Posted by Carol Nichols on March 16, 2013 at 5:54 PM
I use LR4 to catalog and process my images (on a PC). Often times when a photo is either particularly sharp or particularly unsharp, I want to check where my focus point was to see what I did right or wrong with the focus. As we cannot see focus points in LR, I then have to leave LR, open DPP and look at the photo there to see the focus point. A pretty annoying process. I have recently read of a program called "Open Directly" that is a LR plugin and will take your photo from LR and open it in any other program you want (such as DPP). It seems like this would be a good solution for me and I was wondering if anyone else has tried this program. Or have you found another solution to this problem? Thanks in advance for any information you may provide.
Posted by David Bostedo on March 17, 2013 at 4:18 PM
Hi Carol - Not using Lightroom or Canon, I don't have any direct experience. However, some searching turned up this Lightroom plug-in that can pull up metadata values that Lightroom normally won't show. (FYI I can't vouch for it since I haven't tried it at all.)
Supposedly, one of the values that can be pulled is the focus point selection, although it won't be graphical and might be just a code - i.e. it will say point "B2" or something like that. You would have to do some trial and error or find a map to know which point that actually is.
Other than that, I don't see any way to do it other than to open the file in DPP. (And I couldn't get the "Open Directly" page to work.)
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1 repliesSupposedly, one of the values that can be pulled is the focus point selection, although it won't be graphical and might be just a code - i.e. it will say point "B2" or something like that. You would have to do some trial and error or find a map to know which point that actually is.
Other than that, I don't see any way to do it other than to open the file in DPP. (And I couldn't get the "Open Directly" page to work.)