SL2-S APS-C crop factor...

[miatadan]

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I down loaded the owners manual and on sensor format APS-C gets dropped to 10.3 MP.

Just was thinking I could get 75mm focal length approx from my 50mm lense.

Is the 10.3 MP not useable if doing 8x10 prints later?

Dan

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[FlashGordonPhotography]

Probably. I've done so with much much less. But as always, it'll be subject and intent dependant. Sometimes you'll notice more usable resolution but often not.

Generally, I'd usually think a 12x8 is good at 10MP.

Gordon

[hoolyproductions]

I can't comment on print sizes (I rarely print) but this shot shows the cropping potential of to SL2-S and how it can be taken to extremes.

50mm SL APO at 1/320s f4.5 ISO 100

 

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[hoolyproductions]

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[Stuart Richardson]

9 hours ago, miatadan said:

I down loaded the owners manual and on sensor format APS-C gets dropped to 10.3 MP.

Just was thinking I could get 75mm focal length approx from my 50mm lense.

Is the 10.3 MP not useable if doing 8x10 prints later?

Dan

You will be fine for small to medium prints. You are probably better off just using it as a 50mm and cropping though. Putting it into APSC means you are forced into using that smaller crop, whereas if you just shoot it at 50mm and crop in in post, you have access to all the information. The only reason not to do this would be if you want to have it cropped in in the viewfinder as well, or if you were shooting jpeg without post processing.

[hoolyproductions]

If you shoot in RAW you still get the full frame image from an APS-C shot in Lightroom, it just starts out with the APS-C crop 🙂

[TeleElmar135mm]

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The Leica M8 had 10,3 MP - so nothing to say more  

[Luke_Miller]

My first digital body was the Nikon D1 with 2.7 MP.  No problem with 8x10s.

[Dr. G]

Using an APO Summicron-SL lens on the SL2-S, you really shouldn’t have any issue if you’re working in APS-C mode.  The way those lenses render makes the SL2-S images look like they’re much higher resolution.  I’ve cropped in even further than the APS-C equivalents with no issues.