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do all canon point and shoots ONLY allow 4:3 on several settings?

Started Jun 14, 2015 | Discussions thread
AlbertTheLazy
AlbertTheLazy Veteran Member • Posts: 8,683
Re: do all canon point and shoots ONLY allow 4:3 on several settings?

hifly wrote:

I always shoot on maximum resolution and then crop.

Same here. Most P&S cameras have a sensor that is 3:4 in shape. That's its native format. If you decide to shoot 2:3, or any other format, you are throwing away pixels.

If you shoot raw + JPEG then the raw will always have the full sensor's worth of pixels so you can use it if you need to, even if its accompanying raw was cropped in camera.

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