fuji x-h2/x-t5 crop mode

And-roid wrote:

redout wrote:

Hello,

I'm considering to switch to fuji and wondering if using a lenses in crop mode does the result will be good enough (i guess 20mp from a 2x crop 40mp).

Goal is to travel light with only a prime lenses. Ex: 16mm 2.8.

Suggestions / advise ?

Here's how it works;

4:3 ratio is a 1.125x crop of Horizontal FOV, hfov, so horizontally you can see the effect, you may want to crop it to 3:2 in post but the result in-camera is that a 16mm is now a 18mm (plus 1.5* crop)

5:4 ratio is a 1.2x crop, as above, so 16x1.2 ie 19.2mm

1:1 ratio is a 1.5x crop, as above, 16x 1.5 ie 24mm

〈4:3〉 6864 x 5152 〈3:2〉 7728 x 5152 〈16:9〉 7728 x 4344 〈1:1〉 5152 x 5152 〈5:4〉 6432x5152

In all results if you shoot raw, the full 7728x5152 raw can be recovered, only the jpg is cropped!

Now you also have, sports finder mode, 1.29x crop, so the 16 becomes 21mm, but in this mode you get full view but a white border of the crop is presented. The raw and jpg are both cropped by 1.29, ie you now have 24mp image in 3:2 and raw

You also have 2 further options, 1.4x, this crops the image by 1.4x and also repositions the viewfinder so it fills the frame, completely. Now, we also have the smaller raw and jpg, ie 20.3mp and the 16mm would now be a 22.5(+1.5x crop)

as above the 2x reduces the size to 10mp and the 16mm becomes a 32mm(+1.5x crop) and the raw and jpg will also be 10mp

So, yes, you can make the 16mm work all the way 24mm to 40mm FF equivalent, without much effort and even to 50mm FF if that's what you need.

You can also just use above ratio's and converters to show the effect in-camera and then revert back to the full field of view for the shot.

Thank you for this, i was very interested in these options before purchasing the XH2, i still wish when one selects 4:3 on camera the RAW would also be cropped and not just the jpg. After shooting with gfx for a while i just can’t go back to 3:2, i can’t and i won’t.