i cant read it again to check if my impression was wrong.... because its removed.
All of these categories are just bloody silly. On the dslr section (which I think mentions "shooting gear", people talk about software, firmware, monitors, computers and it doesn't bother anyone because it's just knowledge.
If you put everything in the exact place some self proclaimed hall monitor wanted it, you'd never find anything and the conversations would never evolve.
Ranier, back in the RG days you posted at length on the Kodak 14 or whatever that camera was called and nobody cared, because it was useful information and stimulate discussion. I don't remember anybody saying it should go into the 35m section or the almost as good as medium format heading.
Let's be realistic about this, for a lot of photographers that own medium format back(s) nearly to a person they have a Canon or Nikon and do a lot of cross use. That's the plan . . . right . . . to use your cameras.
Discussions like this on any public forum just forces people underground or to leave because nobody wants their name associated with some kind of argument or negative blowback. Google has a 7 year memory.
We can keep this going and sooner or later it just all turns bad and everyone leaves or goes private.
Like it or not, they're are a lot of very good photographers that would never be open to sharing their experience with anyone. Do you have any idea why you can't go onto some of the world's best retoucher's sites and see images? It's because the photographers have demanded that the world never see the original images. Do you know the number of photographers that retouch light reflections out of eyes so nobody can tell the source, or have assistants and crew sign nda's so they can't tell anyone how, what, where, when and why a photographer works?
Feel lucky that someone that shoots as well and as prolific as gwtif shares with anyone, in public or private and don't pat anyone on the back for sending him/her away.
Also get real about this medium format vs. 35mm thing. In digital there really is no format difference like we had with film. in fact if you wanted to name this section correctly it would be "the almost medium format section".
Let's also get real about what photography is about and the camera is like number 22 on the list of importance.
Ranier, your a good photographer and you and I both know that you could shoot film, 35mm, 645, a cambo, artech or any camera and get the results you want.
The size of the hole in the back of the camera really doesn't make that much difference.
A lot of camera makers would probably love it if this forum only was full of medium format fanboys that sung their praise, but honestly for every manufacturer that monitors these forums, if it was all just a PR section they'd never learn anything and their participation would eventually be limited.
Since most of us are in the advertising business we know that the only way to control a message is to take out an ad.