I am in the process of transfering my knowledge of the traditional zone system into digital techniques.....

In theory it shouldn't be all that much different, but in reality it is VERY different. The basics are all still there and pretty much the same, but getting in a little deeper things start to get tricky...A ccd is more like shooting transparency film, so right off the bat things get flipped around all backwards....expose for the shadows...nope expose for the highlights and develop for the shadows?.....what about color? f/stop increments in digital are different than film....crap there go all the nice even 1 stop,2 stop,1/2 stop adjustments.....Expansion and contraction in development?,,,,,there is no development anymore with digital....so now I am also working on precise Photoshop actions for this purpose....of course it depends on the camera you are using......

Histograms are nice.....still it gets way more involved to recreate that pre-visualised image in your head....

This is gonna take some time......Whew!