mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

I go with the common one that indicates a 1:1 pixel relationship between the actual image and the screen its presented on. If you takes a look at what I uploaded at full resolution on your monitor you will see that the components in both the crop and the original are identically sized. Where 100% crops really come into play is when the images are not displayed at full resolution. In those situations different crop percentages will yield a different apparent zoom.

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AdSense started sending me stuff on pistols, fordyfives
and 9 millimometers. The misspelling is intentional, so
I don't trigger [ooops, bad keyword] the same thing all
over again.

I quickly realized it happened cuz I'd recommended the
Tamron "super normal" lens that is not the usual 50 but
is fordyfive of those "double ems" in focal length. The
algoriddem obviously latched onto the double ems, and
the numeric 2-character "spelling" of fordyfive, as these
would be key words for gun ads.

IOW guns outweigh lenses in internet traffic and google
just wants us to buy more of whatever is selling best !


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Streets Loc: Euless, TX.

You see, John, that my rule of cropping is the only one that people can understand. Everyone else seems to be disagreeing with everyone else. By the way, The last definition is identical to my new rule: I will call it Streets' second rule of photodynamics, in honor of Newton's second law of thermodynamics. All in favor, say "aye".

Strodav Loc: Houston, Tx

Bobspez nailed it.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Huh???

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

It doesn't do any good for everyone to understand a definition if it is not correct. There may be disagreement, but I am very sure that 100% crop doesn't mean an uncropped image.

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

Right. The OP's original premise is incorrect.

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NAYE !

That differentiation between "100% Crop" and "100%
View" is very likely the key to the vernacular usage of
the former when really meaning to express latter.

There are many examples of idiomatic linguistic "short
hand" in daily conversation. I suspect that the usage
"100% crop" is just a sloppy short version of the fully
expressed phrase "CROPPED TO 100% View". Not that
users of the vernacular actually KNOW the full versions
of various short hand phrases ... nor are they aware of
these being short hand. They simply pick up the jargon
in its vernacular form becuz it works.

Within one of your sentences lurks the phrase "people
can understand". Forget ALL forms of THAT. "People" in
the collective sense, tend to NOT understand stuff, and
"could care less" that that they don't understand stuff.

Use of "could care less" is quite intentional, as another
example of very incorrect usage having a globally well
accepted meaning. "Could care less" is ALWAYS used
when the speaker means "I couldN'T care less" ... but
again, it works. Even the Grammar Nazis have thrown
in the towel on that one, granting it approval for use
"as is" in all and any writing or speech.

Not that I don't agree with your argument. But I know
that your crusade falls mainly on the ears of those who
"could care less" about it :-)

I'm as hopeless as you ! I insist that there is no such
unicorn as the "Mirrorless" camera. We got TLRs, SLRs,
RFs, etc all named for their view & focus mechanisms.
And we got LVs too. Live View cameras. But noooooo,
we let an awkward silly assed term like "mirrorless" be
foisted upon us by marketing dweebs, and we roll over.

Relish the battle, bro'. Savor the jihad, cuz thaz all you
get. Victory is overrated but resistance is vital. Keep on
keepin on ! The rest, as they say, is "100% crAp" ;-)



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BebuLamar

NAYE! Too.

The term "100% crop" is incorrect but everyone who ever used it meant the same thing. Using the OP definition "100% crop" as an uncrop image makes no sense.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

If "100% crop" means a 1:1 correspondence between the image pixels and the view pixels then cropping an image does nothing to change that. The way to change from 100% crop is to change the size of the image by means other than cropping. Therefore the word "crop" is a red herring that confuses everyone.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

I worked at a big film processing and custom printing lab in the late 1990's and early 2000's, and I don't recall anyone using the term "100% crop" - neither the lab technicians, nor the photographers. Instead, "no crop", "uncropped" or "full frame" were typically used. (Of course, "full frame" has a somewhat different meaning nowadays.) Referring to cropping as a percentage value can easily be misinterpreted. For example, does 30% crop mean 30% of original image remains, or 30% of the original image is removed?

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

Nope! (there is no crop involved)!

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Yes, typo.

Term of art can, and does often equal, pure bullshit. I’m part of the movement to improve clarity in American English.

Bill_de Loc: US

Yes. I crop a lot of my attempts 100%. I find the easiest tool to do that is the delete key.

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burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC