cropping picture

[jdjr]

When I crop a picture in the camera, it changes from raw to jpeg. Am I loosing anything when this happens?

[A@EPOCH]

The short answer is yes... a RAW file has the entirety of data that was captured at the time of the shot, by cropping it to jpeg your going to compress it and get rid of some of the original data stored in the RAW file.

[kcoppock]

As epoch said, you're losing all of the RAW data. You're better off waiting to crop till you bring it into Photoshop, or your RAW editor of choice. Plus, cropping in RAW is reversible. I can't think of a single instance where it would be preferable to crop in-camera (or do any editing, really).

[jdjr]

thanks, I have elements, so I will crop there