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by Shivatron 3795 days ago
This is absolutely the right answer. Too often, internet arguments about the merits of various formats devolve to more film/sensor == more resolution, when nothing could be further from the truth.

Case in point: I once mounted a 150mm large format lens into a cardboard box and taped some Provia 100 inside the box opposite the lens. The resulting image takes up a huge amount of film (roughly 6cm x 17cm), but despite having a decent lens, the resulting image isn't all that great... of course, a cardboard box can't keep the lens square to the box, sucks at keeping the film flat, and even if you managed to get a perfect exposure it's very hard to keep a large negative (positive in this case) flat enough to get a decent dry scan.

(Here's the image, BTW: https://www.flickr.com/photos/shivatron/2384597928 .)