P: Display Focus Points

I come from Apple Aperture, after switching to LR5 I have hardly looked back. however two things I miss every day. the ability to display the active focus points, it can be done, it works fine in Aperture. And I miss a magnifying glass so you can quickly spot check a photo without having to enlarge the entire image.

Add the two things, and LR is the best RAW converter there is.

Kind regards Henrik

I feel that seeing the autofocus point used by my camera serves as a great learning tool when I'm critiquing my pictures and determining why my picture did not come out as sharp as I would have expected. Other software programs use this feature and I find it very helpful.

Focus distance was eliminated because it was not reliable enough. - it worked ok some-times/some-cameras, but others: not ok. To work-around you'll need a plugin like ExifMeta.

Good idea. How about storing focus distance information?

Same for PENTAX camera's. Photome can display this data, so it is possible..

This feature should not be implemented just for Nikon cameras. Canon cameras also store full focus point information, including the entire grid layout, the grid points as enabled by the selected AF mode, as well as the currently selected AF point(s) and the AF point(s) that actually locked on. All of this information could be created to replicate the viewfinder HUD in Lightroom, which I would personally find very useful. Ever so often my camera will miss focus, and it would be useful to know what points actually locked, and determine if it was simply a camera miss, or whether I had accidentally moved the AF point off the subject, etc.

Merged to a wrong topic Please reference the new topic here: How about a "mask" to show areas of sharp focus?

Lightroom 4
Please add focus points ...this because it is easier and faster to see if i had a correct focus on the " moving " object ..or not !
I am sorry but I found it handy in Aperture and used it when photographing birds or animals .
Now that i've switched to LR#4 i miss the option.....it makes my workflow slower.

89 people like the idea but Adobe has not weighed in.

Display camera focus information would be very nice to have in Lightroom.