645 format vs. 35mm???

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MattKing

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heespharm;1140460In my [I said:
personal[/I] view there isn't much difference between 35mm and 6x4.5... It's a 1cm or 10mm height difference which is about a 20% difference where I feel I can use slower films and proper processing to make up that difference

35mm Vs 6x7 is almost 1.8 or double the size... Now that's a difference... No amount of processing in my ability or film speed could make up for that large of a difference

Just my 2 cents

FWIW:

A 135 negative is 24x36mm = 864 square mm

A 6x4.5 negative is 42x56mm = 2352 square mm

A 6x7 negative is 56x69.5mm = 3892 square mm.

So the ratios are:

a) 6x4.5 is 2.72 times the size of 135;
b) 6x7 is 4.50 times the size of 135; and
c) 6x7 is 1.65 times the size of 6x4.5.

All medium format sizes are taken from the manuals for Mamiya equipment.
 

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hahah oh yeah... forgot about them sprockets... what if your shooting the sprockets??? meh your completely correct! ;-P
 

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FWIW:

A 135 negative is 24x36mm = 864 square mm

A 6x4.5 negative is 42x56mm = 2352 square mm

A 6x7 negative is 56x69.5mm = 3892 square mm.

So the ratios are:

a) 6x4.5 is 2.72 times the size of 135;
b) 6x7 is 4.50 times the size of 135; and
c) 6x7 is 1.65 times the size of 6x4.5.

All medium format sizes are taken from the manuals for Mamiya equipment.

woah nice math... yeah ur correct... I was only considering height of frame.. but if you talking surface area there's a load of difference!!!..:D
 

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FWIW:

A 135 negative is 24x36mm = 864 square mm

A 6x4.5 negative is 42x56mm = 2352 square mm

A 6x7 negative is 56x69.5mm = 3892 square mm.

So the ratios are:

a) 6x4.5 is 2.72 times the size of 135;
b) 6x7 is 4.50 times the size of 135; and
c) 6x7 is 1.65 times the size of 6x4.5.

All medium format sizes are taken from the manuals for Mamiya equipment.

How about those math compared to large formats [4x5 and larger]?
 

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woah nice math... yeah ur correct... I was only considering height of frame.. but if you talking surface area there's a load of difference!!!..:D
Yeah, and though 135 is about 20% smaller than 645 in each linear dimension, 645 is about 75% taller and about 50% wider than 135 in each linear dimension!:D
 

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4x5 or 20 inches squared equals about 12900mm squared = roughly 15 times the resolution!!!!
 

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135 was looked a bit small to MF, now when i get LF i see that MF is small to LF, i don't want to imagine what about 8x10 to 4x5 or 20x24 to 8x10.
 
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