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Inspiring
April 16, 2011
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P: Display Focus Points

  • April 16, 2011
  • 132 replies
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Nikon cameras stores the focus point that was in focus and the exposure was taken. This would be extremely valuable to see for a sports/action/wildlife photographer.

132 replies

KushMastaFresh
Participating Frequently
May 28, 2018
This would be a helpful feature and has my vote. Downloading and installing the 3rd party plugin right after posting this
Inspiring
October 20, 2017
I have used this plugin for quite some time now, and it can indeed come in handy, but it shows what focus point was selected and used by the camera (pretty much what any will do) If you focus, then recompose then of course the focus point is not necessarily what is in focus - I have also added the focusmask plugin to Lightroom from CaptureMonkey, which ends up showing what in the image is in focus, not just what point was used.

http://www.capturemonkey.com/focusmask/
Participant
October 20, 2017
AS mentioned in a few earlier posts the use of Show Focus Points plug seems to meet many needs and maybe helpful here. Take a look at http://www.lightroomfocuspointsplugin.com 
Inspiring
October 11, 2017


After purchasing LR a few days ago, I was surprised and disappointed to learn that it was not able to display the camera focus point(s) on my RAW images.  I do bird photography, and found this very useful while using Aperture and Canon's DPP for editing.  I encourage Adobe to add this to LR.

Ed
Inspiring
August 19, 2017
Definitely would be better if built in for sure!
Inspiring
August 19, 2017
This looks great. Unfortunately, it's LR only, and I use CR. So I still want something like this from Adobe because they keep LR and CR in sync—basically.
Inspiring
August 19, 2017
I also use Show Focus Points - but also am starting to use Focus Mask, which shows what is in focus instead of what focus point the camera used.  Helpful if you focused and recomposed. 

http://www.capturemonkey.com/focusmask/
Inspiring
August 19, 2017


Show Focus Points in Library Mode: There is a 6-year old thread that talks about Lr showing focus points. I think it would be very useful to be able to toggle on and off the location of focus - for focus stacking or choosing among similar photographs. I use a plug in called Show Focus Points, but just seeing the focus points in Library view would be much more convenient. Thanks for considering this.
Known Participant
June 6, 2017
This was built into Aperture 1.0. So was the ability to customize keyboard shortcuts. I can't believe that TWELVE YEARS LATER Lightroom still doesn't have these. Another sign that Adobe puts software engineers ahead of photographers in its product design.
Participating Frequently
June 5, 2017
Except the Mac plugin on github, haven't most of the external focus point plugins disappeared?  No longer compatible....