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cameron2 wrote:

If thinner DOF is your target, you shouldn't compromise and get m43 or APSC or 35mm; you should get a Pentax 845 or a Leica S (etc.)

That is the thing. Those who want thinner acceptable depth of field can't make compromise and get 35mm but they need to invest to pseudo-medium format.

Just in few years we actually might see a real medium format cameras, with 6x7cm sensors instead these pseudo ones with 53.7x40x4mm and that is not even worth of 6x4.5 what was consider as "crop format" among medium format cameras (film being 60x45mm).

One when we finally get the 6x9cm sensors (60x90mm) the landscape photographers will move on that arena and every lasting 35mm fan will be defending their gear by being "lighter, cheaper, smaller".

And there is always the one happy man (Mitchell Feinberg) who is saving lots of money and time shooting with his two 8x10 Large Format digital backs...

iPhone next to 8x10 FULL FRAME digital back.

And as funny it can sound, He got that just to replace the polaroids. And captures the final image on film....

Format ratio 15 when compared to 35mm sensor.... The format ratio 2 between 4/3" and 35mm doesn't sound so meaningful anymore, doesn't it?

Having a 60 times larger surface than 35mm sensor has, is the nightmare to every 35mm fan who wants to talk about DOF and "Total light gathering" being the points to own the "full frame".