Digital BW, The Print

>you commented in an earlier message that the zone system is obsolete
>now that we have histograms. you are right when the procedure
>you describe here works.

I wouldn't agree with this. We have to separate scanned negs (which still 
have to be exposed/developed/scanned) with digital cam images. Many of us 
use negs and want to control the process like wet darkroom techniques. Most 
of my images are negs with only very recent ones being all digital. The real 
question here (for me) is how to control the process and not introduce a 
bunch of uncontrolled variables - color spaces! I find many errors when I 
"tweak" the histogram. I don't imagine that having photoshop move my white 
and black points is the kind of control that people want!

Brian