Free Lightroom Plugin

<p>This is kinda fun.</p>

<p>http://news360.com/article/258136084#</p>

<p>It's kind of cool but for what use? The area you want in focus either is or isn't. So now you see where the camera focused (as I can on my LCD). So what do I do with this info after the fact in LR? </p>

<p>Great, thanks for sharing. Occasionally when Iwanted to know which focus point was used I had to use Canon's DPP but having the plugin is nice.</p>

<p>Pretty nifty. That's one of the features I liked in Nikon View that was missing from Lightroom. Very handy for solving problems, such as trying to figure out why some photos were out of focus. Saves the drama of worrying about whether it was the equipment. Usually it's user error - I forgot to switch from group to single sensor AF, or to the appropriate single sensor.</p>

<p>I also wish someone would develop a LR plugin that reveals more camera proprietary metadata, particularly in-camera JPEG settings. It would be very handy for duplicating the same look that I already like, but with the extra finesse of working from the raw file to apply noise reduction, etc.</p>

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<p>It's kind of cool but for what use? The area you want in focus either is or isn't. So now you see where the camera focused (as I can on my LCD). So what do I do with this info after the fact in LR?</p>

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<p>I'm thinkin' I'll use it for DOF familiarization. If I focused here and this is out of focus (or in focus), I should have used a different aperture. I do those kinds of guestimations on almost every shot and now I have a way to grade myself. I have a DOF app on my iPhone but I'm usually too hurried or too lazy to pull it out and I guess instead.</p>

<p>Not for Fuji X100S</p>

<p>I like it. I shoot a lot of action pictures and its interesting to see exactly where I miss the target and it gives the hyperfocal distance along with some metadata. I have shot sports mostly with a single point for years. I can now see where I missed and focused on something in the background and I can experiment with multiple points to see if that is more effective and teach this old dog some new tricks. It could possibly help me improve my keeper rate when shooting swim meets. I shoot from the deck and I would like to compare a single focus point with multiple points to see which is more effective. I have a large meet with five hundred swimmers coming up. Along with that I am curious as to how the new 7D II will work with 64 cross point half shutter press tracking works to improve capture rate. I do use seven frames per second for starts and I would like to see if I can get more in focus in a given sequence. Thanks Dave for pointing it out. </p>

<p>Nice. Thanks for the tip. This beats having to switch to DPP when testing, practicing, or trying to solve a problem.</p>

<p>Can't see how it works if you focus and recompose. It will show the correct AF point but it will no longer be over where you focused.</p>

<p>Good point. I've been trying to use the focus point selection feature recently and I guess I'd better keep doing it.</p>

<p>Interesting, the only way I could figure out to save the image with the points was to [CTRL] [PRT SC] then paste it into a photo editor and crop. Could be useful for explaining a focus issue in a discussion.<br>

Such as Robin's comment:</p>

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<p>Can't see how it works if you focus and recompose.</p>

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<p>No, it just can't, but it is pretty obvious in this shot what I must have focused on before recomposing.</p>

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