Irene McC
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- CPT, South Africa
8x10 for portraits
For a long time this has been my way. Till I realized the cropping in PP often does not give the same result in composition as a pre-shutter-release decision. It's got to do with perspective. When you decide on one specific ratio you make sure that the perspective suits the composition (with walking instead of zooming, taking the shot from eye-level or higher / lower, etc). With cropping in PP you can't change these important parameters any more.I really don't understand why someone would set a camera to produce an image that's smaller than what the sensor can produce. I want everything. Everything. I'll worry about aspect ratio in post. At that point the aspect ratio is whatever the composition wants.
I would have thought that camera would cover xpan format just fine by merely cropping in PP, such is the enormity of it's sensor?I am hoping that the X2D gets the Xpan format in the coming firmware release. But as I lay in bed this morning pondering the wisdom of getting out of bed it occurred to me that if there is a Xpan format it will not be by adding something but by taking something away. And I can do that in post, too.
Yes, I am sure it can. But I would like to see the image as it would be i the viewfinder when I am ready to push the button. Doing it in post allows me to move that "window" around which is nice. But being able to see the Xpan would be nice. Bitch, bitch, bitch, what I like to do.I would have thought that camera would cover xpan format just fine by merely cropping in PP, such is the enormity of it's sensor?