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Am I missing something?

Thank you for the recent in-depth on the new Sony A7R IV (AP 3 October). As I primarily shoot nature photography and am looking at the possibility of upgrading to mirrorless, I was interested to read that the ‘wildlife photographer can benefit from the 26.2MP APS-C crop mode to add extra reach to lenses’. My question is this: Could I not take a photograph using the 61MP full-frame setting and just crop the photo later in Lightroom? Surely the end result would be the same, or am I missing something obvious?

John Howell

Yes you’re right, cropping a 61MP full-frame shot