P: Display Focus Points

There is no doubt that NX 2 does a great job with NEF files ... but after all it should, it was developed by/for the camera manufacturer ...

I have been a lifelong Nikon shooter (since 1974) and have turned my back on Nikon software ... other than the fact NX2 does a really good job with fine detail out of the box and the U-Point technology ... from a workflow standpoint ... I haven't found a Nikon software option that didn't suck ... working with 500-1,500 images from a wedding or 3,000-5,000 images from an all-day sports tournament is a total nightmare ... whereas, Lr handles these jobs quite well ...

With the advent of the v2010 process and judicious use of custom Camera Calibration profiles ... I don't see much difference, if at all, when comparing images processed in NX2 or Lr3 ... though YMMV ...

"I am testing Nikon Capture NX2 right now; it works much better with Nikon RAW files" - other than support for in-camera settings and metadata, I'm not so sure about that statement - how do you figure?

Also, C1 noise reduction is not nearly as good as Lightroom.

Not trying to change your mind, but sometimes the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence...

Best to ya whichever way you go...

I am testing Nikon Capture NX2 right now; it works much better with Nikon RAW files and does everything I want except it's not as good at going through 500 files at a time. My guess is that I will transition to Capture NX2 or Capture One over time, and rely on Bridge and/or Expression Media for browsing and/or cataloguing.

1 thing that might tide you over:

ExifMeta can display the IDs of which focus points were active. So, you can make a cheat sheet for yourself: shoot a bunch of photo with different focus points selected, and use ViewNX or CNX2 to display the focus points and draw them, labeled, on the cheat sheet. After a while you won't need the cheat sheet anymore - or you can shoot it and import into Lightroom for reference...

I generally vote on something that I think would make LR a better product, regardless of whether I personally need it at the time.

Photographe - You come up with more good ideas than I do! ;-}

I have a Lightroom sidekick app that displays the focus points of the most-selected photo (presently works for Nikon D300 compatibles only, but will be user adaptable for other mfrs & models), unfortunately its not anywhere near ready for prime-time.

So, I don't know whether to vote for this or not. I think native focus-point display functionality would be good. So good that I've solved this problem for myself - and will be sharing when finished.

And yet, I acknowledge that not everyone will want to run the sidekick, and put up with its "seams"...

I wish there was a 0-10 voting scale, because I like this idea a lot, and would like to show support, but its not anywhere near top priority for me, because I've already got the aforementioned workaround for myself.

Cheers,
Rob