Nikon just announced the long-awaited D3S and it looks like there is one real piece of innovation in this camera.
I’m not talking about Nikon boosting its already best-in-class low light sensitivity to a staggering extended ISO of 102,400. Nor that they bumped frame rates to 9-11fps, added 720p video or left the megapixels of their sensor unchanged at 12MP.
Their true innovation is their new 1.2x crop mode. While full-frame is great for wide-angle photography, such as taking landscapes, the crop sensors shine in Action and Wildlife photography, when you need every millimeter of telephoto reach that you can get. With their new crop mode, you can reduce the area of the sensor that will be used to take the image to 30×20 mm. Your megapixels will go down as well, from 12 to a bit more than 8x. But you get the benefits of a 1.2x cropped sensor, so your 400mm telephoto lens becomes an effective 480mm lens. If you don’t need it any longer, simply switch back to full frame resolution. Effectively, this will eliminate the need to carry two camera bodies, one for wide-angle and one for action/wildlife.
I hope Canon will implement crop modes into its bodies as well, preferably into the Canon 5D Mark III, whenever it’s coming out.
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“Effectively, this will eliminate the need to carry two camera bodies, one for wide-angle and one for action/wildlife.”
What nonsense. You can always crop in Photoshop afterwards for the identical effect. What the 1.2x mode could give is smaller files, and maybe a faster frame rate.
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