Having looked at a few of Zuckerman's books there is a common thread: enjoy the pictures, rich technical data, but don't expect to be able to repeat the results with this alone. That is Zuckerman shows you a picture of a person outside a door and lists the camera, lens, film and any tricks for metering (Mamiya RZ67 II, 250mm lens at 1/60 f/4.5, Velvia film. The information is useful to a point, but without a more extended discussion on each image it is difficult for the beginner to recreate it unless he/she wants to mimic the exact same shot (who would do that?). The book offers little for the experienced photographer because he/she already knows most of these things, and so it is more for the general ideas and photographs you would buy this book. Having said that, it is one of the better books Zuckerman published, is in hardcover and the image quality is outstanding. He has chapters on why metered fail (1), modes of metering (2), finding middle grey (3) etc. Probably understanding how to use a meter is the most important part with a camera like the medium format one Zuckerman used as it does not have a built in light metre and is necessary for many of the images.
My recommendation is to purchase this Zuckerman book over the others because at least you will have a good discussion on metering (could be more informed but is ok), will see some examples and can enjoy the pictures. The pictures Zucerman created are time consuming, technically 'perfect' and have good composition, but are not easily duplicated without years of practice and/or similar equipment. Keep in mind he i using 120 medium format film, specially Provia 100F and Velvia, and the characteristics of those films are not easily duplicated - if at all in photoshop. Ektachrome 400 is discontinued, so it is just not available and the 100E version today is different. This book gets 4 stars because the technical aspects of the pictures saves it but is just too short and the compositional component needs to be amplified.
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