Camera Crop: I read somewhere recently that if you crop your photos in camera, do you still keep the original resolution in the cropped photo? Thanks John...

johneccles Loc: Leyland UK

I read somewhere recently that if you crop your photos in camera, do you still keep the original resolution in the cropped photo?
Thanks
John

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

As far as I am aware a cropped image is a cropped image, you are losing data in or out of camera

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cthahn

johneccles wrote:

I read somewhere recently that if you crop your photos in camera, do you still keep the original resolution in the cropped photo?
Thanks
John

Once you have cropped it in the camera, there is no going back later to change. The best way is to take the file in raw, look at it in Elements or program of your choice. Crop it and or do what you want to do with it. You can always go back to the original file and start over again. You have lost nothing. It is much easier to do any work on a monitor that a small screen on a camera. Every one has reasons why they want to do it their way, but just remember, once it is done in the camera, it can not be redone

Db7423 Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

cthahn wrote:

Once you have cropped it in the camera, there is ... (show quote)

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

You might be thinking of the topic posted on the 14th. Link is below. There was initial confusion over whether the OP was talking about an actual crop (like you are), or just zooming in closer to fill the frame with your subject.

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-140574-1.html

RocketScientist Loc: Littleton, Colorado

johneccles wrote:

I read somewhere recently that if you crop your photos in camera, do you still keep the original resolution in the cropped photo?
Thanks
John

Read the fine manual. My Olympus SP510UZ would keep the original file as well as the cropped image. Your results may vary. Test it on a picture you don't care too much about. The cropped image will be whatever you cropped it to, it won't be enlarged to whatever the original was.

hb3 Loc: Texas

cthahn wrote:

Once you have cropped it in the camera, there is ... (show quote)

With the Olympus OMD-EM5 one can crop in camera and maintain both the crop and the original...

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

As a relative newbie to digital photography, I'm not sure I understand the desire to crop or delete in the camera. If you are using some PP software, why not download them all into some temporary file for review before doing anything else. This gives the opportunity to see the photos in a larger format for critical examination and culling the "less good" and poor shots.

After the culling, I can do the cropping and any other 'adjustments" I want.

MSG Leggett Loc: Wausau, WI (Central Wis)

I have an old (about 10 yrs) SONY Cybershot. With this camera I can crop, Magnify, and change file size. It retains the original and cropped photos. You can do this as many times as you want and still keep the original. NOW I have a Canon T3i. 50 times the SONY, but I cannot find a way to crop with this camera and SAVE. Am I missing something? If anybody has an answer to this, please post. With this feature its the same as Post Processing right on the spot so you can take another if needed.

MSG Leggett Loc: Wausau, WI (Central Wis)

I have an old (about 10 yrs)(largest Memory Card available was 128 MEG) SONY Cybershot. With this camera I can crop, Magnify, and change file size. It retains the original and cropped photos. You can do this as many times as you want and still keep the original. NOW I have a Canon T3i. 50 times the SONY, but I cannot find a way to crop with this camera and SAVE. Am I missing something? If anybody has an answer to this, please post. With this feature its the same as Post Processing right on the spot so you can take another if needed.

hb3 Loc: Texas

JCam wrote:

As a relative newbie to digital photography, I'm not sure I understand the desire to crop or delete in the camera. If you are using some PP software, why not download them all into some temporary file for review before doing anything else. This gives the opportunity to see the photos in a larger format for critical examination and culling the "less good" and poor shots.

After the culling, I can do the cropping and any other 'adjustments" I want.

I would agree for the most part...however there are occasions when an in camera crop allows one to more quickly share a casual photo.

Wall-E Loc: Phoenix, AZ

JCam wrote:

As a relative newbie to digital photography, I'm not sure I understand the desire to crop or delete in the camera. If you are using some PP software, why not download them all into some temporary file for review before doing anything else. This gives the opportunity to see the photos in a larger format for critical examination and culling the "less good" and poor shots.

After the culling, I can do the cropping and any other 'adjustments" I want.

Some of us 'old farts' work the same way.
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jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

My Canon camera bodies will crop in camera but if used with the software that comes with the camera you can still use the full image or it will display the cropped image. It's just one image with some proprietary code in the file that tells the software where the cropping is. If viewed in another 3rd party software like LR, the image will be full size since it can't read all the proprietary code.

Pentony Loc: Earth Traveller

cthahn wrote:

Once you have cropped it in the camera, there is ... (show quote)

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marcomarks Loc: Ft. Myers, FL

johneccles wrote:

I read somewhere recently that if you crop your photos in camera, do you still keep the original resolution in the cropped photo?
Thanks
John

No, you don't. Crop is crop whether it's in camera or not. Crop is throwing away some of the photo and thus throwing away a lot of pixels to a reduced resolution.