Does GH2 have 2x ETC on still picture like G2's?

[stonebat]

Just out of curiosity. Thanks.

 

[evanflys]

Yes it does. I posted some pics starting half way down here You lose a bit with it but it's still plenty cool!

 

[stonebat]

is that 1:1 crop for taking still pictures? i don't want 2x digital zoom that is highly lossy.

 

[evanflys]

It crops the sensor but it's not digital zoom. Since you use less sensor, you do get less data, so for stills ETC is lossy but not that bad. You can't do RAW however.

 

[stonebat]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Ben_B]

A crop of the sensor is by definition lossy....and there is really no reason to do it for stills when you could just crop in post...

 

[stonebat]

Often I carry only 20mm pancake. It's a bit short for still picture sometimes when I can't get close enough to subjects. I could do the post cropping easily from Lightroom 3, but I'm hoping that ETC on still pictures can help more accurate auto-focusing.

 

[evanflys]

Often I carry only 20mm pancake. It's a bit short for still picture sometimes when I can't get close enough to subjects. I could do the post cropping easily from Lightroom 3, but I'm hoping that ETC on still pictures can help more accurate auto-focusing.

I did a little experiment with the difference between using ETC, and leaving it full sized w/out ETC and cropping in post ............... I didn't see any difference to be honest. It seemed the loss was the same between them. It wasn't a big thorough pixel peep however!