People tend to prefer bigger versions of anything, from houses to food portions. But technology doesn’t always fall into that pattern. More specifically, talking about cameras, it’s an open question whether medium-format cameras that cost a fortune are really worth the money. What can they do that more affordable camera counterparts cannot? In today’s video, landscape photographer Gavin Hardcastle from Fototripper debates this topic and compares how the Sony a6000, an APS-C camera, compares with the Fuji GFX100S medium-format camera.
Hardcastle’s discussion is more result-oriented, which might interest some of you. He does not discuss features as much. He is more concerned with how the images from each camera compares against each other.
To get an idea of whether people can really see the difference between images taken with those two cameras online, he held a survey on social media. When the results came in, it was clear the differences were not evident.
However, the medium-format camera starts dominating the comparison game when we pixel-peek the images. As you can see in the video above, the amount of detail, sharpness and detail recoverability in the medium-format image is unmatched. This matters for professionals who are printing their work—but not so much for anyone whose images stay on the internet.
“If you post your work primarily on social media—if it never gets printed, if it only stays in the digital realm—quite honestly, a camera of this caliber is a bit of a waste of money.”
A fantastic point that Hardcastle raises is that, if you’re someone who shoots just to post online, you’d be better off investing your budget in better lenses or more travel opportunities.
Be sure to watch the video till the end for some great insights. If you are thinking of investing in a medium-format camera, it’ll be really worthwhile.
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