Yeah, back in the fifties and sixties I was into the zone system in a big way. Sometimes I even modified the developer according to Ansel's recommendations in his book in order to corral a wild dynamic range. But with digital I don't have to go around with my Weston meter, checking brightnesses. I can go for a middle reading on the camera's meter in matrix mode, bracket 9 frames in burst mode starting 5 stops high and ending 5 stops low, put the result into Photomatix or Nik's HDR Pro, after about a minute make some final tweaks, and end up with something better than I ever could get with film. It turns a several hour job into a several minute job, and you don't have to dump the pans and wash everything out when you're finished.