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Inspiring
Apr 16, 2011 5:02 PM UTC
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P: Display Focus Points

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.

    Pinned Reply By Rikk Flohr-Retired

    Greetings all, 
     
    Updates for Camera Raw are available. The July release (18.4.1) has an update regarding this feature request. If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by pressing [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[R]. Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.
     
    Thank you for being so patient.

     

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    davidg19038978
    davidg19038978
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    May 11, 2019 4:09 PM UTC
    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.


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      Canon_Dane
      Participant
      Jan 17, 2019 3:27 PM UTC
      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.
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        jameskachan
        jameskachan
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        Jan 17, 2019 2:19 PM UTC
        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/
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          jameskachan
          jameskachan
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          Jan 17, 2019 2:16 PM UTC
          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.
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            KushMastaFresh
            KushMastaFresh
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            May 28, 2018 10:30 AM UTC
            This would be a helpful feature and has my vote. Downloading and installing the 3rd party plugin right after posting this
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            FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
            Inspiring
            Oct 20, 2017 11:33 PM UTC
            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/
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            SubiPete
            Participant
            Oct 20, 2017 10:25 PM UTC
            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 
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            FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
            Inspiring
            Oct 11, 2017 7:48 PM UTC


            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
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            FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
            Inspiring
            Aug 19, 2017 10:08 PM UTC
            Definitely would be better if built in for sure!
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            FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
            Inspiring
            Aug 19, 2017 9:57 PM UTC
            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.
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