Re: [Leica] Leica Quality versus Medium Format

["Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>]

George writes:

> Loupes?  Hardly necessary.  You have to be wearing
> fogged glasses not to tell the difference between
> 6x7 and 35mm at 20x24.  Ditto for 16x20 and,
> frankly, ditto for 8x10.

Not in terms of resolution.  At normal viewing distances for an 8x10, even 40
lp/mm is difficult to distinguish visually.

> If this were the case, you can imagine that
> a lot more magazine covers, to say nothing of
> fine art prints, etc., etc., etc., would be shot
> with the far greater convenience of 35mm.

Most of them already are, when they are not being shot digitally.

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.