Or, why National Geographic wasn't using large format cameras in 2000.
Because that's the average number of photographs for each article in NG. Over 800 rolls of 35mm film per article. For each photograph you saw in the magazine, there were over 1,900 that didn't make it.
At least watch the first three minutes. Then Marcus Donner discusses how he did 600 captures to illustrate a story about swing dancing.
Now, how would you do that with large format?
"A velvet hand, a hawk's eye, these we all should have... If the shutter was released at the decisive moment, you have instinctively fixed a geometric pattern without which the photograph would have been both formless and lifeless."
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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