Digital BW, The Print

I've used 8x10 and I have to say it was never a match for 35mm for most 
of the things I wanted to do as a photographer. It depends what you 
want. There isn't a single path. My vote for the greatest photographer 
of the 20th century would quite probably go either to Andre Kertesz or 
Robert Frank or Walker Evans depending which side of the bed I got out 
of this morning. Never of course to Ansel, although occasionally to 
Edward W. and more often to Bill Brandt.

Regards,

Peter Marshall
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> Man I hear this all the time.Mostly at DPreview dot comm.Is digital
> capture really now a match for 8x10 BW film in fine art?I live on the
> Calif. coast and frequent quite a few galleries.I have yet to see a
> digital captured BW image that drops my jaw like Brett's stuff shot
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>> shooting digital capture, especially Ansel Adams. He told us himself 
>> decades ago before he died that he wished it was available to him
>> then. It wasn't. 
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