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Lightroom/Camera Raw: Display camera focus information
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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rob_cole_2221866
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I have a Lightroom sidekick app that displays the focus points of the most-selected photo (presently works for Nikon D300 compatibles only, but will be user adaptable for other mfrs & models), unfortunately its not anywhere near ready for prime-time.
So, I don't know whether to vote for this or not. I think native focus-point display functionality would be good. So good that I've solved this problem for myself - and will be sharing when finished.
And yet, I acknowledge that not everyone will want to run the sidekick, and put up with its "seams"...
I wish there was a 0-10 voting scale, because I like this idea a lot, and would like to show support, but its not anywhere near top priority for me, because I've already got the aforementioned workaround for myself.
Cheers,
Rob
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photographe
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rob_cole_2221866
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ExifMeta can display the IDs of which focus points were active. So, you can make a cheat sheet for yourself: shoot a bunch of photo with different focus points selected, and use ViewNX or CNX2 to display the focus points and draw them, labeled, on the cheat sheet. After a while you won't need the cheat sheet anymore - or you can shoot it and import into Lightroom for reference...
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photographe
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rob_cole_2221866
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Also, C1 noise reduction is not nearly as good as Lightroom.
Not trying to change your mind, but sometimes the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence...
Best to ya whichever way you go...
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clement_miller
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rob_cole_2221866
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Being miffed at Adobe, or frustrated while learning Lightroom, or missing a few camera features, may not be good enough reasons in the long run.
I use CNX2 regularly by the way, and think 95% of the time Lightroom does a better job with those NEF files.
Back when Lr was at version 2 (and the Nikon camera profiles for Lightroom were young), I more often favored the NX2 rendering, but now - just the opposite.
Now I mostly use Nx2 for cooked editing (as external editor after raw conversion in Lr) because of the U-points. If Adobe invented a better auto-masking technology, or Nik allowed multiple adjustments to be tied to U-point selections in their Photoshop plugins, I'd ditch Nx2 altogether, but alas: that is not the case...
Anyway, if you want to consider a split workflow (some Lr, some Nx2), and you can get around the mental block to using lr-plugins, consider NxTooey.
PS - If there's an NX3, the table may turn again... ;-}
(or if CaptureOne decides to compete seriously with Lightroom for non-PhaseOne camera customers. (CaptureOne only supports tethering and automated lens corrections... for PhaseOne backs/lenses).
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ulrich_von_agris
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rory_hill
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This is a big feature creep area - it would be a lot of work to implement this for every manufacturer and model. Even Nikon cannot do this for their own models. When confirming View NX showed the focus point it would not show it for some of my older D2h files.
I find it difficult to believe this feature is so important you would switch software. I suppose we all have different priorities.
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clement_miller
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Like Rory, I've been using Lr since the get-go ... and have processed well over 200,000 images since in Lr with the lion's share of those images from action sports ... not once did I need to reference a focus point in post processing ... with the average monitor size used today in the 22-24+ inch size, it's rather easy to determine if an image is in proper focus ... so not seeing a representation of the EXIF referred focus point wouldn't be a deal breaker ... there are far too many advantages in the glass being well over half full to seek other options that will reference the focus point ...
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pierre_courtejoie
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What do you say?
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rob_cole_2221866
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(As would focus/sharpness topography - but that's almost for an entirely different purpose).
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photographe
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eric_bayard
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ability to tag a picture region
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.
regards
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venche_jensen
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10 years ago
Take a look at Aperture, I just love their focal poin.
My first choise is the combination of Bridge, Camera RAW and Photoshop.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Focal point in Bridge and Camera RAWS.
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