Revisiting The Zone System… or, How I Learned To Love My Light Meter Again.

Link: Revisiting The Zone System… or, How I Learned To Love My Light Meter Again.

My goal for this artical is not to create yet one more tome on how digital exposure works. That’s already been done, repeatedly, and new efforts are always underway. Rather, my goal here is about two other things. First, to try and rectify a minor problem with my own technique of using an already-gamma-encoded gray scale for demonstration purposes in Lightroom—which we’ll get to later. Second, I hope to clarify a few things about the linear capture and gamma-encoding relationship, that seems to continually get muddled in the popular press.