While not medium format, I really enjoy contact printing with my 8×10 view camera. There’s something special about making a direct print without any kind of enlarging, nor scanning process, and the level of detail is astonishing! This is a portrait my wife took of me. I often use the quality of an 8×10 print as my holy grail of what I try to obtain from medium format. While I know it’s not obtainable, it’s something to strive for nonetheless. These contact prints don’t suffer the issues of a scanned medium format negative because there’s no enlarging of dust particles or scratches.
