MF lenses on smaller formats
Many Medium Format lenses _do_ resolve as many lp/mm as a 35mm lens...don't write them all off on the basis of popular myths. Generally, any MF lens designed since about 1980 - including moderate wideangles - or any "normal/standard or long lens (on MF)" designed since the 1960s, will be very competitive with 35mm equivalents using the same fundamental designs and optical glass types.
Once you get into exotic ED and APO glass, aspheric elements and so on, then you might think that the 35mm lenses will pull ahead...but there are also APO MF lenses which keep right up with them!
The biggest differences are (a) 35mm lenses can be made with a faster f-ratio without becoming too gigantic, (b) MF SLR lenses move into the retrofocus design regime at focal lengths under about 80mm, whereas the threshold for 35mm SLRs is closer to 45mm; this makes it difficult to find a really good (or sometimes any) MF wideangle around the 35-45mm focal length, while the same thing applies to 35mm lenses shorter than 20mm.
Indeed, apart from just keeping up with 35mm performance, MF lenses can have some advantages. MF lenses will often vignette less. They may also provide improved corner sharpness, since the corner of the 35mm frame (where the designers give up) is well inside the MF frame (where the designers still have to be on their toes).
So if you don't need the fastest f-stops, and you avoid anything wider than the equivalent of about a 35mm-lens-on-35mm-film, and you stay away from simple, few-element designs like Tessars (ugly lenses on _any_ format!), MF SLR lenses can be damn good on smaller formats!
Some of my favourites, which perform admirably on 35mm film - even wide open, or at least 1 stop down from wide open:
Mamiya 645 55mm f2.8 N-type
Mamiya 645 80mm f1.9
Carl Zeiss Jena 120mm f2.8 MC Biometar
Mamiya 645 200mm f2.8 APO [amazingly, currently available new for the same as any good 200/2.8 APO for 35mm cameras!]
Carl Zeiss Jena 300mm f4 MC Sonnar
These are just M645 and P6 fitting lenses...every MF lens line will also have great performers, but I don't want to comment on anything I haven't used.
Ray