![]() On the other hand, there wasn't much reason to buy lenses that can resolve better than the best film available. ![]() The advantage of better lenses, and film good enough to use them, at affordable prices, allowed for the quality 35mm cameras we know today. (It still is harder, but, it seems, not enough harder.) (Where it will be enlarged more when printed.) Until relatively recent mass production, it was significantly harder to make large lens elements than small ones. In 35mm, the same physical size lens might be f/2.8, but now you need four or five element lens to get a quality image into the smaller frame. A simple doublet lens on a 116 box camera isn't so bad, but is probably f/8 at most. To actually do that requires going through the various scaling laws that come up when comparing the different formats. Not counting, for now, the high-end cameras normally discussed in this forum. I have wondered for a long time about the transition from low to medium quality, medium format cameras (including box cameras, Brownies, and folding cameras) to 35mm rangefinders and then SLRs. I remember the first time I shot medium format and was disappointed at the apparent lack of sharpness, but then a friend had told me to stop down further than I usually do on 35mm to get the results I wanted.
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