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Sell the R5 and get an R7 and R? Crazy?

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ThrillaMozilla Veteran Member • Posts: 7,665
Re: Sell the R5 and get an R7 and R? Crazy?

I'm not going to try to sort out all the thinking, but reading this again, I'm not sure you have the right idea about crop mode.  There is no magic about crop mode.  It simply crops off the outer parts of the image.  Nothing more, nothing less.  You can get exactly the same picture by taking the picture and cropping it later.  There is no magic about depth of field or out-of-focus background.

Using an R7 with the same lens would be just like cropping the image, except that you also get smaller pixels.  That, of course, is an advantage, and it gives you more pixels per duck.

Crop mode with the R5 does display the image larger in the viewfinder, and it may help with focusing.  It also gives you smaller file sizes.  But otherwise, the pictures it takes are exactly what you would get by cropping the full image.

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