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Help with movie cropping r6 mark ii and sigma 18-35

FreezeCsc92
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Hello, I need a little information. Basically, I have an R6 Mark II
with a Sigma 18-35.
I can't turn off movie cropping.
I have an official Canon EOS R adapter ring.
And I wanted to know if it's possible to have automatic cropping with the Viltrox EOS R?
Thx 🫡

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p4pictures
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The Sigma lens 18-35mm f/1.8 is a DC lens, that’s Sigma terminology for a lens designed for crop sensor cameras. This means it was not designed to cover the whole image area of a full frame sensor. The lens reports that it is for crop cameras to the camera and the camera automatically selects crop mode. 

If the Viltrox adapter does not pass that info to the camera then the camera might shoot in full frame mode, but you’d expect to see some significant vignetting of the captured images / movies. 


Brian
EOS specialist trainer, photographer and author
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Thx for the reply

Yes, I understand, but there's no concrete information telling me that with a Viltrox adapter I won't get automatic cropping.

The issue will be who owns the responsibility to decide this, Sigma - it's their lens, Viltrox - it's their adapter, Canon - it's their camera.

In such case even if the Viltrox adapter does not pass the cropping information from the lens to the camera you are still very likely to experience significant vignetting of the image. In the past I tried some older Sigma and Tamron lenses on a full-frame EOS R with the Canon adapter. Those lenses did not report they were cropped lenses and vignetting was quite noticeable at some settings. I wrote about this on my blog in 2019

https://www.p4pictures.com/2019/06/eos-r-crop-lenses-aps-c/ 


Brian
EOS specialist trainer, photographer and author
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“ Yes, I understand, but there's no concrete information telling me that with a Viltrox adapter I won't get automatic cropping. “

Third party lens manufacturers tend to only use the EF mount, almost never the EF-S mount.  If the EF mount works on all Canon DSLRs, why make one that doesn’t work on all cameras?

The bottom line is the lens has the EF mount, despite being a crop sensor lens.  The camera will not automatically detect a crop lens and switch to crop mode.

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Okay, thanks for your reply.
So I bought the Viltrox EOS R adapter and I'll see.
I'm really looking for that strong vignetting to give a graphic style to my videos.

But honestly, do you think there won't be any cropping with the Viltrox?
Does the R6 Mark II really not automatically crop directly on the camera body?
There isn't much information on this subject.

You might find the vignetting changes depending on the focal length. 


Brian
EOS specialist trainer, photographer and author
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If the lens tells the camera it's a crop lens, the camera will only work in crop mode. As you have seen with the Canon adapter this is the case, so the lens must be signalling that it is a crop lens. I would be surprised if the Viltrox adapter does not pass that same information.


Brian
EOS specialist trainer, photographer and author
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I saw this video that shows there's no auto crop, but it's the R6, not the R6 Mark II, so I don't know if it's the same.
https://youtu.be/qQpX4j293oQ?si=D12Lkh2srBv1aLr2

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