If we get back to the link provided by Edmund in the first post,
http://www.pebbleplace.com/Personal/Medium...G_THE_FUND.html , I cannot find any direct comparisons there either, just a lot of outrageous statement such as:
Do I like the Canon 1Ds Mark III? No. In consideration of its price and file quality relative to a Canon 1Ds Mark II, the Mark III is a under-performer. Adding insult to injury, the P25 kicks the 1Ds3’s proverbial butt. Frankly, I think the Canon 5D and Canon 1Ds Mark II put up a better fight. The Canon 1Ds Mark III requires copious amounts of sharpening and its dynamic range is about 2/3 of a stop less than the 1Ds Mark II’s.
Full-frame sensors such as the Canon 1Ds Mark III are years away from matching medium format sensors. If Canon continues to offer more megapixels while reducing pixel performance, this gap will only widen.
Fighting words, eh? Pity there are no direct comparisons. This notion that you need to take thousands of images over a considerable period of time in order to get a sense of the image superiority of one camera compared to another, has its place. It might be the best approach. Unfortunately, such an approach tends to muddle issues of personal shooting habits and working style, not only with regard to the way the equipment is used, but also with regard to the way the images are processed.
There is something very revealing about the comparisons made so far which have appeared on this site. They tend to give the impression that the photographer's subconscious took over as soon as he/she switched to the 35mm equipment, in order to ensure that the 35mm result was not good. There seemed to be a complete inability to get the most out of the 35mm equipment and use it as though that were the only camera available and one simply had to do the best job one could.
I'll give a few examples from memory. I might not have got all the details precisely correct, but from memory, the first comparison was between the 1Ds3, P21 and ZD.
No attempt appeared to have been made to match FoVs. They were way out. The same f stops were used on all cameras and the focussing was different.
The next comparison between the P21 and 1Ds3 displayed huge differences in the way the images had been processed. The P21 image was bright and contrasty and the 1Ds3 image flat and dull. The same f stop had been used for both shots (F13 from memory) thus depriving the 1Ds3 of the greater resolution the smaller sensor needs, whilst at the same time needlessly giving it greater DoF than the other shot.
In another example, the 35mm shot was of a lady's face showing her with incomplete make-up in poor lighting and with dull image processing. The DB shot was of the same lady fully made up, better lighting and the usual highlight glint in the centre of the pupil.
Since I know you guys are experienced photographers and not this incompetent, I tend to draw the conclusion that either your subconscious is at work protecting your conscious from unpalable truths, or you just don't give a damn.
On the other hand, it could simply be the case that, after many thousands of shots getting used to MF equipment, you are simply unable to make a sudden switch to 35mm. You need to take a few thousand shots first to get used to that 35mm equipment, or at least remember how it used to be.
