Agreed. Aiming for less cropping is generally the best, but yeah I don't understand either why people get all purist about cropping. Imagine it's 1980 and you're an award winning photographer. You have your leica or whatever, prime lens of course, and you're walking around in the city. More @Wikipedia
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