retaining Q camera crop factor in DNG?

[Mikep996]

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Do any of the commonly available programs allow retention of the Q camera's crop factor when displaying the DNG image?   If I select a specific crop with my Q3, to me it's the same mental process as if I had selected a specific lens to take the shot with an interchangeable-lens camera.  I DON"T need or want to see a 28mm pic if I selected a 50mm crop.  

FWIW, I'd like to see that as an option in the camera menu - the DNG would be cropped to whatever size I selected..  But absent that, does it exist in any program?

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[Dazzajl]

It should be possible. Lightroom used to implement crops and film sims on my GFX raw files but I don't recall which version I was using then.

I should really investigate, it was a nice feature.

[LocalHero1953]

Lightroom retains the crop, as a 'non-destructive' crop: i.e. it imports the full frame raw image, but displays it as if you had cropped it yourself. You can keep that as your crop or adjust it yourself. 

My first editing action for all Q imports, however, is to remove the crop so that I start editing from the full frame. My crops in camera are not for compositional reasons, but for metering and AF reasons.

[Luke_Miller]

3 hours ago, LocalHero1953 said:

Lightroom retains the crop, as a 'non-destructive' crop: i.e. it imports the full frame raw image, but displays it as if you had cropped it yourself. You can keep that as your crop or adjust it yourself. 

And Capture One ignores the crop. On the flip side one can select display of the full (approximately) 25mm image which can be usefull if needed.