We created a cool table after an insight into Netscape's table rendering capabilities. It requires that you use a browser capable of displaying a background color inside of an individual table cell. The table has 256 shades of gray displayed in such a way that you should be able to use them to adjust your monitor. We are really happy with the table and will be using the general effect to render other information to several places in the website. The table should stand as an extra accurate standard since it represents each of the 256 grays which your monitor probably displays.
Most monitors tend to be adjusted with too much contrast.
I recommend you adjust yours so that there are about as many unreadable grays on the highlight end as on the shadow end of the scale. Beyond that, try to balance adding more visible grays by decreasing contrast with showing more numbers in the middle of the scale by increasing contrast. Or just futz with it to your liking. Zone System Frequently Asked Questions section redesigned from scratch. We have recently learned to use the awesome Userland Frontier software to manage websites and I am now in the process of retrofitting the Cicada Photography Resource into that method of site management.