show focus points - not showing...

Do you have crop ot straighten selected?

If you select either of them and possbile some other that truns off the display of the focus points. The best way I know to get them to show is to select the first choose from the icons at the top of the full size screen.

Yes with my Nikon D300 it shows all 51 focus points so that you know exactly where the lens is focused. I find it to be great tool.

Allan

Try displaying a photo in full screen.

Move cursor to top center of photo until a line of icons appear.

Select the left most one which is a small arrow pointing slightly left of straight up.

That get the focus points to display for me.

I know that drove me crazy until I discovered how to get them to show up.

Allan

Just a small point: it does not show (when it works), as you put it, "where my focus point was on the shot". It shows which focus point in the camera was used. (In this discussion, "focus point" is part of the camera. It does not mean "the object in your image that was focused on".) Since the camera can and often is moved after focus is locked, and since the scene may also change, it is possible and perhaps likely that the part of the image under the shown focus point does not correspond to the part of the scene that was used by the selected focus point for auto-focusing the camera.

That is the way Aperture works on my Nikon D300. It show all of the configured focus points up to 51 and color codes the one used in red. The other are white.

I don't know what Kirby is talking about. He seems to be answering someone else's question.

Allan

Well it certainly sounds like you found it there.

A suggested test would be to see if a photographer friend will share with you one of his RAW photo from a newer camera to see if they show up then. Since I only do Nikon I can tell you that D70 will work.

Never put it past reading the manual.

Allan

Allan Eckert wrote:

I don't know what Kirby is talking about. He seems to be answering someone else's question.

It reads pretty clearly to me.

The camera has a sensor. Additionally, it has an array of focus-sensors that are fixed in position relative to the main sensor. Which of these focus-sensors was used by the auto-focus system to determine the focusing distance is what is displayed by the feature under discussion.

The point I'm trying to make is that the "focus point" in the discussion refers to which exact focus-sensors in the camera were used to achieve auto-focus. Unless your camera and your subject did not move between the time of focus-lock and the time of exposure, there will not be an exact correspondence between the spot on the sensor that is associated with that focus and what is depicted under that spot in the image.

In my practice, I find it much more awkward and time-consuming to select a focus point while the shot is framed than it is to focus with the central cross-type focus-sensors, lock focus, and then frame the exposure. So for me -- and I think many others -- knowing which focus-sensor was used by the auto-focus system doesn't tell me anything: there is no correspondence between the focus-sensor used and the image.

In the linked blog post, the author shows an image with the selected focus-sensor super-imposed over the model's upper eyelid. IME, it is assuming too much to assume that the autofocus system used that spot on the model's face when it determined the focusing distance.

There are programs that will analyze the actual image and attempt to show what parts of the image are in sharpest focus. Aperture does not do that.

This is -- as I indicated -- tangent to the OP's question. But the way s/he worded the question made me think that s/he things there is a certain one-to-one correspondence between the focusing-sensor used and the objects depicted under that focusing-sensor when it is superimposed over the image. There is not. I found that important to know, and so I pass it along.

It works fine with my 1Ds Mark III.

You didn't by chance convert the images to DNG prior to import with one of Adobe's tools? The DNG container doesn't support focus point info and thus strips the data from the files.