Response to 6X6 obsolete??

There is a great deal more to good photography than the physical perfection of the negative. It is not the size of the film, but the configuration of the camera and the attitude of the photographer which determine whether an approach is valid. With his 8x10 view camera Nicholas Nixon makes incredible pictures typical of 35mm workers. Sebastiao Salgado makes pictures with a 35mm which are displayed in huge sizes, much larger than most VC photographers would even dream of. Ansel Adams and Brett Weston both switched to 6x6 SLRs in their final years, producing pictures which are virtually indistinguishable from their earlier work. To paraphrase Mae West (or Gloria Swanson, or one of those gals), "It ain't the size that matters."

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