Lightroom imports my Sony A57 RAW photos cropped

Heya,

I've been trying to sort this out for the last couple of hours. I'm guessing my Sony A57 had an in camera crop to the images. When I transfer them to my computer I can see the full image with no crop when previewing, but as soon as I import it to Lightroom, it's the cropped version (so I assume the camera writes metadata to the ARW file). I tried opening the images in Sony's 'Imaging Edge Desktop' software, and they open fine, uncropped. Tried a save as of the ARW file and re-importing to lightroom, but the images are still imported cropped. I also tried to crop the image in Sony's software a tiny bit while keeping the 2:3 Aspect ratio, but that didn't work either.

I did try going to the cropped section in lightroom and clicking on 'Original' as suggested by a lot of people on here, but it doesn't work on old cameras. As far as I can see, any camera that supports versions before Camera Raw 7.2 and Lightroom (Classic) 4.2 can't do that solution.

I also tried the old DNG Recover Edge plug-in but that didn't work either.

I'm out of ideas. I tried so many things. The images are full size when previewing and editing in sony's software, but cropped in lightroom. Any ideas?

Thanks! 🙂