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Inspiring
April 16, 2011
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P: Display Focus Points

  • April 16, 2011
  • 178 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.

178 replies

Participating Frequently
August 27, 2014
Check out this free plug-in: http://www.lightroomfocuspointsplugin...
"Shows all focus metadata
Besides showing the position of the focus points used, provides all available info such as focus distance, focus mode etc. Also supports cropped images."
Inspiring
August 4, 2014


It would be great if Adobe Lightroom would identify the autofocus point(s) used in taking photos once the image is loaded into the LR program. (Breezebrowser does this). Could you incorporate such a feature in future LR updates?
Inspiring
May 23, 2014


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
Inspiring
January 2, 2014


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.
areohbee
Legend
February 10, 2013
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.
MarinoDiMare
Participant
February 10, 2013
Good idea. How about storing focus distance information?
Participating Frequently
January 23, 2013
Same for PENTAX camera's. Photome can display this data, so it is possible..
Inspiring
January 23, 2013
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.
dorin_nicolaescu
Inspiring
November 27, 2012
Merged to a wrong topic Please reference the new topic here: How about a "mask" to show areas of sharp focus?
Participant
October 5, 2012
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.