35mm vs Medium Format Film | Which is BEST for You?

I love medium format but I don't get to shoot with it enough because my RB67 is like a fat brick. Then I prefer to take the 35mm with a fine grain film like ektar. there you have with the right lens also a ton of resolution. :D
Your tutorials are really good every time.

i like medium format but i shoot not enough with my yashica 124, it's more easy and compact to carry a 35mm nikon FM or my canon 7

Those glasses 👌🏾

I stopped using my MF 1.5 yrs ago for 35mm. Never regretted it. I love the 35mm look. I don’t shoot to ”copy“ the landscape, I shoot to create with it. I find the MF details distracting. 35mm looks like paintings sometimes, which I very much prefer. Am a big fan of pictorialism (nice soft look).

MF sometimes look too smooth. Not for me.

Medium format is still hidden for me because I don’t have a medium format camera. But I want to buy one. Choosing between Yashica D and Yashica Mat 124/G. The last one is more expensive, so I think I am gonna stop on first one) But I will never leave 135 type of film just because there are planty of great titles, including motion picture film which is not avaliable in medium format as I know. It is awesome to shoot all formats 😅

I don't make a choice, I use both of 35mm and Mediu Format. 35mm for streetphotography, and 120mm for portrait, landscape photography

what bag are rocking near the end of the vid pls..? @11.15 🙏

120 all the way 😎 great vid as always bro

Hey, Reimann thanks for another great video. I love Medium Format, the quality is fantastic, but walking around with a bulky camera is not as good as a 35mm camera. As always, this is a matter of preference when you are choosing the tool to produce your work.

I'm a huge fan of 4x5 for portraits!

I shoot 35mm black and white for street. I shoot color and Black and White medium format and 4x5 large format for architecture, landscape and still photography. My 35mm setup is Nikon F2, F3, F5 and S2. My medium format is Bronica SQ, Mamiya C330 and a Rolleiflex 2.8D. I use a Toyo 4x5 large format as well.

Hey great video, but you have a bunch of options in 35mm. Half frame, folding cameras with zone focusing, toy cameras/point and shoots, pinhole, panoramic(like the horizon T or widelux etc.). All based in form factor, shooting stuff and difference in film usage, how to use 35mm differently. I'd personally say 35mm is more accessible and has a lot more body and lens options than medium format. I love them both though. Also, sorry, not trying to put a stick in the spoke, I just think people should know it's not just SLRs and rangefinders for 35.

So about scanning…. You’ll get much better results with a digital camera and a macro lens. The consumer level flatbeds, and this includes the high dollar Epsons are just awful. The optics just don’t resolve. As a rule of thumb, 4x enlargements on this is about the limit. Okay for 6x7 for 8x10 print. Not ideal from 135 to the same print size.

I use Nikon CS9000 and CS5000 film scanners. These were the benchmark for enthusiastic amateurs from the early 2000s. Next step up is $25k for Flextights. The Nikons are _good_.; the 80MP files from a Panasonic G9 is slightly better. 10x enlargement for 135 from both can be decent.

They both work for me.

I used 35mm cameras primarily for reportage, street, candids, social events, sports, action events, macro, close-up, fashion, wildlife, individual portraits, real estate, architecture, astronomy, microscopy, underwater, and still life. Over the decades, I have used the following 35mm cameras:
Leica M1 and M6 with 21/35/90mm lenses
Pentax Spotmatic SLRs with 28/35/50/105/135/200/300mm
Nikon F, F2, F3, F4. EM, N70, N2000, L35, and Nikonos III with 2 dozen lenses that ranged in focal length from 14mm to 1000mm.

I used medium format to shoot weddings, individual portraits, group portraits, products, social events, landscapes, still life, and architecture.
My favorite medium format camera was the Mamiya C3, C22, and C220 TLR with 55/90/180mm lenses.
I currently use the Mamiya RB67 SLR with 50/90/180mm lenses.
I also use a Fuji 6x7cm medium format rangefinder with a fixed 90mm normal lens and a Fuji 6x9cm medium format rangefinder with a fixed 65mm wide-angle lens.

I use large format to shoot landscapes, architecture, still life, group portraits, and products.
I use a Calumet mono-rail view camera with 4x5 inch sheet film or 120 roll-film.
I have 135/90/65/47mm lenses.

110 is best 🙃 lol jk I shoot a lot of 35mm because of convenience and I mostly shoot for personal stuff so there’s no real need for extra quality~ but I do enjoy shooting medium format from time to time, the look I get with medium format bokeh is pretty distinct and I love it (not large format levels of course, but medium format is at least more convenient 😂), also, TLRs are cool 😆

Thanks for putting my Street Candy in the background ☺️

Reimann! Not "best." Better. 35mm and 120 should not be strictly compared. They each address different needs.

It's much pleasure trying out all formats and a wide range of camera types as well. Because everything analogue is'old', the prices remain moderate compared to current technology. I owned such an Olympus Pen F as shown here – 35mm half format 18/24 – got as a minimum 72 shots per 36exp roll and up to 147 exp per lford HP5/72 roll;-)) With an Olympus OM-adapter I used fine OM-Zuiko lenses with crop factor 1.4x, so with 50mm according to 70mm portrait perspective. I loved the square medium format 6x6 with Yashicamat124G, Rolleiflex SL66, Hasselblad 500 C/M, Kowa Six, and Norita (Graflex) 6x6 – the latter in design and function like an enlarged 35mm SLR camera. Handheld outdoors even the Pentax 6x7 is great, and a Makina 67 is as comfortable to use as a Leica and even just as quiet. Anyway, today I only alternate between 35mm Nikon SLRs and half-format digital Nikons – for me the most favourable way, because I can use the same Nikkor lenses on both systems and have owned them before 50 years and more; that's sustainable and economically satisfactory;-))) @philosimot

2 words... size matters. And the bigger your camera the bigger, well, it gets bigger. I had to have reduction surgery!

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