# Choosing between Medium Format and 35mm digital platforms **URL:** \ **Category:** Digital Camera Scanning\ **Created:** [February 13, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/choosing-between-medium-format-and-35mm-digital-platforms/8892 "2025-02-13T16:56:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Harry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f6c823/32.png) [@Harry](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/Harry)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/choosing-between-medium-format-and-35mm-digital-platforms/8892/6 "2025-02-15T08:49:36Z")
Your work on Pixel-shift with the Panasonic S1R and the thread that it generated is a very valuable addition to the discussion, the only reason that I didn’t mention it here was because the Panasonic ‘only’ does 8 shot so increases the resolution at the same time, it would have been very interesting to see the result had it been able to do 4-shot, and in-camera processing is such an advantage on the workflow (and file size) front. Reading it all again I see that I’ve done Mark D Segal a disservice, he did share his test of 4-shot mode and found that it didn’t give him an advantage, at least in terms of the resolution of the detail in the dye clouds. I suppose the conclusion is that the processing of Bayer images is so good that any that theoretical difference that 4-shot pixel-shift might give is extremely difficult to demonstrate. [https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/pixel-shift-vs-regular-capture-quick-comparison-w-s1r/8358/424](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/pixel-shift-vs-regular-capture-quick-comparison-w-s1r/8358/424) That also might mean that 4-shot is not seen to be a useful sales feature for manufacturers, and possibly why Panasonic chose not to offer it at all. That’s also probably why the Canon R5 MkII has moved from pixel-shift to AI interpolation. AI is such a marketing buzz word now and there’s none of that difficult science to have to explain, never mind that the actual results are shown to be inferior. > [@Pixel Shift vs Regular Capture - quick comparison w S1R](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/pixel-shift-vs-regular-capture-quick-comparison-w-s1r/8358/49): > > An investigation across 2 articles on pixel-shift, but for Canon R5 rather than Panasonic. It seems that Canon have abandoned their in-camera 9-shot High Res version for the R5 MkII and replaced it with in-camera AI upsizing. Includes a lot of examples which seem to demonstrate how this is a mistake. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/choosing-between-medium-format-and-35mm-digital-platforms/8892)._