AnotherDave Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Any other a7s2 owners notice that, despite the fact the camera won't record 4k in APS-C internally, you can digitally zoom from 1.0x, 1.4x, all the way to 4x? What is the difference between a 1.5x zoom, and shooting in APS-C? Isn't it essentially the same thing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 I'd like to know too.. think someone on another thread said it's soft ( @jaquet ?) the a7s's clear image zoom was apparently great for 1080p. bummer they don't just have internal 2.7k apsc. there probably wouldn't be any rolling shutter advantage with this like before, but if the crop is still reading every pixel, it should be better than 1080p in crop mode in theory. @@Ebrahim Saadawi pointed out that if it's 1:1 in full frame, you can just crop to super35 in post from full frame and use the full abilities of the sensor, but of course it would be nice to frame in-camera. (also, is it actually 1:1 in full frame now? no minor downscale? I keep getting lost with 12, 8, 10 megapixels..) sorry to tag everyone in the forum.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherDave Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 But wouldn't any upscaled 2.7k to 4K image be a little soft?If you're cropping the center of the 4K image in post, you'd throwing out a lot of image data. I'd imagine it would look better to zoom in camera, then downscale to 2.7k in post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richg101 Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 the sensor area in aps-c mode (or any part of the frame less than the full sensor width) will be an upscale. you might have a 4k file, but it wont be from a 4k sensor area. You might find that a central crop in the zoom mode (2.7k upscaled to 4k) is higher res than the aps-c 1080p mode (2.7k downscaled to 1080p). or the clearview zoom might actually degrade the image too much to make the bypassing of the 2.7k-1080 downscale worthwhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherDave Posted October 21, 2015 Author Share Posted October 21, 2015 I'm going to test it out and see. I thought the upscaled 4K APS-C crop from the mk1 looked fine on my Shogun. I get that it is upscaled, but I'm wondering how different upscaled 2.7k recorded through clear view zoom could look versus an APS-C mode (which doesn't exist). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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