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rafe b rafebATspeakeasy.net wrote:
As photographers, we're gatherers of light.
Big cameras gather more light than small ones,
and it almost always shows in the end, if you
care enough to look closely. This applies in a
totally fair, just, equitable and non-discriminatory
manner to both film and digital cameras.

Except that if you fix subject distance, field of view, and depth of field,
the total amount of light across the frame tends to be more or constant
(independent of the frame size).

Larger formats can 'store' more light. But once you find a system that is
big enough to handle the amount of light you've got, there is no point of
selecting even bigger systems.


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