I hear all this talk about the crop mode on the A7R4 but I don't understand why you would use it. Why wouldn't you just use normal mode and then crop in post? This reminds me of all the fuji shooters who are shooting black and white jpg when they can just edit it to black and white in post.
The only reason I could see someone shooting crop is if they want to improve buffer speed and want smaller file sizes to hold more photos on card or to make files easier to edit on computer.
You aren't getting any extra magnification from crop mode right? Am I missing something?
pplskills wrote:
I hear all this talk about the crop mode on the A7R4 but I don't understand why you would use it. Why wouldn't you just use normal mode and then crop in post? This reminds me of all the fuji shooters who are shooting black and white jpg when they can just edit it to black and white in post.
The only reason I could see someone shooting crop is if they want to improve buffer speed and want smaller file sizes to hold more photos on card or to make files easier to edit on computer.
You aren't getting any extra magnification from crop mode right? Am I missing something?...Show more →
When using it for birds for example, It is a wonderful thing when you can get close enough to actually care about composition at full frame. Most of the time you are reaching, and using aps-c mode saves you space, speeds up post, and speeds up shooting/extends the buffer. It also clears the buffer faster which means you can get back in and chimp/change more quickly.
Another benefit is that it effectively zooms your viewfinder which helps you pick out details, or for example yesterday, helped me locate a green heron I saw fly into some reeds but was too far away for me to find his camouflaged butt with my naked eye.
Does anyone know if crop mode improves AF? Yes, the AF points/sizes don't change, but I am wondering if processing/buffering smaller files frees up processing time/function?
armd wrote:
Does anyone know if crop mode improves AF? Yes, the AF points/sizes don't change, but I am wondering if processing/buffering smaller files frees up processing time/function?
I couldn't tell any difference as I swapped between them fairly regularly.
pplskills wrote:
I hear all this talk about the crop mode on the A7R4 but I don't understand why you would use it. Why wouldn't you just use normal mode and then crop in post? This reminds me of all the fuji shooters who are shooting black and white jpg when they can just edit it to black and white in post.
The only reason I could see someone shooting crop is if they want to improve buffer speed and want smaller file sizes to hold more photos on card or to make files easier to edit on computer.
You aren't getting any extra magnification from crop mode right? Am I missing something?...Show more →
Buffer is horrible on this camera at full res even in compressed. Writing to card is like 3 seconds per file to clear the buffer on compressed. If one is shooting action that will need a crop to APS-C or further anyways then you get the larger buffer, much quicker buffer clearing and the magnified EVF view. Also when I cull my ~2000 shots per day in LR, I can move photo to photo instantly with 26MP files but 61MP files gives the slightest annoying delay everytime I hit the arrow or X key to get to the next 1:1 preview. Also nice to save on storage space when not needed.
pplskills wrote:
I hear all this talk about the crop mode on the A7R4 but I don't understand why you would use it. Why wouldn't you just use normal mode and then crop in post? This reminds me of all the fuji shooters who are shooting black and white jpg when they can just edit it to black and white in post.
The only reason I could see someone shooting crop is if they want to improve buffer speed and want smaller file sizes to hold more photos on card or to make files easier to edit on computer.
You aren't getting any extra magnification from crop mode right? Am I missing something?...Show more →
Yep cropper mode=huge buffer, faster clearing to card, whole sensor covered with AF points AND when in cropper mode sometimes I can pull back my zoom and cross the line to a lower ISO.
Ppplskills, no one has ever asked me if my shot was from crop or FF
It's really just another tool up the Riv's sleeve to use or not.
