You are supposed to use the tone equalizer module instead of the zone system module now. According to the manual, zone system is deprecated.
This really disappoints me. The zone system is pretty easy for beginners to pick up. (I've only used DT since August.) The 2D image of the different zones in the picture is really handy and I don't think it appears in any other modules. The tone equalizer is much harder to get up to speed with. It lacks a 2D zone image. It only has crosshairs that correspond to a hard to understand contrast mask, not the zone. Usually(?) in the dark regions, changes to the EV levels don't have any effect if you are outside of the mask's range of levels. Even if you optimize the mask. Very frustrating. You can kinda match the zone system results sometimes but after a much longer time of fiddling. It just is not a more generalized substitute for the zone system. They behave differently. I'd appreciate it if the developers restored the zone system. Tanya Riseman ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
