Hi all,
[Insert standard mealy-mouthed plea for forbearance due to inexperience,
acknowledgment of fact that any photographer worth his salt should know,
and insistence that Google was not forthcoming with satisfactory
answers, here.]
I've been doing all of my cropping with software rather than in-camera
since I started taking photos. A fair percentage of the crops I do are
pretty severe. But, it's occurred to me that I may be sacrificing IQ as
a consequence of that tendency, though I don't know. I've searched for
"advantages of in-camera cropping" and other similar key words, but
haven't been able to find any informative material with high relevancy
results. So, I figured I'd ask the Pentaxian Oracles.
I've always just assumed that cropping in-camera does essentially the
same thing as cropping with software in post-processing. Am I right in
that regard? Or, does the camera perform the task better than, say,
IrfanView or some other basic image editor?
My routine (admittedly redundant) has been to pull the HD card and cut &
paste the folder into my "Photography" directory, load them into Picasa
and save the original files (typically JPEG) as the "Picasa Originals",
then go about cropping for composition. I do my best to avoid cropping
any image down to anything less than 2400 pixels long-side from the
original 4288x2848. Once I've done my cropping, I resize them down to
two resolutions -- 2400 pixels long-side for prints and 1600 pixels
long-side for uploading and sharing (if I intend to do that with any of
the images).
Am I screwing up by doing this instead of doing most of my cropping
in-camera, or is it six of one, half-a-dozen of the other?
Thanks in advance for any guidance anyone can offer.
Best,
Walt
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