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kunio0
Participant
May 30, 2025
Question

Crop Tool Presets + Camera crop metadata issue

Hello everyone, as a user of lovely fuji x100v I often use digital crop function that makes from 35mm a 50mm or 75mm lens.. this function crops the jpegs but in raw it is stored just as metadata.. my problem is that when these raw files are opened in bridge it doesnt read the crop info and shows it as full image.. also when converting via adobe dng converter from  raf to dng it doesnt detect the crop so my composition is off .. 

So I was hoping adobe could fix this because the metadata is there and I could have a cropped image already with option going back ( like a preset already applied) .. there is one unofficial plugin for ligtroom and one other manufacturer implemented this in his dng converter but it is apllying also demosaic or how is it called and the dng is 30% bigger in size so a no go for me.. 

My simple workflow is bridge + camera raw.. 

Also it would be cool if there was option to save a manually cropped edit as preset because camera raw ignores manual crop settings and doesnt save them.. only zoom function can be saved but 150 zoom (max settings) are not enough to achieve 2x crop that was originally applied so everytime I want to crop something I have to copy settings from image that has crop or manually crop the image .. I guess this could be implemented also as a quick button .. when you load an image (3:2) you would have buttons in the interface to crop it with one click to your prefered setting without going into crop mode this way I could try different 35mm 50mm 70/85mm "zoom" compositions with few clicks and find out new looks 

 

Thank you 🙏

3 replies

kunio0Author
Participant
October 5, 2026

One year has passed and still no fix for this problem
There are already Lightroom extensions that can read digital crop from camera and implement crop into raw file https://github.com/omuratak/fujifilm-teleconverter-plugin
https://johnrellis.com/lightroom/anycrop.htm

but there is no solution for adobe camera raw / adobe bridge / adobe DNG converter
solutions - implement into dng converter option to read crop metadata from camera - Example Iridient X transformer app that can do this but also uses demosaic of raw file 
or implement it into adobe bridge/camera raw
 

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Paul-M
Legend
October 6, 2026

Hi -  I have a Fuji X100VI so I understand your issue, to my knowledge the best you can do currently is create a crop preset (a settings file) in Adobe Camera Raw. You will have to simulate a 50mm and 70mm crop then individually create a settings file in Adobe Camera Raw for each. Then you can batch apply a 50mm or 70mm crop to multiple RAW files by selecting them and importing the file (load settings). I’m guessing you might be already doing this workaround if you need moire info let me know.

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kunio0Author
Participant
October 6, 2026

Hello Paul, thank you for suggestion.. The problem is.. I was traveling for 2 years and had thousands of raf files that I converted to dng .. I realised later something is off and that bridge/camera raw doesnt load the digital crop.. so I had to crop manually which I wanted to do with presets.. but in crop tool you can zoom maximum to 150 which is crop 50mm, you cant go further and last time I wanted to make digital crop presets I realised that you can´t save such preset, the crop setting wont be saved..   so the only solution now is to buy iridient x transformer which sadly does  rasterize the image and makes it bigger but properly loads exif data..  but it´s still not a great solution as the bigger size is not a solution ..

how did you manage to make crop presets? I work in adobe bridge and camera raw not in lightroom

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