I'm really struggling to understand your logic here... are you saying that, for some reason, you would want to crop the images down to just what's covered by the AF sensor?
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I want to shoot really tight shots, sometimes using the extremities of the frame as the focus area
typically half length uprights of models walking, running or even sprinting or cycling towards me
so his/her head would be right at the top of the frame and not in one of the zones
I want to focus on the face not the body because at a wide ap the face will be OOF
But this doesnt appear to be possible with the D3 (versus the D2x or D300 where the focus areas are more spread as a % of the chip area)
So I have to frame loose and crop back in post - leaving me with a smaller file than the D300
Attached is an image, A is a full frame off a DX camera, B is what I would like to be able to shoot full frame - no cropping with the D3 but wont be able to
I would call frame a 'a bit loose' - I know many wouldnt
I am very obsessional about shooting full frame at 12mp when I am used to 22mp
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