Agreed! There is still the potential for crappy MF stuff to be posted. Anyone remember the Rev from a few months ago and the dozens of shots of his poodle?
-J
It's silly stuff like this is why this section runs off so many good photographers.
All this specific naming tells me is how far removed this specific forum is from the real world.
In fact if this was the real world and you went through a magazine stand (real or virtual) and ripped out every image that was shot with a Canon or Nikon you'd have a dumpster full of photographs representing about 100 million dollars of production a month.
Actually you'd only rip them out if you could tell the difference.
In the real world, nobody views or commissions a photograph really cares about the format of camera or puts the worth of the photograph on the camera brand.
In days past when we viewed images on a lightbox or on contact sheets, bigger was better, or easier for the client to edit, but in digital, it's all big on the computer and in Nikon/Canon/Sony land, it's all detailed on the camera lcd.
Go on set, shoot any medium format non tethered, then shoot a Nikon D3x and show both camera's lcds to the client. To a person they will point at the Nikon and say use the big camera.
Shoot tethered and in the real world large format is a 30" Apple Cinema Display. Camera format is whatever you set the image crop to and the size of the viewing window.
All of this is just silly, ironic, boring stuff and now is not the time to start limiting who can view what images. The expensive camera makers are having more than though financial times, even Canon and Nikon are showing huge losses and still photography is becoming marginalized by the hour.
Guy Bourdin (to name just one photographer) shot most of his later work with an old Nikon FM and lenses that rattled (and no I'm not comparing anyone here to Guy), but it's crazy to think that if Guy was still with us and kind enough to share his photography and technique, he would be banned from showing photographs in this section.
So if shooting "35mm" means your going to get fleas then your going miss lying down with a lot of interesting dogs.
In fact some of the most vocal proponents of "larger Sensor Photography" are shooting second and third generation cameras. If they really believed bigger made better photographs they'd all buy a P65+ the day it came out.
It doesn't really matter.
B
