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Giraffe Beetle, Madagascar A tiny denizen of the Eastern RainforestI hear some things can’t be shot with medium format. Wildlife moves too quickly, the equipment weighs to much for wilderness travel, ISOs are too low for aerials, and no sane person would try to use one for street photography. It ain’t necessarily so, but perhaps they’re right about the last one.

For years I shot with medium format film camera, starting with a Pentax 67, moving to a Pentax 645, finally settling on a Mamiya 7 rangefinder, a wonderful camera for the wilderness travel I used to shoot several books. I learned how to compensate for limitations inherent in the format, some still present in the current digital models.

In the film days, larger format produced higher resolution images. Now digital medium format advanced resolution even more. Simply removing the anti-alias filter, in place to suppress moiré, doubles apparent sharpness. Exposure latitude surpasses 35mm sys...

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