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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.

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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.

Note: Camera Raw is the Edit/Develop Engine powering the Lightroom clients. New Edit features must be built in Camera Raw before the Lightroom clients can adopt them. Unburdened by the additional cataloging, syncing, and other workflow functionalities, Camera Raw can move more quickly to get these desired new features into your editing workflow. Our goal is to eventually port these features into the Lightroom clients.

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CromCrom

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Focus points not useful if you focus and then move to compose your shot. Far better would be image analysis showing what's in/out focus and by how much.

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ssprengel

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It is a bit clunky and slow, but there is a plug-in that works for quite a few Canon and Nikon cameras:

http://www.lightroomfocuspointsplugin.com/#faq

This same link to a plug-in has been repeated in earlier posts within the thread you've been merged into.

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JacquesCornell

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Apple's Aperture did this for years. Hard to believe it's a technical challenge for Adobe. I recently migrated from Aperture to Lightroom, and I'm frankly stunned that Adobe doesn't get this. I love LR's merge to HDR and pano features, but there are just too many headslap moments like this. The lack of 3-up view is another major step backwards in my culling workflow. Honestly, what Adobe needs more than engineers is some real-world (not studio) photographers consulting on product design. From a UI standpoint, Aperture was brilliant. LR not so much. I mean, jeez, no customizable keyboard shortcuts? Really?!?! I better shut up now before it gets ugly.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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I use Bridge to organize and review images. It provides all the information I need, with the exception of showing the camera focus point. When taking upwards of 1000 images per day, it would be extremely helpful in my first cull. Nikon ViewNX2 shows the focus point, but has many disadvantages when used in that manner. The focus point is captured in the metadata, so it should be a relatively simple addition.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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Where's the best place to post a features wish list? If Lightroom could support reading the focus points from the camera metadata, it seems like it would be easy to run an action to check those focus points for sharpness and automatically reject any images that aren't sharp. What about blink detection or facial recognition and auto tag for naming? If FaceBook can do that, I don't see why Lightroom can't. How about selecting a group of photos and having Lightroom check the faces and finding the best one? I work on a lot of other photographer's photos and for us that shoot events and a lot of photos... these would be huge time savers!

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Canon_Dane

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Hi!

Just wanted to chip in as one of the persons really missing the possibility to natively show focus points directly in Lightroom, without having to use the available plugins, which I find rather cumbersome and slow.

I recently moved from Aperture, where this has been available for ages. That said, of course I find Lightroom much more powerful.

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Canon_Dane

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Hi!

Just wanted to chip in as one of the persons really missing the possibility to natively show focus points directly in Lightroom, without having to use the available plugins, which I find rather cumbersome and slow.

I recently moved from Aperture, where this has been available for ages. That said, of course I find Lightroom much more powerful.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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It's a reasonable request to help in processing workflow.

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pacomoll

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To the Adobe CC designers: Would be very useful to add the "Show Focus Point" to Photoshop and Lightroom; is it possible?

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John Waller

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Have you tried this 3rd party plug-in? Only works with Canon and Nikon cameras.

Show Focus Points Plugin for Lightroom

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pacomoll

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Thanks, John, downloded your solution for Lightroom. I usually use Photoshop over LR so I keep my inquiry for the Adobe developers hoping they can include this useful tool in future updates.

Francisco

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