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Medium Format Redefined
As long as photographers keep in mind that cameras are just the tools they use to capture light the way they want it to be, we can give a lot of credit to those tools at some point. Photography has been evolving since its appearance with to inclusion of faster and more portable artifacts.
Long story short, after photography was born thanks to some hard work of people like Daguerre, Niépce and Fox Talbot, it became a viable thing for the masses. First there were large cameras that relied on wet plates, then large view cameras (also known as large format cameras), then things shrunk a bit and the medium format appeared and after that the “teeny-tiny” 35mm. It is funny how 35mm (what we now call full-frame) was diminished by photographers due to its size, to the point to even get pejoratively called “a post-stamp” for crying out loud!
But let’s stick to Medium Format for this one.
We can intertwine Medium Format’s legacy back to a huge milestone in photography, the Kodak Brownie. This camera made for the masses used 117 and 120 format film, both are considered to be “medium format”.
Basically, medium format is a film or sensor larger than 35mm but smaller than 4x5" format (which is the smaller member of the the Large Format family). Back in the days of film, medium format was usually available in squared 6x6cm or slightly…
