Quack 'n' Run - Shooting Entirely in Crop Mode on the 5D mkII

[ted ramasola]

Since 3X crop is sharper and very minimal aliasing and moire I went out and tried to see whats it like to shoot entirely in crop mode.
Used a Tokina 11-16 as a 33-48 "normal" lens and an 80-200mm nikkor as a very long 240-600mm.

Also, for this piece I removed the VAF filter to get optimum sharpness.

CF Cards: KomputerBay 64gig 1000X

[edwmotion]

Since 3X crop is sharper and very minimal aliasing and moire I went out and tried to see whats it like to shoot entirely in crop mode.
Used a Tokina 11-16 as a 33-48 "normal" lens and an 80-200mm nikkor as a very long 240-600mm.

Also, for this piece I removed the VAF filter to get optimum sharpness.

Can you do the same test on you 7D?

[ted ramasola]

Can you do the same test on you 7D?

Working on it.

[dariSSight]

Since 3X crop is sharper and very minimal aliasing and moire I went out and tried to see whats it like to shoot entirely in crop mode.
Used a Tokina 11-16 as a 33-48 "normal" lens and an 80-200mm nikkor as a very long 240-600mm.

Also, for this piece I removed the VAF filter to get optimum sharpness.

Did you have to back away from the subject a great amount of distance in order to frame correctly?

[gtsofilms]

Hey Ted,

Just wondering if you had real world examples of bad aliasing and moire.  I've been doing a lot of tests and shot with 5d2 raw on a short as a second cam and only really noticed the aliasing when I was shooting a close up of a paper with a chart on it.  Most of the tests have been indoors.  Rarely do I have shots where I'm shooting directly at things that would naturally cause aliasing.  Maybe I'm just not seeing it?

Would appreciate any thoughts you have on this, thanks so much!

[ted ramasola]

Not much samples on my 5D2 since I have the VAF for it, but here are "real world" samples that I did to test with and without the vaf.
"real world" meaning, houses, high contrast water textures, fabrics, etc.

There was a project I did a couple of years back on the 7D where moire bit me as well at 2:58

The VAF is an essential tool to add flexibility in your shots when using the canon DSLR.

[ted ramasola]

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Probably better compression since I exported at 1280 at a higher bitrate to stay within my free account's limit