P: Display Focus Points

Hi,

I know the Show Focus Points Plugin and it is a really great thing made from a user instead of Adobe. But it slows down your workflow if you have to switch between Lightroom and an additional plugin-window. Also it is rather old, now. It doesn't support Nikon's new Z-system, for example. Here is the list of supported cameras:

Canon: EOS 1D X / 1D C, 1D Mark 4, 1Ds Mark3, 1D Mark3, 1Ds Mark2, 1D Mark2 N, 1D Mark2 - 5D Mark 4, 5D Mark 3, 5D Mark 2, 5D Mark2, 5D, 6D, 7D - 80D, 70D, 60D, 50D, 40D, 30D, 20D, 10D - 700D, 100D, 650D (Rebel T4i), 600D (Rebel T3i), 550D (Rebel T2i), 500D (Rebel T1i), 450D (Rebel XSi) , 400D (Rebel XTi), 350D (Rebel XT), 300D (Rebel), M, EOS 1100D, EOS 1000D. Generally all Canon DSLR, and also most Canon Powershot models, should work fine too.
Nikon: D4s, D4, D3S, D3X, D3, D2Xs, D2HS, D2X, D2H, D1X, D1H, D1 - D750, Df, D810, D800, D800E, D700 - D610, D600, D500, D300S, D300, D200, D100 - D7200, D7100, D5600, D5500, D5300, D5200, D5100, D7000, D5000, D90, D60, D40X, D80, D70s, D50, D70 - D3300, D3200, D3100, D3000, D40. Nikon 1 (mirrorless) series (1J1, 1J2, 1J3, 1J4, 1V1, 1V2, 1V3, 1S1, 1S2, 1AW1, 1J5) are also supported. Sony (new): Sony A77ii (beta)

I think this feature should be an essential part of Lightroom:
- it is very useful
- it should be feasible for Adobe as they have to deal with the RAW-format of every new camera, anyway.

Dear Adobe-team - please have a heart after so many years 😉

Best regards,

Heiko

Plugin works for RAW files from most Canon EOS, Nikon, and some Sony RAW files. 

I don't know if it works from camera generated JPG's, but it might. 

I would be surprised it if worked for JPG's generated from RAW files outside of the camera (EG Save as Jpg or Export as Jpg) as I suspect many programs would not pass the focus point info through unless the program itself made use of that metadata.

I'm on the road so can't test these scenarios.  Maybe someone else can run a few tests and see.

Plug in "Show Focus Points"  (http://www.lightroomfocuspointsplugin.com/) can show focus points for most (but not all) Nikon and Canon EOS DSLR's as well as from a few Sony models. 

Last major update was 2017 so is getting a bit old, but if you have a camera it supports it really works well and is quite informative.  Not only shows focus point used but also shows

• Camera make/model
• Lens Make/model
• Focal length
• Distance to focus point
• Exposure settings
• Was live view in use
• Focus mode (AF-S vs AF-C or Single shot, vs AI Servo on Canon)
• Focus area mode
• DOF
• Hyper Focal Distance
• Number of AF points in use (and how many were actually selected by the camera)
• Number of AF points actually achieving focus
• for each available focus point shows status of that focus point
     - Focus achieved on originally selected focus point
     - Focus achieved on not originally selected focus point
     - Inactive focus point
     - Focus point originally selected by user but not locked in picture

Image from my Canon 7d Mark II show in the plugin


Info box from above shot

If it were for Camera Raw as well, I'd get it in a heartbeat. I don't think there's any plug-in architecture for CR, though. (sigh) I don't like Nikon's software.

While waiting for Adobe to implement this, you might consider the Show Focus Points plugin.

Can the feature to display the Camera focus lock point be added to LR classic? I use canon DSLR and their Digital Photo software will show the focus lock point 

An option to display the used focus point that would be a great addition to Lightroom. I do manual focus stacking for landscape photographs and there is no way in Lightroom to identify which photographs are from different focus points.

Nikon's ViewNX has this feature so the information is available in the raw file.

I can see this being of use to sport, wildlife and protrait photograhers too. It would be a great help in the culling of the initial ingestion and then selecting the top picks for processing.

Completely agree. It's outrageous that Adobe hasn't integrated this feature yet. I also started a feature request for showing focus points years ago - no reaction from Adobe.

Focus Point display for any cameras that support it could be easily added as an info overlay by Adobe. It would be very useful for the technically minded photographers. 

Also deeply appreciated would be a "focus mask" kind of feature like what is found in Capture One Pro.

https://blog.phaseone.com/find-the-best-focused-images-in-no-time/

Focus points are very valuable to show, especially since most DSLRs and all mirrorless options (Nikon Z series) support a dense grid of focus points meaning the "Centre focus and recompose" style of shooting is being used less and less and will almost entirely disappear as mirrorless overtakes DSLRs.