X-Pro 2 viewfinder question

I was about to add that the full frame would probably still be saved in the raw file, maybe without any cropping information, since cropping indications are usually dependent on your choice of raw file renderer, but I realized I have never tried alternate formats on the X-Pro2. And when I went to check this, I could not find any way to set up 1:1, much less 4:3 or 16:9 on mine.

Read the manual, went through all the menus. No format command.

Can anyone help me see what I am missing. Mostly, format changes are not something I would do, but 1:1 with wide angles is sometimes appealing.

scott
 
I'm just running some comparisons between a b&w portrait shot with a Rolleiflex TLR and one shot with the XT2 set on square b&w jpeg plus RAW. I would use the jpeg just for reference and go to the RAW file processed through Silver Efex2.
 
scott kirkpatrick said:
I was about to add that the full frame would probably still be saved in the raw file, maybe without any cropping information, since cropping indications are usually dependent on your choice of raw file renderer, but I realized I have never tried alternate formats on the X-Pro2. And when I went to check this, I could not find any way to set up 1:1, much less 4:3 or 16:9 on mine.

Read the manual, went through all the menus. No format command.

Can anyone help me see what I am missing. Mostly, format changes are not something I would do, but 1:1 with wide angles is sometimes appealing.

scott
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Yes, the full frame is saved in the Raw file. The cropping information is there, so Lightroom will show the square cropping, but you can remove it and still use the full 3:2 frame if you decide you don't want the square.
 
Fotobot said:
Yes, the full frame is saved in the Raw file. The cropping information is there, so Lightroom will show the square cropping, but you can remove it and still use the full 3:2 frame if you decide you don't want the square.
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Interesting. The Ricoh GR does not do this to my knowledge, I will have to check.
 
Aha! Thanks for the pointer. That first line was greyed out when I reviewed the menus, because I only save the raw files. I added a jpeg and the line lit up. I set 1:1 and got the 1:1 framelines. The saved jpeg as indeed square. The raw file was full, but in Capture One, which I use, the square crop suggestion does not appear as a starting point. (Something to take up with PhaseOne.) But when I switched back to only saving a jpeg, the image size returned to default 3:2.

This might be one of those cameras in which you need to save a big jpeg if you ever want to blow things up to see if your shot is sharp. Is that the case?

scott
 
That's unfortunate. I much prefer raw only, and squares are a big part of my work. I suppose it is the center of the full frame, so not crazy difficult to crop in a raw converter, but that would annoy me I think.
 
@scott kirkpatrick, I don't think you need to save a big jpg. You can make a plenty sharp file from the Raw, and you can judge sharpness pretty well from the Raw. Shooting a large jpg together with the Raw does allow you to zoom in more on the back of the camera. I hardly ever do that, so maybe it's not as important for me. But I am shooting jpg + Raw just to see how the jpg files look with the various film simulations. This way I have the best of both.

@sepiareverb, It's not a problem as you can shoot Raw + small jpg (if you don't want a large jpg). That way you get the square format and the square framing in the viewfinder, and it becomes your starting point if you use Lightroom to work on the Raw file. The small jpg hardly takes up any space.
 
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