P: Display Focus Points

I went ahead and issued a separate 'Idea' for a sharpness topography feature.

Although related, I see some important distinctions:

- Focus point display is more for learning - to try and understand the relationship between focus points used and what's actually in focus.
- Sharpness topography is more for culling - eliminating out-of-focus photos or choosing amongst a set of related photos...

Personally, I think these two features would complement each other very nicely.

My vote would go for the Capture One approach. A quick representation of the in-focus areas would rock.

Capture One reportedly has a new feature where a green mask is overlaid where the picture is most in focus (thumbnails as well). As an action shooter (sports, airshows, etc) that would greatly help identify OOF shots for disposal.

I wish that you implement "view focal poin" in the next version of bridge and Camera RAW. A shortcut to turn it on and off. This will improve my first look and rating on new imported photos.
Take a look at Aperture, I just love their focal poin.
My first choise is the combination of Bridge, Camera RAW and Photoshop.

This request is related to the following one :

ability to tag a picture region

as a focus point is no more than a region of the photo.

so we would need lightroom to be able to automatically create such a region from the makernotes in the XMP. That way it become standardized (region tagging is now a standard and include among other : face tagging, focus point,...) and would become readable by other software as well.

regards

I've only seen it when uploading... - my guess is they just give it the "once over" - but I really don't know.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange...

You said in another thread that Adobe tests plugins. Wondering if you could point me to where it says that, or if you know off the top what kind of testing they do.

One option if you can overcome your resistance to plugins is to use NxTooey to open files instantly in ViewNX. Just set a path to ViewNX instead of CaptureNX. Or, if you own CaptureNX2 you can just use that for viewing focus points...

Yep.

I just installed View NX2; only problem is View NX2 does not support DNG. So I will have to stop converting to DNG (which I really should stay away from anyhow--not enough compatability).