[Leica] How I plan to get my M9 while keeping both kidneys...

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> My impression is that in terms of quality currently available cropped
> format digital is better in most conditions that 35mm film, "Full
> format" digital better than MF and MF digital than 5x4 (4x5 in USA). I
> say in most conditions since I am sure experts can come up with
> circumstances favouring film.
> I would not worry too much about available formats nowadays. if 35mm
> film was good enough for what you are doing, the latest 4/3 digital
> would equally suffice, if you used a Hasselblad, try a Nikon D3x, and
> for landscapes some specialists are going MF digital, though the
> technical requirements to achieve the superior potential are exigent,
> as per the links I posted the other month.
> Sure bigger format is better as it always has been, but the relative
> requirements have changed.
> The Minox with its 8x11 mm bit of film is dire compared to P&S digital
> with sensors smaller than this, despite its precision.
> Frank


Frank all those photographers you have known all these years from the races
as that's what they shoot for a living that you are in touch with how many
are not shooting full frame? Is this something that you would be aware of?

Mark William Rabiner