Is the full cropped frame showed on viewfinder of APS-C cameras?

5 years 2 weeks ago #634484 by Bill Rosen
In general will 100% of the cropped image be shown on the viewfinder?  I ask because I shoot with Nikon D7500, and had the D7100 before, both have a 1.5X crop right.  When I take photos, and then later in when I download the photos, the frame looks a little different.  Now I don't know if that is me, or if what you are seeing is only a portion of the total crop the camera is saving??    Am I see 100% of that?


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5 years 2 weeks ago #634572 by Nikon Shooter
For the makers, a cropped image in the VF
is way less challenging to produce than FF.
If not 100% then very, very close!

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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5 years 2 weeks ago #634579 by Ozzie_Traveller
G'day Bill

When you read the specs for your SLR, somewhere it will say something like '92% image displayed". This comes from colour slide days when the frame of the slide covered a tiny bit of each side of the image. Photographers back then were 'offended' by framing the subject to 100% and losing that tiny bit of edge material into the cardboard or plastic slide mount

In today's world it is debatable as to whether it's still needed - but it seems to follow on with all SLR viewing systems

Hope this helps
Phil from the great land Downunder
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Phil from the great land Downunder
www.flickr.com/photos/ozzie_traveller/sets/

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5 years 2 weeks ago #634687 by garyrhook
Every Nikon DSLR lists, on its nikonusa.com web page, the viewfinder frame coverage.

The D7500, for the full image, is listed at 100%. The D3500 is listed at 95%.

You're not losing anything.


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