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.
You said in another thread that Adobe tests plugins. Wondering if you could point me to where it says that, or if you know off the top what kind of testing they do.
as a focus point is no more than a region of the photo.
so we would need lightroom to be able to automatically create such a region from the makernotes in the XMP. That way it become standardized (region tagging is now a standard and include among other : face tagging, focus point,...) and would become readable by other software as well.
I wish that you implement "view focal poin" in the next version of bridge and Camera RAW. A shortcut to turn it on and off. This will improve my first look and rating on new imported photos.
Take a look at Aperture, I just love their focal poin.
My first choise is the combination of Bridge, Camera RAW and Photoshop.
Capture One reportedly has a new feature where a green mask is overlaid where the picture is most in focus (thumbnails as well). As an action shooter (sports, airshows, etc) that would greatly help identify OOF shots for disposal.
Although related, I see some important distinctions:
- Focus point display is more for learning - to try and understand the relationship between focus points used and what's actually in focus.
- Sharpness topography is more for culling - eliminating out-of-focus photos or choosing amongst a set of related photos...
Personally, I think these two features would complement each other very nicely.
Just being able to add a switchable overlay to the photo using the SDK would be a good step forward. Plugins could add whatever they wanted as a sidecar .PNG, for example. An additional 'decoration' icon would toggle each sidecar overlay.
I think it would be useful, not as some have suggested to find out what is in focus, but I look at the focus points when the image is NOT in focus in the way that I expect. Its part of a kind of forensic exercise: after I work out what I was doing, "what did the camera think it was doing then?". I'm not a professional, or even very good, and this kind of post mortem helps me understand how I have or may have screwed up.
I would like to be able to view the focus point on my images. This is the ONLY thing I miss since I started using Lightroom instead of Nikon NX2. This is particularly valuable when using focus tracking.
Lightroom does not display focus point for raw images making it difficult to determine why some pictures seem to be sharp and others not. It would be great if Lightroom could display focus point, with a display on/off toggle, for raw images.
As it stands now I launch Nikon ViewNX 2 to check focus/sharpness before importing to Lightroom 4. I will then delete directly out of ViewNX2. This is counter-intuitive to the Lightroom workflow and is frustrating.
This request has been in the queue since at least Lightroom 2 days so I would like to think it is getting close to implementation???
There has been revived interest in Capture One. Capture one has a wonderful feature that tells you what part of a picture is in focus. People are also saying that Capture One does a better job quality-wise with Nikon D800 RAW files. I will try it myself.
I've tried a lot Capture One in the past (few month last year), it is a very good software, especially for portrait/studio photographer, skin tones, A so good white balance tool too, tether...
On the over side Capture One does not work so well with Noise reduction and the Sharp tool is awful especially with low megapixel photo (< 25 Mp). I think that Capture One is more designed for medium format.
Capture One's interface is fluid, simple to use and to configure. It have a very personal workflow and no catalog tool. So with not a very strong organisation, a big mess comes very fast in your files.
I'm very exited to use the focus tool before install the soft, finally it is not so useful because is not so accurate, and I didn't use it so much.
I prefer to see where is/are my active AF point(s) and jugde by myself the focus area.
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