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How do I find active AF points on 300d pics?


jenny_mckee

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There's only one thing more frustrating than getting AF wrong - not

knowing why it went wrong. I have heard that Canon embeds active AF

point and subject distance info in EXIF makernotes and that PS Raw

plugin throws this away (I think there was a thread on this).

 

Anyway, is there any software that will show me which points were

active? Ideally the software should graphically superimpose points

over the image, but a textual dump of point numbers will also be OK.

I need it so bad that I will even use the lousy Canon software if

that's my only option (Camera Window? Zoom Browser? File Viewer?

Some other junk?).

 

I shoot RAW but the question probably applies to both RAW and out of

camera JPGs.

 

Thanks a lot.

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Canon's RAW software (called File Viewer Utility on the desktop icon) that was included with my Digital Rebel and 10D, does have a feature that allows you to super-impose the focus point(s) and see which one was used. It's within the toolbar just above the various RAW settings. If the RAW conversion software itself wasn't so bad it would be a good tool, but I stopped using it as soon as I bought Capture One, which does NOT have that option, but is a much more user-friendly RAW converter.
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