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Anonymous
>>284368 There are a lot of issues there that make it a totally unrelated point, though.
First of all, optics and lens technology have improved quite a bit in the past decade, much less few decades. The difference between primes and zooms has become much less apparent.
Next, Medium Format is a very different case from 35mm and 35's digital descendants. A much larger, higher "resolution" image means that glass quality is much more visible. Medium format glass is larger, so there's a lot more to move around inside the lens during zooming, causing possible quality loss, as well as a weight penalty. MF cameras are also primarily used for very controlled situations, where the fast ability to change focal length isn't critical, so primes aren't a disadvantage in that regard.
Finally, in the digital world, we're dealing with comparatively low quality, even in reference 35mm. With many lenses, the sensor's not capable of resolving the difference between high quality zooms and primes. This is especially notable with crop sensors, which, when used with standard 35mm lenses, only take the center of the image circle, rather than the edges of the glass where most zoom downsides (vignetting, softness, distortion, etc) appear.
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