Does a Photograph's medium change your opinion of it?

[Gingikinz]

Often I hear people compare specs of cameras, lenses, formats, etc to each other. Some people say this matters, some say what only matters is the end result. What do you guys experience when you see a great shot taken on a cheap phone? A mediocre shot from a full-frame or large format camera? Are you surprised? Does a picture's format instantly change your attitude toward the photo and/or the photographer?

Just curious about your thoughts on this.

[Tin Can]

No

I use my iPhone primarily for pictures and have for a long time

The latest iPhone are amazing

I very seldom talk on phone, never text, game or …..

[LabRat]

I have seen books with wonderful reproductions, but have been surprised when seeing originals hanging... Not just the different sizes, but a very different look to the prints...

What you would see on the web would be an even different story...

Steve K

[Tin Can]

And then most cover up the art with glass

I prefer

No glass

Raw Art

[ic-racer]

If one separates a photograph from its medium it becomes something else.
Digital is different, because there is no 'medium.' Binary is not a 'medium' it is an abstraction.

[Pieter]

If one separates a photograph from its medium it becomes something else.
Digital is different, because there is no 'medium.' Binary is not a 'medium' it is an abstraction.

Digital or Binary is a medium by any definition of the term used in the arts.

[Ulophot]

If one separates a photograph from its medium it becomes something else.
Digital is different, because there is no 'medium.' Binary is not a 'medium' it is an abstraction.

Interesting point.

[Gingikinz]

If one separates a photograph from its medium it becomes something else.
Digital is different, because there is no 'medium.' Binary is not a 'medium' it is an abstraction.

What would you consider a photograph that is separated from its medium?

I would debate against your point about digital being an abstraction. Digital (binary code, electrical pulses moving through a circuit board) is just as much a medium as film or print are for sharing the way you see the world through photographs.

[Michael Graves]

...Binary is not a 'medium' it is an abstraction...

I completely disagree with this statement, on two levels. First of all, I don't see how you come to the conclusion that it is not a medium. If you're looking for a physical substrate to make it a medium, it has that in the CCD that holds the pixels. Secondly, of COURSE it is an abstraction. All photography on some level is an abstraction. If not creating an image would generate a second level of reality, and imagine the problems THAT would cause!

[John Layton]

As long as I am moved, inspired, enlightened by an image...I could care less how it came to be.