Forced Aspect Ratio for RAW files

Question

Here's my dilemma: I shoot with Olympus OMD mirrorless cameras. There are times I switch from native 4:3 to 16:9 aspect ratio when shooting raw stills for inclusion into audio slideshows or videos. The problem I can't seem to overcome is Lightroom (5.7 and 6) wants to crop my RAW files to 16:9 and I can't find a way to keep it from doing that. I want to control that myself. Is there an obscure setting some place that prevents Lightroom from doing the crop on ingest?

F. McLion · Accepted Answer

It's best to crop to 16:9 in LR and not in the camera.Lightroom: LR4.1 RC2 messing up Olympus RAW files | Photoshop Family Customer Community Images unexpectedly cropped in Lightroom

Anonymous · Answer

The challenge with the initial "correct answer" is that makes for composing for full screen on a shoot more difficult as I want the frame filled with what I'm shooting in 16:9 yet I want to ingest native 4:3. My old copy of Capture One 7 Express doesn't crop my images during import and I find it remiss on Adobe's part to impose that on users like myself. Let me shoot the way I want and leave my imported images untouched and let me make the cropping choice in post. I begrudgingly have moved back to Lightroom 6 for other features like printing books through Blurb but this one issue of cropping my raw images on ingest has left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

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