The TRUTH about cropping in camera vs cropping in post

[@infinitypanther]

Kobie I did a walk through of the Christmas lights here in my town. I got the idea from the video that you posted I think last year and posted it on my channel. It's not much but my wife and I had fun doing it. Happy Holidays from my house to yours. 🎄

[@rayjennings3637]

I wish you and your family all that you wish yourselves for Christmas and the New Year.

[@andrewwheeler348]

Really helpful as always. Having just acquired a K3iii I was a bit unsure exactly what this "crop in camera" is all about. Have a wonderful Christmas 🎁 ⛄ and all best wishes for the New Year 🎊🎉

[@raymondpenalver7095]

Thanks for all your very informative videos that I have always found very helpful. Have a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 🎉

[@suhailzubaid9192]

Belated Merry Christmas, Kobie! Very informative video! If I had a camera with that option, I would still do it in post. The reason is what you showed that if I do it on post, I will never be able to go back to the full scene that I saw. In the post process, I can crop it any way I want from the bigger frame that I would always have.

[@deanroslynmengel5575]

Kobie I found cropping in camera gave me better detail and more accurate exposure of the crop because the camera is not taking readings from the external area outside the crop.

[@brienthomson8916]

Thanks for all the info over the past year. Merry Christmas Happy New Year

[@tigershoot]

The only time I use crop mode on the K3iii is when it's something like a bird, or where it's obvious that the subject is distant and it's obvious I am never going to need the rest of the image.

[@scrptwic]

Kobie I always crop in post it's so easy to crop and align in post To you and yours happy Holidays As for me I perfer to celebrate the Seinfeld Holiday( Festivus for the rest of us )I'm going through the garage to get the aluminium pole as I write this

[@KobieMC]

😂😂🤣🤣🤣 I loved that episode!

[@vincemokry9643]

Kobie, thanks for your informative videos. But also thanks for the personal touch as well. Have a great holiday season...to you and yours!!! On to crop mode: I was curious if I use an in-camera crop mode, does the camera ignore the part of the photo being cropped out? By that I mean AE and AF? Does the camera act different for AF or AE if part of the picture is being cropped out?

[@KobieMC]

@@vincemokry9643 Yes, generally, it will tailor the exposure only to the cropped area and it will reduce the width of the AF point array so it doesn't cover the full sensor area.

[@Raycere]

But does it loose dynamique inside the image

[@KobieMC]

@@Raycere No, generally it will meter for the crop area, so you'll still get the proper dynamic range for the scene you're shooting.

[@Raycere]

@KobieMC ok thx u for the feedback it's very helpfull

[@andrewleno591]

I think you forgot point out difference between crop in camera and in PP. In camera crop then camera can reach more shots/seconds and get more photos before buffer is loaded and you waiting for writing from buffer to memory card... In rest it's just same if crop factor is same.

[@KobieMC]

@@andrewleno591 Honestly, it's so negligible on the Pentax K-3 Mark III that you're right. I didn't mention it lol.

[@andrewleno591]

​@@KobieMC So it's negligible or it has an impact? Those are 2 different things... In OVF it has: JPG no crop. 62 frames 5.3 seconds 11.7 FPS RAW no crop. 37 frames 4 seconds 9.25 FPS Crop will make file size smaller, as far as I know only for JPG somehow RAW not affected. But JPG gets from 15 Mb to 10 Mb with 1.3crop, that definitely increases the amount of shoots before the buffer is full.

[@KobieMC]

@andrewleno591 Here's the figures I got with testing (I'll post firmware 2.0+). Number of shots in raw. Full image Raw: 33 1.3x crop Raw: 35 1.7x crop Raw: 36 Number of shots in Jpeg. Full Jpeg: 44 1.3x crop: 48 1.7x crop: 53