Digital BW, The Print

SKID Photography wrote:
 >>> And to add to that, the zone system was invented by Ansel (and Edward
>>> Weston?)...


>> I know Minor White was one of the zone pioneers too, and perhaps the best
>> photographer of the group (IMHO).
>> 
>> Todd

 
> Sorry Todd....
> Yes great photographer and yes used the Zone system to the Nth degree, but of
> a
> different era and age than Ansel and Edward.  I do not believe he was part of
> it's invention, too young. ;-)

> Harvey Ferdschneider


Harvey, Jack,

Look, I said Minor "was one of the Zone pioneers too", not that he invented
the system instead of Ansel, jeesh.

Here's some stuff that I think will please everyone:

<http://web.a-znet.com/fstop/f-stop.faq-2.film.htm>

"The Zone System is a photographic methodology worked out in the early part
of the 20th Century by the photographers Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and
Minor White and has been carried on and refined to the present
(predominantly) by John Sexton and other Adams disciples."

<http://www.intangible.org/Features/Quick/Introduction/Introsub02.html>

While Ansel Adams is considered the founder of "the zone system of planned
photography" and Minor White is credited with popularizing the method with
his "Zone System Manual," the roots of the idea may be found in the ideas of
Edward Weston and the "straight" photographers of the American school in the
1920s. Weston and his followers, including a young Ansel Adams, formed Group
f/64 to promote Weston's vision of a pure photography where the photographer
maintained absolute control over the use of materials and equipment, as well
as composition and tonal structure, to achieve results. Weston's ideas
permeated American photography in the 1930s and '40s.

Is there anybody who's still not happy? ;-)

Todd