
This is a RAW image opened in Capture One.

Most RAW processors respect this embedded crop, as does Capture One, but where Capture One differs is that it will also display the image area outside the crop. These have an embedded crop that excluded distorted areas outside the corrected image area. This extended zoom range is made possible by the camera’s digital lens corrections, which are embedded not just in its JPEGs but in its RAW files too. It was shot on a Panasonic TZ200, a camera with a 1-inch sensor that has a 3:2 native aspect ratio and a 15x optical zoom. The image in this example shows this taken to the extreme. Can Capture One see more than your camera shows you?.I’ve seen DxO PhotoLab do this to a degree, but the program that shows this most graphically is Capture One. All processors will respect the image crop embedded in the photo by the camera, but sometimes the software will be able to show the wider image area still present in the RAW file. It depends on your RAW processing software. This extra image area has been captured by the camera’s lens and sensor but discarded by the firmware as being outside of the design parameters of the lens and camera’s digital corrections… or simply doesn’t fit the camera’s native aspect ratio. Where the camera is applying digital lens corrections, there may be more ‘image’ outside the regular image area that you wouldn’t normally see. You might assume your RAW processing software shows you everything captured by the camera, but that’s not always the case.
