Originally posted by fstop18 Does the K-1 instruct you to enter some kind of crop mode? or Do you have to set the crop mode separately? or Do you just get what you see in the viewfinder?or do you get a full frame, but there is a cropped pic in the viewfinder? thanks.
If you leave the crop setting at its default (auto), the camera will automatically enter APS-C crop mode with a DA lens. You can also manually select either full-frame or APS-C for any lens via the control panel or the camera's physical settings dial.
When crop mode is on, the following happens:
- a thick box is shown in the viewfinder to depict the APS-C area (see here)
- the camera will capture 15-megapixel photos from a reduced 16x24mm (APS-C) sensor area
- live view will only show the APS-C image area
- (if enabled) APS-C lens corrections are applied, just as they would on an APS-C body
On a side note, select DA lenses (currently the DA* 200mm, DA* 300mm, DA 560mm) officially support both full frame and crop mode, and have a set of full-frame correction profiles in-camera. A disclaimer states that optical performance with these lenses is "not guaranteed" outside of the APS-C area, which basically means you may get more vignetting than you're used to when shooting wide-open.
Adam
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