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Response to Can I get medium format quality from 35mm?

from Peter Olsson (Peter.Olsson@sb.luth.se)
I wonder if the Dutch photographer that Lot refers to is Erwin Puts, a Leica M photographer? I have read about a test he did exactly the way Lot describes. He used the Leica on f/5,6 and his friend used the Hasselblad on f/8,0. Erwin Puts seems to be quite a trustworthy person, and from what I read the prints were presented to experienced photographers to see if they could detect any difference at all.

I'm still surprised about his test. Of course, b&w prints from 35 mm negatives can be very, very nice, but I always thought they had another "look" than prints from equal 120 film negatives. My Tri-X pictures with Hasselblad looks better than my Tmax 100 pictures from Nikon; sharper, creamier, clearer... but I have seen prints from Leica cameras that has something extra, so perhaps it is true that there is a certain Leica look to b&w pictures which make them resemble medium format?

(posted 9333 days ago)

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