Comparisons Archives - Medium Format Photography

Medium format Film Camera Longevity & Repairability

Ken — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:37:17 +0000

A Deep Dive into the Mechanics — and Longevity — of the Hasselblad 500 Series, Pentax 6×7/67, and Mamiya RB67 Anyone who has spent serious time with medium format cameras has a story about mechanical failure. For many Pentax 6×7 users, that story involves the film advance lever — a deceptively simple-looking mechanism that conceals...

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Flatbed Scanner vs. Camera Scanning: Which Is Better for Medium Format Film?

Ken — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:36:42 +0000

If you shoot medium format film, you’ve probably wrestled with this question: should you scan your negatives with a flatbed scanner or use a digital camera? I’ve been going back and forth on this for a while now, so I decided to put my Epson V850 head-to-head against my Fuji GFX 100s in a real-world...

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Inkjet Vs. Darkroom Prints

Ken — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:32:35 +0000

This is question I’ve always pondered. I’ll never stop shooting film, but do I need to enlarge in a darkroom as well? Is scanning and printing a better option? A scanned negative can retain the total gradations and colors I get from film, but also gives me a digital master that can’t be lost, scratched,...

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Why Does Medium Format Film Look So Much Better Than Digital?

Ken — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:02:25 +0000

There’s something unmistakable about a well-exposed medium format negative. When you hold a 6×6 or 6×7 transparency up to the light, or pull a contact print from the wash, you’re looking at something digital simply cannot replicate. It’s not nostalgia talking—there are real, measurable reasons why medium format film produces images with a distinct aesthetic...

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GFX Vs. Leica M

Ken — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:38:49 +0000

The above image is my Leica M11-p next to the GFX 100s Search Fujifilm GFX Cameras at KEH.com How I got here is an interesting journey. I confess that some of it was gear acquisition syndrome. This desire of always chasing the highest image quality I could find. Originally, when I was primarily a Nikon...

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