Topic: Display active focus points in LR 2.0? (Read 2777 times)

Tim Gray · « **on:** August 16, 2008, 08:38:41 am »

Camera is the Canon 1ds3 - is there anyway to display the active focus points in LR?

TIA.

john beardsworth · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2008, 08:54:01 am »

No, it's proprietary info. Would be good to have though, and I'm pretty sure there are applications which do so (Breezebrowser?)

John

Tim Gray · « **Reply #2 on:** August 16, 2008, 10:08:05 am »

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No, it's proprietary info. Would be good to have though, and I'm pretty sure there are applications which do so (Breezebrowser?)

John
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Thanks, I'm trying to diagnose some focus issues and that would have been useful.
Canon DPP does as well...

john beardsworth · « **Reply #3 on:** August 16, 2008, 10:17:15 am »

Well that isn't exactly a third party app! IIRC Chris Breeze worked out how Canon stored the information, but Adobe have to be a cautious about reading proprietary information. Hopefully their Eric Chan will read this thread and comment.

John

madmanchan · « **Reply #4 on:** August 16, 2008, 02:15:14 pm »

Hi John, my understanding is that Breeze Browser uses the Canon SDK for raw conversion and obtaining info about the image, so it's able to extract the focus info that way.

Camera Raw / Lightroom don't use the Canon SDK (doing their own raw conversions instead) and thus don't have access to this info.

robackja · « **Reply #5 on:** August 20, 2008, 04:13:09 pm »

I've previously mentioned this in the adobe lightroom forums on adobe.com and i got really harsh answers from users... stuff like:

"I focus and recompose, the focus points are then inaccurate"

So because that is the way that one particular person shoots, LR should not consider this option. Non-sense. I think adobe should really provide this. It would be really nice.

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