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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 594505" data-attributes="member: 9240">Unless you're on a tripod or otherwise dealing with a fixed subject for a long time then cropping in camera is a complete waste - particularly with the D500. Sparky, you can turn on damn near everything and I dare you to come up with a real world situation where you're using a decent XQD card, hitting the 200 frame stop, and filling up the buffer so you can't immediately start shooting again, that altering the crop factor will fix in any meaningful way.For me the only time in-camera cropping makes sense is if you're beyond your reach and shooting JPEGs that are getting transferred as is with minimal to no editing. If you're shooting RAW it's completely unnecessary because you're going to have do at least something in post so you might as well crop too (you can program a 1.3X crop in a preset and apply it at import if even that is too much work for you. LOL).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 594505, member: 9240"] Unless you're on a tripod or otherwise dealing with a fixed subject for a long time then cropping in camera is a complete waste - [B][I]particularly with the D500[/I][/B]. Sparky, you can turn on damn near everything and I dare you to come up with a real world situation where you're using a decent XQD card, hitting the 200 frame stop, and filling up the buffer so you can't immediately start shooting again, that altering the crop factor will fix in any meaningful way. For me the only time in-camera cropping makes sense is if you're beyond your reach and shooting JPEGs that are getting transferred as is with minimal to no editing. If you're shooting RAW it's completely unnecessary because you're going to have do at least [I]something[/I] in post so you might as well crop too (you can program a 1.3X crop in a preset and apply it at import if even [U]that[/U] is too much work for you. LOL). [/QUOTE]

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