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.
Given that LR6 can recognise faces (supposedly, haven't used it myself) the facial recognition features/points could be combined with the focus points to become a very useful tool/filter that could indicate if the face was in focus. Of course there are always times when you *don't* want a face to be in focus but most of the time this *is* what you want...
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.
Many people have asked for Lightroom to display focus points -- see this feature request in the official Adobe feedback forum: Lightroom/Camera Raw: Display camera focus information | Photoshop Family Customer Community. Please add your vote and opinion to that topic, which will make it (a tiny bit) more likely Adobe will implement the feature. This forum is primarily user-to-user and product developers rarely participate here, though they are active in the official feedback forum.
I strongly recommend that you add your opinion and vote to the existing feature request in the official Adobe feedback forum, as suggested above: Lightroom/Camera Raw: Display camera focus information | Photoshop Family Customer Community This forum (and the corresponding Photoshop forum) are mainly user-to-user forums in which Adobe product developers rarely participate. Adobe has asked that all product feedback, bugs, and feature requests be posted in the official feedback forum. It's unlikely that posting in the Photoshop forum will have any influence on Adobe.
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.
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.
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!
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.
You could ask the author of the plugin mentioned earlier in this thread for Sony support. I'm not aware of any other focus-point plugins for LR, and Adobe hasn't shown any interest to date.
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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