Photographers' gobbledygook can be confusing! This photography dictionary will help you find the real significance behind that jargon.
Zone system
A system of 'relating exposure readings to tonal values' in picture-taking, development and printing, popularized by the American photographer Ansel Adams.
Zoom
A Lens which is constructed to allow a continuously variable focal length; in effect, this gives you many lenses of different focal lengths in one unit. (e.g. 80-200 mm).
(see Focal length, Standard lens, Tele & Wide)
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