Response to 6X6 obsolete??

I agree with Floren, look, once you have seen a contact print from an 8x10 negative you will agree size does matter! :-)) The funny thing is this, I am a LF photographer, and I have 4x5 negs printed to 16x20 that show no grain, but even those cannot compare to an 8x10 contact print. So if image quality is what you want, being that 6x6 is about 6 times the area of a 35 mm, you will find better quality in a 6x6. Now I have heard the claims of 35 mm users telling me that with tech pan they can produce grainless 16x20 prints, that might be so, I was a 35 mm user when I first started and I could never acheive this feat! but my answer to that is I can make 60x80 grainless prints with my tech pan 4x5 negative...lol.Another curious item I have been recently noticing, if you are a digital shooter, then you are really in hot water, from what I understand it seems digital requires very fine apo lenses and you need flawless technique to approach the quality of print film. Any way I am rambling here, look, use what better suits your style and print size.

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