Sony A6500 clear image zoom

[Apollwnios]

Sony clear image zoom with 70-200mm f4 and 18-105mm f4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Username]

Greatly under-appreciated feature. I use it. 

[tinplater]

Isn't this just cropping of the image by the camera? 

[a6k]

On the one hand, it is not "just" cropping by the camera. On the other hand, for stills, in my own testing, it is inferior to doing the cropping yourself even though by doing  it yourself you get half the pixels linearly and .25 for the area.

 

I have tested this on my a6000 and more recently on my new RX10 III. 

 

It is useful for video, of course, but in my personal opinion, it is not as good as post-processing.  I'm not able to see enough detail in the provided images so this opinion is based on my own testing of static objects, carefully focused. I confess to being a pixel peeper for things like this.

[Username]

...................  I'm not able to see enough detail in the provided images

so this opinion is based on my own testing of static objects, carefully

focused. I confess to being a pixel peeper for things like this.

  

Agreed there is a loss of detail compared to non-zoomed

images. But I seldom care about detail as long as an image 

LOOKS sharp, not soft. Losing some details doesn't bother

me. I just don't miss what is not there. OTOH I do object to 

seeing stuff that clearly doesn't belong there introduced into

an image. The latter includes mushiness. What I like about 

Clear Image Zoom is that the details which remain .... those 

that are not lost .... do appear sharp, not mushy. Photos are  

illusions. If it's a credible illusion, I'm way cool with that. 

[BasiliskFilm]

I imagine if you only shoot JPEGs then letting the camera scale up a cropped Raw image before doing the JPEG conversion might lead to better quality than scaling the JPEG with associated artefacts. 
Even more true with video.