Lou.Lou Jost wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:02 pmI don't believe there is such thing as "medium format look" though. Not to mention how difficult (and expensive) it would be to work in a wide magnification range with a MF camera.
I agree that some aspects of the alleged "medium format look" don't exist. But other aspects (DR and smoothness of color gradations) are as real as the corresponding difference between a full frame photo and an MFT photo. Of course you are right that medium format would be an expensive solution for macro work, but that's exactly why it is so exciting to be able to get that degree of DR and subtlety of color gradations, without any additional investment, from our existing cameras.
I may be biased as I used to do 4x5 large-format landscapes and macro, and those photos just blew away 35mm film. I love immersing myself in a photo's details. I definitely don't buy the common claim that there is a standard print-observing distance which makes fine detail unnecessary in large prints.
nothing wrong with looking for the highest possible quality/resolution. But IMO, in reality there are very few scenarios where the difference is actually appreciable and worth it. If we talked traditional, single shot photography, it would be no-brainer, but pixel-shift stacking implies quite a lot of time, storage and processing power. I actually built a new, pretty decent PC because of the pixel-shift stacking (5900X, 2080-Ti, Samsung B-die RAM @3733. 14-14-14-28, NVMe drives, etc..), which I will most likely end up selling losing money, since I don't really need it anymore.
Again, single-shot photography is not quite comparable to stacking. MF cameras have their "magic" and their advantages, but they are far from being he most suitable cameras for photomacrography stacking. Pixel-shift is pretty good alternative to MF, but there are very few scenarios where the difference is actually appreciable and worthwhile.
That being said, I change cameras every time I get bored and I get bored quite often so please don't judge me if my next camera has piexl-shift