Is medium format better?

There’s no doubting medium format’s quality, but do you really need it, given its cost?

Choosing the best camera for landscape photography is usually a compromise between price and quality. Fortunately, modern cameras are so good that any 20MP+ DSLR or mirrorless camera purchased in the last five years is capable of producing superlative landscape photographs – as long as you don’t want to make huge prints. And if you do want to make huge prints, stitching frames together can capture the extra pixels required to make highly detailed files. The ultimate machine for landscape photography, in terms of detail and fidelity, is a medium-format digital camera. Models from Phase One, Hasselblad, Fujifilm and Pentax vary widely in price. You can find a 50-megapixel medium-format camera system for much the same price as a top professional DSLR, or you can spend ten times that amount…

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