D7200 1.3X crop mode. vs DX mode..

[dannylightning]

75% of the photo has been cropped out so the quality goes way down at that point. i am just trying to figure out if one is worse than the other on a heavy crop.... here is one of the originals.

 

[jaomul]

There won't be a difference between the full and crop mode like that. Where you may notice a slight difference is if you frame similar in full and then crop mode. Same photo but one is 15, one is 24mp. By just cropping in camera without framing your just using a portion of the sensor and using the camera to crop, same as if you took shot and cropped in computer.

 

[runnah]

The image quality will be less. You are using the same senor. But only a portion of that sensor.

 

[Braineack]

if both are viewed at 100%, then both will look identical...