Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these formats in order of increasing negative area.
- 35 mm
- 4 × 5 inch
- 645
- 6 × 7
- 6 × 6
Hints
- The roll-film formats all share a 56 mm dimension.
- The sheet format is more than an order of magnitude larger than the smallest.
Show the answer
- 35 mm
- 645
- 6 × 6
- 6 × 7
- 4 × 5 inch
Why
The run from 864 to 11400 square millimetres is a factor of about thirteen in area, or three and a half stops of enlargement advantage. That is the entire argument for large format, and the entire argument against it is that you carry it on your back and get one frame per sheet.
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