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Yeah, can you imaging hauling around 2,000 glass plates on your next vacation? Or a professional photographer lugging 5,000+ plates and trying to get some candid shots at a wedding? Digital helps people take better shots. Resolution isn't everything!

This applies even to film. The fact that you had to switch film when going from inside the church to outside receiving line to inside reception is lost on most photographers today. Not only were glass plates inconvient, but so was film!

Not to mention that most glass plates are hand coated and very slow.

However, the media and the camera that shoots it is a tool. Large format glass plates are not the right tool for a wedding. They are better suited to portraiture or landscapes.

Sure, but the megapixel war is pretty silly... Even when applied to analog. I believe the minimum resolution for digital cameras used by nat-geo photographers stands at 6mp.

Just look at how much detail there is in all that film grain.