1D Mark V Information [CR1]

[Panurus]

If I read :

"The 1D Mark V will have “built-in cropping”. You will be able to choose between full frame (32.4 mp), APS-??? (27 mp) and APS-H (21 mp).

The rumors looks not so crazy.

 

[Kernuak]

It may just be coincidence, but if you crop an APS-H sensor of 32MP to APS-C size, it is 21MP (or thereabouts). That could lead to a number of scenarios.

 

[macgregor mathers]

You can buy additional focusing screens to emulate cropping.

How would that work ?

The focusing screen would be partially black, causing the view screen to have a black frame, and somewhere after the readout stage the processor would realize the photo was taken with a crop-emulating-focusing-screen and throw the frame ?

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

Rumor is bullS___. If FF is 32 MP, then APS-C crop is 32 / 1,6 / 1,6 = 12,5 MP.

Now ... Imagine the guys with a FF Nikon D3S in crop mode. They get about 5.5 mp. Yet, we see people clamoring for this feature who can't do the math.

 

[Edwin Herdman]

You can buy additional focusing screens to emulate cropping.

How would that work ?

The focusing screen would be partially black, causing the view screen to have a black frame, and somewhere after the readout stage the processor would realize the photo was taken with a crop-emulating-focusing-screen and throw the frame ?

It could be done with small contacts on the edge of the screen that interface with the body, somehow or other.

Aside from the extra engineering it would take, personally I think it's a bad idea; it's just another part that would require very high tolerances to screw things up.

The edges of the screen wouldn't need to be black, though; it'd be best to have them transparent with just an outline (perhaps semi-transparent) so you get the advantage of seeing more outside the area where the frame will be captured.

 

[coltsfreak18]

You can buy additional focusing screens to emulate cropping.

How would that work ?

The focusing screen would be partially black, causing the view screen to have a black frame, and somewhere after the readout stage the processor would realize the photo was taken with a crop-emulating-focusing-screen and throw the frame ?

It could be done with small contacts on the edge of the screen that interface with the body, somehow or other.

Aside from the extra engineering it would take, personally I think it's a bad idea; it's just another part that would require very high tolerances to screw things up.

The edges of the screen wouldn't need to be black, though; it'd be best to have them transparent with just an outline (perhaps semi-transparent) so you get the advantage of seeing more outside the area where the frame will be captured.

Couldn't it be done in a similar way to production studio monitors (basically the same way you suggest) show what is actually being displayed by outlining the final view in a boxed outline?

 

[LetTheRightLensIn]

bah, at first peek it was like finally a good leak but then at a glance wow what a mess:

1. only 3fps 32MP FF?!?? if digic V is that slow Canon may as well paint over their signs with Nikon. That would be the single slowest speed increment for digic ever despite digic being not updated for one of the longest stretches and how badly video needs a WAYYYYYYYY faster digic than that. So they may as well paint over with Red/Nikon/Sony/Panasonic then.

2. 32MP does NOT scale to 27MP APS-H and 21MP APS-C! He forgot that you need to square the crop factor! So that right there, if #1 was not enough, seals the deal.

CR -1000 truly
CR1 is laughable, its CR0

 

[hambergler]

Rumor is bullS___. If FF is 32 MP, then APS-C crop is 32 / 1,6 / 1,6 = 12,5 MP.

Now ... Imagine the guys with a FF Nikon D3S in crop mode. They get about 5.5 mp. Yet, we see people clamoring for this feature who can't do the math.

The D3s has Crop mode of both 1.2x so 12.5/1.2/1.2 = 8.7 MP and 1.5 x which = 5.6 MP

with a 5 D mark II it would just be nice to have options to increase the FPS

1.6x = 8.4 1.3x = 12.5
1.5x = 9.4 1.2x= 14.7
1.4x= 10.8

with a 32 or 46 MP sensor all this would get even better