Stefan Engström
(K=24473) - Comment Date 7/14/2005
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Medium format (MF) film gives you larger negatives and therefore enables you to make bigger enlargments compared to what you can get away with using 35 mm film - grain in particular becomes an issue with large enlargments. There are also other perks to shooting MF, many cameras use film magazines that can be exchanged mid-roll, some systems have wonderul lenses (true for 35 mm cameras too of course). On the downside is that the cost per shot escalates compared to 35 mm. If you are new to photography and want to shoot film I would definitely recommend that you learn with a 35 mm camera and then see if you want to dig a little deeper later, maybe even going to large format.
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Mitch Gleason
(K=26) - Comment Date 7/15/2005
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Thanks for clearing this mystery up for me!!
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Tony Howell
(K=163) - Comment Date 10/4/2005
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Try your local Adult Educational establishment they should run photography courses, but that will involve some effort, sorry.
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Howard Berman
(K=5) - Comment Date 1/11/2006
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I use medium format for portraits. It produces finer grain and better skin tone for portraits and it allows for much larger prints. I routinely go to 16" x 20" to 20" x 24" prints; and I have printed satisfactory images to 30" x 40".
Large prints get more referrals, and I try my best to sell the largest prints I can.
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