I'll assume your first statement (here) is a facetious joke.



Regarding your questions:

"On another thought, did you not express your opinion about Mark’s work?" I did not. I hold no "opinion", I only know what I like.

"Are you an artist?" Not even remotely close (but, I have lived with them)

"A critic? Nope, no expertise here, either ~ don't have an artistic bone in my body.

However, I do feel quite confident in my ability to discern weak and distorted egos...even from a distance.

Smaller format:
Pros--
* Faster lenses (for a given angle of view, e.g.,, a "normal". lens)
Cons--
* More diffraction (for a given f/stop)
* Fewer usable f/stops
* Less maximum depth-of-field (e.g. for a "normal" lens)
* Smaller sensor/film area = less resolution possible

Larger format:
Pros--
* More "pixels"
* Less diffraction (for a given f/stop)
* Higher resolution (for both the above reasons)
* More usable f/stops (for a given angle-of-view lens, e.g, a "normal" lens)
* Hence, capable of greater depth-of-field
Cons--
* Slower lenses (for a given type, e.g., "normal".)

Choices available right now range from 1"x1" digital sensor to 8" x 10" film
(80 times more area). Tradtiionally, these are classified as:

Sub-minature format: below 36 mm x 24 mm
Minature format: 36 mm x 24 mm
Medium format: 120 film (several different frames)
Large format: 4" x 5" and above

You pay your money, you take your choice. There is no single "best" format--
it depends on subject, lighting, location, your style and how you intend to display
or print the image. But the limitations of any given format are real: format matters.

Unfortunately, medium format digital cameras start at about $4500 with DSLRs
starting at about $5000 (body only). That's unaffordable for most photographers.
And large format digital cameras (4" x 5" and larger) are not available--sensors
that big aren't made.

By contrast, a sheet of 8" x 10" film costs about $5 and can be used in home-made
box camera: expensive per shot, but not per camera.

That home-made box camera can shoot at f/64 on its "normal" lens (about 300 mm)
-- with enormous depth-of-field. But a brand new, top-of-the-line, "full-frame" camera
can't (the image would be hopelessly unsharp, so they don't even put f/32
on the focus ring--let alone f/64).

Digital vs. 135 film has good points on both sides. But digital vs. large format film has no
points on the digital side--because there are no large format digital cameras, except in observatory
telescopes.

Large format was the predominant form of photography for over 100 years. Now it is
almost extinct. We shouldn't fool ourselves by pretending this is not a loss. The drop
in quality in landscape photography since the 1970s is very noticable.

Hi everyone its been a awhile since I’ve posted! Ok so here is my dilemma. I currently have a Canon 70D and a few lenses for it! I understand that most will not work on a FF. I own a canon 17-55, 85 1.8, 60 macro, 100 macro, 70-200L f.4 and a Tokina 11-16 which is one of my favorites. I also understand that a FF is more expensive. I though am struggling with selling most of it and then buying a used 6d Markii. This is the thing, I do a lot of fine art photography and some sports photography. I just purchased a semi expensive, or to me anyways, variable ND 10 stop filter as I am in love with long exposure work. Is it worth making the jump into this newer FF camera? I’m really liking the features on it being it hits all the boxes including swivel touch screen Bluetooth and WiFi. Will I have the sharper crisper photos that I can have printed and framed? Here are some samples of what I love.

What I get from all these responses is that right now the typical enthusiast convert moving from a DSLR to a mirrorless system is an older lady/gentleman that is out of shape and frail but optimistically looking into his/her life expectancy and the future.

The latest incarnations of full frame mirrorless cameras prove me right since they are specifically targeted at the above mentioned group of users. "Look at me!" "Aren't I young and modern and pretty and sexy?" "Yes (old fart), you can still take all those technically perfect full frame pictures at half the weight (and twice the price)!" "And you won't have to worry breaking a hip lugging all your old, outdated and heavy DSLR gear!" "So come right now (you might be dead later!) and spend your hard earned retirement money on me and you too can be young and sexy again!"