 MegaPixels
4X5" (Inch) Film , 102X127X11574
= 149,930,555 = 149 MegaPixels
8X10" (Inch) Film , 203X254X11574
= 596,782,407 = 597 MegaPixels
11X14" (Inch) Film , 279X356X11574
= 1,149,583,333 = 1.15 GigaPixels
Where
11574
is pixels/sq. mm.
PS: This has nothing to do with the Zone System! Thought
someone may be interested
Please look us up at the
Birmingham School of Photography
© 1978-2007
Bahman Farzad / CPG Books, the confused photographer's guide to photographic exposure and the
Simplified Zone System by Bahman Farzad covers Farzad's 5-stop©
Simplified
film / Digital Zone System, Incident metering, spot metering / Partial
Metering, Pentax Spotmeter used as example) Misc. exposure techniques from Sunny-16 to
Moony-64. The minimum educational level to follow the book is 9th grade/High School.
(Nikon®, Canon®, Pentax®, Sony®,
Fuji®,
and
Minolta® are registered trademarks of their respective companies)
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