Crop Mode?
May 27, 2018 08:42:39 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
I have seen this term, "crop mode", used several times in the last few days, I think usually in reference to Nikon D8XX. I understand full frame and crop sensor as defining the physical size of the sensor. I own Canons, I have nothing against Nikon, have even considered Nikon but then I'd have to buy new len$e$. I just don't understand what shooting in crop mode is. Will some one please explain?
May 27, 2018 08:58:25 #
The term refers to cameras, APS-C, micro 4/3rds and the like, that have sensors that are less than 35mm film frame size. Both Canon and Nikon, as well as others make both full frame and "crop mode" sensors. The term really isn't the best, but it stuck.
May 27, 2018 08:59:59 #
May 27, 2018 09:01:09 #
I have both full frame (Canon 5D MIII) and 1.6 Crop Canon (7D MII). When I mount my Canon EF 70 - 200mm f/2.8 II lens on my Canon 5D MIII (full frame sensor) the range of focal lengths is from 70 - 200mm. However, when I mount the same lens on my (crop) 7D MII, the range changes to 102 - 320 mm. (1.6 x 70 and 1.6 x 200). Essentially,
it brings all objects closer by a factor of 1.6. There are more technical explanations, that I'm sure others will offer, but this is a simple answer.
Hope this helps.
Mark
it brings all objects closer by a factor of 1.6. There are more technical explanations, that I'm sure others will offer, but this is a simple answer.
Hope this helps.
Mark
lmTrying wrote:
I have seen this term, "crop mode", used several times in the last few days, I think usually in reference to Nikon D8XX. I understand full frame and crop sensor as defining the physical size of the sensor. I own Canons, I have nothing against Nikon, have even considered Nikon but then I'd have to buy new len$e$. I just don't understand what shooting in crop mode is. Will some one please explain?
May 27, 2018 09:02:43 #
Crop mode normally refers to a full frame camera being used in “crop mode” to accommodate a non FF lens.
May 27, 2018 09:06:21 #
Putting a lens that was designed for a crop sensor on a full frame will cause the full frame camera to go into crop mode. You use less pixels than are available because of the size of the image projected on to the FF sensor.
May 27, 2018 09:06:53 #
lmTrying wrote:
I have seen this term, "crop mode", used several times in the last few days, I think usually in reference to Nikon D8XX. I understand full frame and crop sensor as defining the physical size of the sensor. I own Canons, I have nothing against Nikon, have even considered Nikon but then I'd have to buy new len$e$. I just don't understand what shooting in crop mode is. Will some one please explain?
Its not a feature of Canon cameras and most Canon shooters are unfamiliar with the feature as Canon FF cameras will not even allow the mounting of their crop sensor lenses. Nikon, Sony, and Pentax all allow such crop sensor mountingvand offer crop sensor shooting mode in their FF bodies when crop sensor lenses are mounted.
May 27, 2018 09:09:29 #
lmTrying wrote:
I have seen this term, "crop mode", used several times in the last few days, I think usually in reference to Nikon D8XX. I understand full frame and crop sensor as defining the physical size of the sensor. I own Canons, I have nothing against Nikon, have even considered Nikon but then I'd have to buy new len$e$. I just don't understand what shooting in crop mode is. Will some one please explain?
The term shooting in crop mode means that you have a full frame sensor camera, and when you are capturing images, usually when the subject is small in the frame, you can set the camera to only use the area that is used by a cropped frame camera. It is also used if you are using a cropped frame lens on a full frame camera since the lens won't project an image that will cover the whole sensor.
May 27, 2018 09:13:22 #
Cwilson341 wrote:
Crop mode normally refers to a full frame camera being used in “crop mode” to accommodate a non FF lens.
Sometimes the simplest explanations are the best and most accurate.May 27, 2018 09:18:10 #
zug55
Loc: Naivasha, Kenya, and Austin, Texas
Cwilson341 wrote:
Crop mode normally refers to a full frame camera being used in “crop mode” to accommodate a non FF lens.
Indeed. Full frame cameras have a crop mode setting (check your manual) for that purpose.
May 27, 2018 11:21:46 #
May 28, 2018 06:29:41 #
lmTrying wrote:
I have seen this term, "crop mode", used several times in the last few days, I think usually in reference to Nikon D8XX. I understand full frame and crop sensor as defining the physical size of the sensor. I own Canons, I have nothing against Nikon, have even considered Nikon but then I'd have to buy new len$e$. I just don't understand what shooting in crop mode is. Will some one please explain?
My Full Frame (sensor) Sony A7Rm2 has the menu item APS-C/Super 35mm, with the options On,Auto,Off. When it is set to Off, I can use e-mount lenses made for Sony NEX (APS-C) cameras, but I will get heavy vignetting like the attached photo. But if I turn On the crop mode, It will give me about one-third the number of megapixels from the center of the picture. That is, it cuts off about 10% on all sides.
May 28, 2018 07:06:14 #
In the first place, dSLR cameras come in two different models. The cropped sensor model has a sensor smaller than the size of a 35mm film negative. The "full sensor" has exactly the same size of a 35mm negative. Both sensors are full frame but in the case of the cropped sensor a lens designed to be used with that type of camera is necessary to use the full size of the sensor.
We can use a "full frame" camera in the cropped sensor mode in which case just part of the sensor is used. That is not advisable.
Hope this helps.
We can use a "full frame" camera in the cropped sensor mode in which case just part of the sensor is used. That is not advisable.
Hope this helps.
May 28, 2018 07:34:21 #
lmTrying wrote:
I have seen this term, "crop mode", used several times in the last few days, I think usually in reference to Nikon D8XX. I understand full frame and crop sensor as defining the physical size of the sensor. I own Canons, I have nothing against Nikon, have even considered Nikon but then I'd have to buy new len$e$. I just don't understand what shooting in crop mode is. Will some one please explain?
Many Full Frame and "crop sensor" cameras have a "crop mode" which, on a full frame, crops the sensor to what a crop sensor camera would be and on an DX or Crop sensor camera it crops the image (again) to roughly 2/3rds of the original image.. generally, this helps enlarge or crop the center portion of an image taken.. HOWEVER, on digital images, you can do this just as easily or easier in post production by just cropping the area that you want and enlarging that to whatever size you want... The crop sensor on camera doesn't increase the resolution or anything, it just mimics what you would do in post.
Personally, I shoot everything at whatever my sensor takes as "full" then crop as necessary in post.
May 28, 2018 07:37:15 #
Cwilson341 wrote:
Crop mode normally refers to a full frame camera being used in “crop mode” to accommodate a non FF lens.
If you like FF but think crop would be nice to have, get a Nikon FF.
https://gardenwalkgardentalk.com/2015/01/18/the-nikon-d750-in-crop-mode/
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