My PowerShot G9X Mark II does it.
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My T8i / 850D may do it as well, but I’ve never explored any of the JPG options. Other than shooting some quick identical snaps of my fireplace (right after I got the camera) to compare relative file sizes between RAW & JPG, I don’t think I’ve ever shot another JPG.
Where I live, none of the scenery is good enough to make a good image SOOC. It has to be “Photoshopped” LOL. It’s a never-ending process of pulling a rabbit from a hat, or making a silk purse from a sow’s ear (pick your metaphor)…
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A friend explained that Canon does it to cut out what might be marginal, by their standards, areas of the image.
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It is customary for some cropping to take place for one reason or another. That is why when people use RT (or another raw processor), the first thing they discover is that the output image is larger. One can even remove the default border setting for a few more pixels, but then the demosaicing at the edges may look funny.
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Rosendin County Park, Morgan Hill, CA
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Nice shot!
There’s some good new stuff in it too - new modes in the highlight reconstrucion module which are great, and I’m a fan of the new sigmoid module (optional alternative to filmic rgb).
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Went on the London Eye last week, and I appear to have been more interested in the engineering than the views…
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@hatsnp , nice photos. I see the second one was an X-T3 with a zoom at 600mm. If you don’t mind me asking, how was the focussing done pls?
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It was regular AF-C with the lowest focus points enabled and the smallest zone setting. I don’t remember the specific settings but I’ll get to you later when I’m at home and can pull it from the metadata. Besides that it was taken in CH 11fps.
EDIT: Here are the specific settings that were used.
- AF-C Tracking Sensitivity : 1
- AF-C Speed Tracking Sensitivity : 1
- AF-C Zone Area Switching : Auto
- AF Area Zone Size : 3 x 3
Hope that helps.
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I wonder how long this thread can get before it explodes in discourse… 
To add to the fire, here’s a representative image from our most recent work session on the railcar:
That oh-so-rotted piece of wood is the an ‘outside sill’, part of the framework for the car’s floor. This side of the superstructure will have to be jacked up a small distance so that member can be replaced. Note the lighting; the exterior is painted by the sunlight through the tent, and the interior is painted with a new set of LED arrays that light up the inside quite nicely. I don’t even bother messing with white balance in these images…
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I hope none of the pieces fly out of my screen…
We can always make a part 2!
That does look rotten… 
(the wood I mean not the image 
)
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It sat on the ground in a farmer’s field for quite a while before the railroad rescued it. The inside sills are in relatively good shape, fortunate, as those are harder to tease out from under the car…
These photographs capture things before they’re torn apart, so they can be re-created later. For instance, in this photo the spacer next to the protruding bolt has a 1/4" tenon inserted in a corresponding mortise in the sill. Only the spacers next to such bolts (which run the width of the car) have such attachment; the next images are close-ups of that artifact so they’ll be placed and dimensioned properly later this year when the replacement sill is fabricated. Shooting these, resolution and contrast are important; color, much less so…
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Thanks @hatsnp . It certainly focussed well.
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I picked up a Fujinon XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS WR lens the other day and took it out for the first time yesterday. I’ve never had a lens this wide before; regardless of all I have read about wide-angle shooting, it seems that I need to make all the mistakes myself! This image is a pretty severe crop to get rid of a bunch of distracting junk. I was grateful for the OIS, because I was shivering as the sun dropped.
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…aaannnddd yet another sunset, directly into the heart of Mr. Sun, no less. LOL This was a last minute run down the road before dinner time. I looked for another composition (any composition!) but the light was going and I found nothing else. Given the dynamic range I tried to preserve a little shadow detail.
Canon T81 / 850D, Sigma 17-70 f2.8-4.5 DC Macro, ART 1.18.1, Affinity Photo
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After a night of freezing rain. Our power went out three times, but came back on after only seconds. Meanwhile, in the rest of southeast Michigan, about a half million people are without power.
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White skies at night?
Nothing too wild, just a shot of my neighborhood sky tonight. This was spur of the moment, but I like the way the tree anchors the moving clouds. Shooting after dark is a challenge for this camera, particularly at an ISO / EV gain necessary to minimize (although not entirely eliminate) star trailing. I guess I need to start using the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer 2i Pro that I bought a year and half ago (but have never used)…
Canon T8i / 850D, ART 1.18.1, Affinity Photo 2.1 beta
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Yeah, me too. Same device, same state…
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