Fair comment Paul, i agree that 35mm film has its limitations, and as we both agree 6x7 & 5x4 film still have a place.
Gary.
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Though I primarly work in commerce, I've never felt that a camera should be used primarly because it captured more detail, either film or now in digital.
Some cameras feel and work right for the moment and sometimes that moment has virtually nothing to do what is "right" or wrong.
There is beautiful work by Art Kane, Helmut Newton, Guy Bordin and Phillip Dixon that was primarly shot 35mm though all of those artists would work in different formats.
Consequently many of thier contemporaries shot with 10x8 and 2/14 square cameras.
For all of those artists in those times, it was more of an artistic interpretation of how they wanted to portray the world, rather than if more eye lash detail was available.
Sometimes it just happened to be the only camera they owned, so that was the camera format they used.
When I have time I love to go into the Leica Gallery on Broadway. There is always a collection of past work, usually photojournalists and it always has a ring of truth to it and a timeless look, though in close examination the focus is usually off, the detail wouldn't rival even a $400 dslr, though their is a charm and a look to those images have that today's uber sharp, maximum detail, perfect color, and highlights under 255 would never portray.
Maybe it's the availability of the web, or maybe it's just our obsession to prove what's right and what's wrong, but honestly to produce a beautiful image either moving or still, the camera matters but not in ways most of us think.
There is this exhaustive thread that rears it's head on all of these forums comparing 35mm to medium format and regardless of the replies, the downloadable raw files, the 100% crop comparisions of proof, the subject pops up again and again, to the point it actually is pointless to read the replies because they are just a mirror image of the same thread 2, 3, 4, 24 weeks prior.
I've held a camera in my hand most of my adult life and I can promise you that the only camera that matters is the one you feel good about.
The rest is just numbers on a chart.
JR