{"id":31179,"date":"2016-02-09T04:16:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T08:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=31179"},"modified":"2016-02-09T10:38:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T14:38:40","slug":"eos-5ds-r-crop-mode-sometimes-you-can-be-100-wrong-and-ignorant-and-it-doesnt-mean-squat-then-you-learn-something-anyway-more-5ds-r-stuff-from-patrick-sparkman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2016\/02\/09\/eos-5ds-r-crop-mode-sometimes-you-can-be-100-wrong-and-ignorant-and-it-doesnt-mean-squat-then-you-learn-something-anyway-more-5ds-r-stuff-from-patrick-sparkman\/","title":{"rendered":"EOS 5DS R Crop Mode: Sometimes You Can Be 100% Wrong and Ignorant and It Doesn’t Mean Squat… Then you learn something new anyway! More 5DS R stuff from Patrick Sparkman. And a great NIK Tonal Contrast Trick!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s Up?<\/h3>\n

It started work on this blog post on Sunday while laying over–heck, it was only 7 hours, not 8 as I originally figured–at the Delta lounge in LAX. It was 1:02 PM Pacific time as I began to type. My flight to Tokyo was set for 4:50pm. As I said, one breath at a time. <\/p>\n

I got a lot done on my MCO to LAX flight and got a lot done on Sunday afternoon. I can’t wait for the Snow Monkeys!<\/p>\n

I added lots more to this post on my layover day in Tokyo, that being Tuesday February 9, 2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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8771 was shot at full frame.
\n8772 was shot at 1.3 crop.
\n8773 was shot at 1.6 crop.
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EOS 5DS R Crop Mode\/Sometimes You Can Be 100% Wrong and Ignorant and It Doesn’t Mean Squat…<\/h3>\n

I am not sure how this all started but in the blog post here<\/a> good friend Patrick Sparkman commented: <\/p>\n

David. I never said that I would use the in camera crop. I would never use that and only crop in post processing. Obviously, if I could get closer to the subject, and fill the frame on the 5DS R I would. But that is not always possible, so the 5DS R allows for significant cropping in post and still maintain good image quality. I hope that answers your question.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then I chimed in out of ignorance:<\/p>\n

As far as I know, there is no such thing as in-camera cropping as there is with some Nikon bodies…<\/em><\/p>\n

Next, good friend and multiple IPT participant David Policansky posted this: <\/p>\n

Artie: This from the Imaging Resource website: \u201cAlso, in what we believe is another EOS camera first, Canon has added crop shooting modes for both 1.3x and 1.6x crop factors.\u201d That is what I was talking about. Check your 5DS R camera body manual!<\/em> \ud83d\ude42 David<\/p>\n

So I did, and learned that I was wrong. And I learned a lot more. Here goes:<\/p>\n

#1: If you convert in Adobe Camera RAW or Lightroom or anything but Canon Digital Photo Professional 4, there is no such thing as Crop<\/em> or Aspect Ratio<\/em> after the fact. Why? Only DPP 4 recognizes some (but not all) of the six choices. <\/p>\n

#2: If you choose either the 1.3x (crop) or the 1.6x (crop) setting at the bottom of the fourth RED menu, the image will be “cropped” as you look through the viewfinder (the cropped pixels are grayed out). When you view the images on the rear LCD, you will see the crop marks. When you bring the image into DPP 4 (only) for the RAW conversion, you will see the crop marks. If you proceed to convert the image you will be left only with the cropped version. It is possible to get rid of the crop marks and work with the full frame image by going to the Crop<\/em> tab and hitting Clear<\/em>. <\/p>\n

#3: If you choose 1:1 you will see the crop in the viewfinder as above. You will see the square crop upon playback. But that is the end of it. You will not see the square crop even in DPP 4. <\/p>\n

If you choose either 4:3 or 16:9 you will not<\/em><\/strong> see the crop through the viewfinder and there will be no crop marks<\/em> <\/strong>on your image. At this point you should be asking, “What’s up with that?” <\/p>\n

Strangely enough when you choose 4:3 or 16:9, you will be viewing only the cropped portion of the images in the selected proportion when you work in Live View. And that is also true when you pick the 1.3x (crop), the 1.6x (crop), or the 1:1 Aspect Ratio. <\/p>\n

All of the above makes no sense to me. Does any of it make sense to you? If so, please leave a comment and explain it to us. <\/p>\n

If 1.3x and 1.6x are indeed “crops” and the 1:1, 4:3, and 16:9 are all indeed Aspect Ratios, then why not have each of those three do the same thing? Beats me. <\/p>\n

Of note: in all cases you always have the complete, un-cropped RAW file to work with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This image was created through the spotlessly clean window of my room in a luxurious Tokyo hotel with the hand held Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens<\/a> (at 100mm) and the monster mega-pixel Canon EOS 5DS R.<\/a> ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1\/3 stop: 1\/500 sec. at f\/8. <\/p>\n

Center AF point\/AI Servo Expand\/Rear Focus AF on the tallest building and re-compose. Click here<\/a> to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. <\/p>\n

The View from the Top<\/strong><\/h2>\n