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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 835346" data-attributes="member: 50197">You will not gain anything by switching to DX mode with a full frame lens. When you put the camera in DX mode it only uses around half the sensor and limits your images to about 12 MP. You can achieve the same thing by cropping a full frame image in post editing. You may find in post that you want a little less severe crop and preserve more of your original image. The only way it makes sense to me is if you really want a preview in the camera of what a crop frame would look like, but you won't gain any advantage in the final image. If you need longer reach either a longer lens or perhaps a tele converter would be the best option, IMO. Perhaps look into a rental for the cruise. If you are going to be taking a lot of wildlife photos in the future, a long tele is a must. My 200-500 pretty much lives on my Z8. If I were buying today, I would spend the extra and get the Z 180-600, but the 200-500 works very well with an FTZ adapter. You should be able to program your Z5ii to save one RAW file on the primary card, and a JPEG copy on the secondary card. That's what I do with my Z7ii and Z8. The JPEG card gives me a convenient backup, and will hold quite a few images, the 24MP Z5ii should hold nearly twice as many.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 835346, member: 50197"] You will not gain anything by switching to DX mode with a full frame lens. When you put the camera in DX mode it only uses around half the sensor and limits your images to about 12 MP. You can achieve the same thing by cropping a full frame image in post editing. You may find in post that you want a little less severe crop and preserve more of your original image. The only way it makes sense to me is if you really want a preview in the camera of what a crop frame would look like, but you won't gain any advantage in the final image. If you need longer reach either a longer lens or perhaps a tele converter would be the best option, IMO. Perhaps look into a rental for the cruise. If you are going to be taking a lot of wildlife photos in the future, a long tele is a must. My 200-500 pretty much lives on my Z8. If I were buying today, I would spend the extra and get the Z 180-600, but the 200-500 works very well with an FTZ adapter. You should be able to program your Z5ii to save one RAW file on the primary card, and a JPEG copy on the secondary card. That's what I do with my Z7ii and Z8. The JPEG card gives me a convenient backup, and will hold quite a few images, the 24MP Z5ii should hold nearly twice as many. [/QUOTE]

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