Been studying a wonderful book called "Looking in: Robert Frank's the Americans". The book details the history and making of the very important photography book "The Americans" by Robert Frank.
Looking at the contact sheets that are reproduced is fascinating. There are times that 2 great famous images are on a single segment of 6 negs (1 of 6 cut segments from a roll of film) on the contact sheet. The man was really in the zone he knew exactly what he wanted to say and said it with an economy of film.
Frank also used a variety of films, Ilford, Kodak Plus-x, Tri-x, Super xx, along with several films I did not recognize.
What it really comes down to is the type of film does not matter, cameras do not matter (Frank just used one I believe with a so so lens) but what really matters is the photographers vision, Frank knew exactly what he wanted to say and he said it.
