Medium-format and View Cameras

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There's a big difference between medium and large format. Not the obvious one ;) , but the fact that large format (4" x 5" and larger) cameras generally have "movements"...

Thanks for comparing the engineering of MF and view cameras with DSLRs. I do not have a bezillion dollars to buy one of these MF backs, but I am trying to satisfy my curiosity about how photographers made two books about Indiana's (U.S.) covered bridges and other out-of-the-way places. A TV documentary showed a photographer standing in a wood and beside a huge camera. Perhaps he used film and a scanner.

Another TV documentary showed a photographer with a big camera, laptop, and a cable between the two. What is that about? Was he in the field with a too small memory card?