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Shooting 4K in Crop Mode on a Crop (APS-C) Camera! Close-Ups of Butterflies and Bees

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Shooting 4K in Crop Mode on a Crop (APS-C) Camera! Close-Ups of Butterflies and Bees

The Canon R7 permits you to shoot 4K 60P from a 4K-resolution 1:1 crop of the sensor.

If you shoot 4K 60p in crop mode you avoid line-skipping softness and you get a 2.88X crop! This makes the compact kit lens (15-150) 432mm at the long end, and 52mm at the short end. No need for that 100-400mm lens. And you still get the highest resolution - 4K (though not quite as pristine as 4K Fine, which oversamples from the full sensor but is limited to 30P).

You still get the combined IBIS and lens IS stabilization, which works really well in real life. And, for shooting butterflies, bees and other insects, which do not stay in one place long, you have to have fast and accurate AF - you need to point and shoot with instant focus. And you get it.

Finally, you get nice, smooth video at 60 fps. Here I have slowed down the 60 fps video to 30 fps (1/2X speed) so you can see better what the critters are doing.

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