Thanks, Brian.
You hit on another reason why I've never fiddled with in-camera
cropping. It's tedious as hell, and since I don't tend to do much still
photography, it just seems crazy to even bother with it. And, even if I
did do a lot of still photography, I don't see the point of cropping
when you can just move in tighter with another shot.
To be honest, I haven't the foggiest notion as to what good in-camera
cropping is at all. I could see the utility of it if I were, say,
sexting with an iPhone, but I gave that up weeks ago.
-- Walt
On 10/25/2010 1:32 AM, Brian Walters wrote:
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 01:01 -0500, "Walter Gilbert"<[email protected]>
wrote:
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.
I wasn't even aware that in-camera cropping was available. It's not on
the K200D - seems to be a feature of more recent models.
I struggle to see the benefits of cropping in camera but, assuming that
you remove the same amount of image in both cases, I can't see that it
would make any difference.
It seems to me that in camera cropping is a bit of a time wasting
exercise in the field - you might miss a great shot while fiddling about
with cropping. In any case, cropping later would usually be done with
more consideration as to the best aspect ratio and composition that
suits the image.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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