Petition Fuji, give us 4:3, 5:4, and 6:7 aspect ratios on X-series cameras Locked

Truman Prevatt wrote:

Bob Tullis wrote:

robert1955 wrote:

dm333 wrote:

This is a feature I really wish Fuji would implement. I've seen it used to good effect on some other cameras that have this option. I can think of quite a few times in the past year that a non-destructive crop mode would have helped me frame an image better. It sure would be nice to press a button and be able to see what elements are being included in my planned crop before I take the image.

The "workarounds" that people suggest are usually either crappy ways to deal with it (seriously, putting tape on your screen?) or suboptimal at best (i.e. cropping in post). There's a clean, simple, elegant solution if Fuji chooses to implement it.

i do not see why cropping post capture would be suboptimal. The only disadvantage I can see is that you do not remember the framing you had in mind. But if you cannot remember, it maybe was not a very compelling idea after all?

The "problem" lies in that I don't know exactly where the edges of the intended frame are when I take the image. A good example is cropping a 1:1 from a 3:2 - you're throwing away a third of the pixels. Exactly where the cropped edges of your image end up is guesswork. So you take the picture, go back to your computer, and hope that the square crop includes all the elements you want and none of the elements you don't want. Alternatively, I could make my tool more precise (via in-camera aspect ratios) and be able to better plan my image while I'm taking it.

I agree whole heartedly. But then, as a 1955Bob, of course I would.

As a 1947 Truman I agree. One should be able to previsualize the image independent of the shape of the viewfinder. That is what being a photographer means. The one really nice things about the 6x6 medium format camera is you didn't have to mess with horizontal or vertical formats when taking the image. You simply visualized what you wanted and then cropped when you made the print and if you revisualized it - you simply cropped differently.

On the other hand I can see where people that don't care about post processing and don't want to post process and buy Fuji because the OOC jpegs so they are not required to do anything on a computer would like to be able to select their form factor in camera and be done with it. Not everyone that uses a camera these days wants to mess with raw.

I can also see the benefit in limiting matrix metering to a different aspect ratio might have some benefit but that is a different question I suppose.

So I actually thing the ability to select among a collection of aspect rations, 1x1, 5x7, 4x5, 2x3 etc. and have the frame lines in the view finder show up and the jpegs pop out in that exact composition would be attractive - as long as the raws that showed up for those of us that shoot raws were not changed.

Agree - a "crop mode" that output cropped jpgs but leaves the RAW files untouched would be a good implementation.