I don't use square format all that much, but It would be nice to see a few common crops included like 4:3, 5:4, 16:9, 2:1 as well as 1:1. Ideally, I'd like to see them displayed in the viewfinder, in both full frame and APS-C.
I grew up as a slide shooter, you see. I was so used to composing in the viewfinder that I find it hard to break the habit, even years into the digital age. I tend to pay attention to the longest edge of the frame, and if my subject fits, I press the shutter button, but often I find that I've left my self no room in the short dimension to crop to a different aspect ratio later. For instance if I shoot a person head to toe at the camera's native 3:2 aspect ratio, but then I want to turn the shot into an 8X10 print (5:4 aspect ratio), I can't because in order to make a skinny rectangle into a fat rectangle, I have to chop off the long end.
It would be most helpful to be able to see the final composition in the viewfinder, even if only as a guide and the image actually gets recorded at 3:2 anyway. But if the camera could record the file as 4:3, or 1:1, even better. Not only would that allow smaller files, faster write times, and greater buffer depth, but it also opens some new possibilities for DA lenses. A lens that might not fill a 36mmx24mm (3:2) frame, might fill a 28mmx28mm (1:1) frame. It would be a shame if they went through all the trouble to include a transparent LCD, and a crop mode dial, but then failed to take full advantage of it's potential.
Last edited by maxfield_photo; 03-14-2016 at 02:00 PM.
Originally posted by RonHendriks1966 
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