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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 143189" data-attributes="member: 9240">You lose absolutely no IQ with cropping ... ever.  Where you will potentially lose IQ is in resizing.  You have what you have, and with the D600 (vs. the D7100) you have less than 1/2 of the MP's when shooting in DX mode (which you don't have to do).  But the (literal) bright spot is that each of those pixels is much larger and allows so much more light in, reducing noise and grabbing that much more light information.  So unless you need pure image size, the image quality is bound to be better all other things being equal.  The only time the number of pixels might help is when the size of your crop is so small that even within DX mode you start worrying about resolution in terms of "pixels per bird".</blockquote>