Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I guess that while your explanation makes perfect sense, in practice: if I have the choice of either having a bigger file with more data in it to decide later, on my computer screen what I want to crop, why would I want to initially crop in the camera and maybe miss something in the heat of shooting? Vignetting in easily cropped out later...... which is the issue with DX lenses used on an FX body ( if I have the nomenclature correct...) I am still missing something..... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net The reason to publish FX and DX specs is the full frame Nikons can use the Nikon Dx lenses that were released before the full frame cameras came out. The D3 can automatically switch to DX mode when these lenses are used. Nikon hardly ever obsoletes their lenses. As Chris mentioned he can use his 10.5 MP fisheye on his D3 even though it was designed for the 1.5 X crop bodies. Len On Jun 19, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Frank Filippone wrote: > Question: > > There appears to be a trend to publish the image (pixel) sizes of > the image > both for FX and DX formats.... > > Why would any rational person use a DX ( smaller) format if he had the > larger format available to him? ( It is called cropping..... in old > fashioned speak)