P: Display Focus Points

Simple question: Please will Adobe explain why this is such a difficult feature to incorporate into LR (for both RAW and JPEG) as Aperture did. Surely the ongoing requests from users (Adobe's paying customers) spanning many years warrant some action. Ray Cary 

I'm pretty sure this plug-in doesn't completely work with my Sony A7iii in LR or LR classic.  

Yes, I really miss this feature!  I photograph birds and want to know where the camera was trying to focus.  That's because I am after the sharpest possible files, and sometimes want to assess my technique.

Adobe, PLEASE include this feature!

Olympus shows it  in the camera on the review screens, please include it in Lightroom

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