Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Quality versus Medium Format
From: Tarek Charara <tarek.charara@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:49:33 +0200

le 1/08/01 2:59, Mark Rabiner à mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com a écrit :

> Mxsmanic wrote:
>> <Snip> 
>> 
>> MF certainly provides potentially greater image quality than 35mm, but that
>> does
>> not mean that the difference can actually be seen under most viewing
>> conditions.
>> If the difference were so consistently obvious and large, 35mm would not be
>> the
>> leading format today.
> 
> Often MF is used because of it's impact on the light table. How it looks
> mounted
> in those black cardboard presentation things.
> And it's ability to be checked with a Polaroid of a size you can see.
> Or the exact aspect ration of it's shape is what is wanted. Squares for
> instance
> to name an extreme example.
> 6x7 another. They just like the shape of the thing.
> The way it ends up printing or reproducing can be almost an afterthought.
> Not that I don't appreciate it. I very much do.
> 
> 
And they really go WOW when they see 4x5" on the light table...

Tarek