Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] "Budget" full frame Nikon SLR
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Thu Jun 19 21:12:33 2008
References: <CF2B1B59C6624D51BC48481232468942@xyw> <C4802804.113B3%mark@rabinergroup.com> <000201c8d25a$d33b0810$79b11830$@net> <7D25B215-3044-4EF0-985A-659EB42C6476@comcast.net>

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)




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