musselwhizzle / Focus-Points

Plugin for Lightroom to show which focus point was active in the camera when a photo was taken
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Meaningfulness of center dot #144

Closed capricorn8 closed 4 months ago

capricorn8 commented 4 years ago

For some cameras (Olympus OM-D, probably other mirrorless cameras as well) the center dot doesn't make sense; it's rather confusing because it suggests that this spot in the image is particularly important in terms of focusing whereas it's not.

In case of Olympus OM-D cameras, the "AF Areas" information is just one of the predefined AF fields. The exact focus point can be anywhere within the rectangle; it is determined by the camera's AF algorithm and its exact position is not available in EXIF data.

Not sure if this is something that can be handled universally by the plugin, in a transparent manner. Maybe it's too complex. Another option would be to make it an option in the plugin whether to use center dots or not. Just as an idea.

(as a quick fix I have commented out this portion in the code I'm using)