Digital BW, The Print

> a sacrilegeous perversion of the zone system. I know - beat me ;-) 
once I found my optimum average development time, that's all I use. 
> Everything gets that "N" development.

... compensating developers especially enable that perversion, but
people who soup for contrasty prints on #2 are advised to look around
before they bend over, if they drop their bar of soap.

> 
> I just expose for the shadows and let the highlights fall where they 
> may. Because this is what the scanner really does best - take whatever 
> density range is on the film and fit it into the numerical range of
it's 
> output (for 8 bit, that would be 0-255).  
> --
> Bruce Watson
>