Zone VI Exposure Record Notebook??

[rmann]

Anyone know of a source for a replacement loose leaf binder for the Zone VI exposure record sheets. Six rings - evenly spaced - pages are about 3" x 5" - mine has broken beyond repair. I have spent a few hours with Google and have not found any binder small enough for the page. I would like to go with a loose leaf if I could, rather than binding them on my own.

 

[Lee L]

Levenger specializes in this type of product. Would this do?

http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATES/PRODUCT/Product.asp?Params=category=16-902|level=2-3|pageid=5391|Special=fer

Lee

 

[payral]

I still have a new original red one with record sheets I never used.
I can sale it for the original old price + postoffice charges.

 

[Curt]

I have one of the red notebooks, it still has the testing information and some pages in it. I think Morgan and Morgan was the publisher though I would have to look at it. They were really a nice way to record the entire exposure information about a scene. I hope you have some luck finding one. That's one that should be reissued as a new crop of photographers who want to use the Zone System would certainly find it valuable.

 

[George Collier]

Does anyone know where refill pages can be had? I don't need them at the moment, but one day...

Another alternative is a program for the Palm Pilot devices. I think I saw it on a web site, maybe BTZS.

 

[Earl Dunbar]

If you have a sample page, just recreate it in a word processing or page makeup program and print them.

 

[Curt]

I couldn't find any pages or notebooks so the best thing to do is to copy the pages and print out a bunch and get a new notebook that isn't the 6 hole type. I think they did that 6 hole odd spaced binder so it would be difficult to get any additional sheets except from them.

Start your own exposure record similar to the red book one. You can get hole punches or pre punched pages and do your own layout.

 

[juan]

Ansel Adams reproduced a similar sheet in the 1980s version of The Negative and gives permission to reproduce it. I printed a bunch of them on 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch paper - that's a standard binder size. That size sheet gave me plenty of room for writing other information - location, camera movements, etc., and room for details about printing. I'd remove the sheet from the binder and keep it with the negative. It's a wonderful thing to have when you're reprinting a 20-year old negative.
juan

 

[rmann]

Thanks for the input - I decided to take up Philippe's offer on an original binder.

I still have not found a source for something that will fit in a shirt pocket with looseleaf rings which is what I liked about the original size notebook. Some daytime planners are close in size but much thicker and a little larger - just enough so they won't fit in a pocket. Reprinting pages would be easy enough and getting them bound with a spiral wire or plastic loop seems to be easy. I just wonder why no one seems to make small looseleaf binders?

 

[Keith Pitman]

Staples, Office Max, Office Depot.

 

[rmann]

Staples, Office Max, Office Depot.

I appreciate the help - tried all three of these stores - smallest thing they have is a day planner binder and they run about 4+ inches by 6+ inches and are about 3/4 inch thick - which makes them too big for a shirt pocket and quite a bit heavier, also.

 

[Keith Pitman]

I bought one within the last year at one of these stores.