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7/1/2025, 1:32:48 PM
>>4441476
I'm afraid you got played for a fool.
Sensor/film size makes an enormous difference because all of your noise and optical aberrations, all else being equal, get smaller the larger your medium is. That's why studio professionals always shot medium format as a minimum (but ideally large format), with 35mm only for personal works or photojournalism where quickness was more important. You can see the difference very plainly in some collections - for example, Yoshihiko Ueda's works for Suntory, shot on 8x10 (on-site, posed) and 35mm (b-roll, personal snaps). Pic rel.
With digital sensors, the difference is somewhat less pronounced, because the size difference between M43 and FF is a lot smaller than the difference between FF and 8x10 and M43 sensor resolutions have reached full frame (25MP). Now the differences come in rendering style (for M43: flat, worse color gradation, subject separation) and technical quirks like pixel pitch, lower DR. As such the only benefit M43 ever had was compactness, which is now moot when APS-C bodies can be just as tiny.
I'm afraid you got played for a fool.
Sensor/film size makes an enormous difference because all of your noise and optical aberrations, all else being equal, get smaller the larger your medium is. That's why studio professionals always shot medium format as a minimum (but ideally large format), with 35mm only for personal works or photojournalism where quickness was more important. You can see the difference very plainly in some collections - for example, Yoshihiko Ueda's works for Suntory, shot on 8x10 (on-site, posed) and 35mm (b-roll, personal snaps). Pic rel.
With digital sensors, the difference is somewhat less pronounced, because the size difference between M43 and FF is a lot smaller than the difference between FF and 8x10 and M43 sensor resolutions have reached full frame (25MP). Now the differences come in rendering style (for M43: flat, worse color gradation, subject separation) and technical quirks like pixel pitch, lower DR. As such the only benefit M43 ever had was compactness, which is now moot when APS-C bodies can be just as tiny.
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