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 this is a super-helpful post so I'm reviving this thread for now. I have ordered an X-T5 and was kind of dubious about 40mp, but I never did consider that it would make crops more useful. I'm actually kind of excited about this now.

So if I have this right the modes behave a little differently. I'll use a sample focal lengths as an example.

18mm lens (28mm FF equiv) prime lens becomes:
  23mm (35mm FF equiv), in sports finder mode = 24mp jpg + full res raw file
  25mm (38mm FF equiv), in 1.4x crop mode, 20mp jpg + 20mp raw
  36mm (54mm FF equiv), in 2x crop mode, 10mp jpg + 10mp raw

23mm = 30, 32, 46., but 32 and 46 are lossy.

I think this is another way of saying, Sports Finder mode draws a box around a 1.29 crop but you still have the full res raw. Tele-convert (crop) modes really crop the raw and jpg in camera.

Of course, you can always crop a full file later if you want. But these modes are useful if you want to "use" another focal length, and compose with it in the camera, without buying a new lens. So the increased resolution really helps.

Greg