Is there a way to highlight in-focus areas out of camera?

susan2012 said:

I’m using a Sony A7rx and Lightroom, trying to get better at making my photos sharp. For whatever reason, I seem to miss focus a lot. It would help if I had a tool that showed me where my focus actually was in my photos,

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susan2012 said:

I’m using a Sony A7rx and Lightroom, trying to get better at making my photos sharp. For whatever reason, I seem to miss focus a lot. It would help if I had a tool that showed me where my focus actually was in my photos, in order to have insight on what I did wrong. I know one you usually just figure it out by eye. But it’d save me some time and trouble if I had assistance.

Cameras have focus highlighting. Is there a way to basically do the same thing in Lightroom or any other editing apps?

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gardenersassistant said:

susan2012 said:

I’m using a Sony A7rx and Lightroom, trying to get better at making my photos sharp. For whatever reason, I seem to miss focus a lot. It would help if I had a tool that showed me where my focus actually was in my photos, in order to have insight on what I did wrong. I know one you usually just figure it out by eye. But it’d save me some time and trouble if I had assistance.

Cameras have focus highlighting. Is there a way to basically do the same thing in Lightroom or any other editing apps?

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FastRawViewer (currently 15 UKP) does this. (See pages 107 and 108 of the user manual, which can be downloaded here.)

You can cycle around four views.

Contrasting, but not necessarily very sharp areas of the image

Small, acute, but not necessarily contrasting details

Both of the above

Neither

It works for JPEGs as well as raw files. In fact the above example is a JPEG processed from raw. The raw file shows no small, acute areas and hardly any contrasting areas. This is because I used a very small aperture which caused a lot of diffraction softening, blurring out a lot of detail. Here is what the raw file looked like with the Both option.

The out of the camera JPEG looks similar. Here it is with the Both option.

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susan2012 said:

For whatever reason, I seem to miss focus a lot.

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Guy Parsons said:

Thanks for the FastRawViewer heads up.

I learn something every day.

Or at least I learn to RTFM, I must never have read as far as page 107.... :-( Simply cycle through the looks via pressing the "P" key, what could be easier?

Long time user of that program but mostly looking for saturated channels etc via the companion RawDigger.

I have the cheapest Exposure edition and be warned, the 25% discount finishes on the 15th June, it's already that today here in Oz.

https://www.rawdigger.com/purchase and look for FastRawViewer Plus Exposure edition of RawDigger for a very useful pair of programs.

If only wanting FastRawViewer alone then the same 25% discount finishes on the 15th June.

https://www.fastrawviewer.com/purchase

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Guy Parsons said:

Thanks for the FastRawViewer heads up.

I learn something every day.

Or at least I learn to RTFM, I must never have read as far as page 107.... :-( Simply cycle through the looks via pressing the "P" key, what could be easier?

Long time user of that program but mostly looking for saturated channels etc via the companion RawDigger.

I have the cheapest Exposure edition and be warned, the 25% discount finishes on the 15th June, it's already that today here in Oz.

https://www.rawdigger.com/purchase and look for FastRawViewer Plus Exposure edition of RawDigger for a very useful pair of programs.

If only wanting FastRawViewer alone then the same 25% discount finishes on the 15th June.

https://www.fastrawviewer.com/purchase

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Jon555 said:

Guy Parsons said:

Thanks for the FastRawViewer heads up.

I learn something every day.

Or at least I learn to RTFM, I must never have read as far as page 107.... :-( Simply cycle through the looks via pressing the "P" key, what could be easier?

Long time user of that program but mostly looking for saturated channels etc via the companion RawDigger.

I have the cheapest Exposure edition and be warned, the 25% discount finishes on the 15th June, it's already that today here in Oz.

https://www.rawdigger.com/purchase and look for FastRawViewer Plus Exposure edition of RawDigger for a very useful pair of programs.

If only wanting FastRawViewer alone then the same 25% discount finishes on the 15th June.

https://www.fastrawviewer.com/purchase

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Can I ask for a small favour, if you have them can you calculate the SHA1 hashes for:

RawDigger-1.4.1.683-x64-Setup.exe
FastRawViewer-1.5.7.1636-x64-Setup.exe

E.g. using https://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/

As when I download RawDigger in Chrome it says it can't be downloaded securely and I get a different file (of the same length) as I get in IE/Edge:

RawDigger-1.4.1.683-x64-Setup.exe

Chrome:
MD5 = 789ab308a15b63b68640419023457de6
SHA1 = c3d466e061eb37d0614f850022a8c8aa92dc67e5

IE and Edge (also an old version of Opera pre-Chrome):
MD5 = 789ab308a15b63b68640419023457de6
SHA1 = c3d466e061eb37d0614f850022a8c8aa92dc67e5

FastRawViewer-1.5.7.1636-x64-Setup.exe

Everything:
MD5 = 88c410ccf519bcdaee8a101fdfe37bd6
SHA1 = 4fac30eb3e2cc380ce6e54cf14175377159954dc

Thanks

John

P.S. The Chrome download didn't upset VirusTotal at all.

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Jon555 said:

Guy Parsons said:

Thanks for the FastRawViewer heads up.

I learn something every day.

Or at least I learn to RTFM, I must never have read as far as page 107.... :-( Simply cycle through the looks via pressing the "P" key, what could be easier?

Long time user of that program but mostly looking for saturated channels etc via the companion RawDigger.

I have the cheapest Exposure edition and be warned, the 25% discount finishes on the 15th June, it's already that today here in Oz.

https://www.rawdigger.com/purchase and look for FastRawViewer Plus Exposure edition of RawDigger for a very useful pair of programs.

If only wanting FastRawViewer alone then the same 25% discount finishes on the 15th June.

https://www.fastrawviewer.com/purchase

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Can I ask for a small favour, if you have them can you calculate the SHA1 hashes for:

RawDigger-1.4.1.683-x64-Setup.exe
FastRawViewer-1.5.7.1636-x64-Setup.exe

E.g. using https://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/

As when I download RawDigger in Chrome it says it can't be downloaded securely and I get a different file (of the same length) as I get in IE/Edge:

RawDigger-1.4.1.683-x64-Setup.exe

Chrome:
MD5 = 789ab308a15b63b68640419023457de6
SHA1 = c3d466e061eb37d0614f850022a8c8aa92dc67e5

IE and Edge (also an old version of Opera pre-Chrome):
MD5 = 789ab308a15b63b68640419023457de6
SHA1 = c3d466e061eb37d0614f850022a8c8aa92dc67e5

FastRawViewer-1.5.7.1636-x64-Setup.exe

Everything:
MD5 = 88c410ccf519bcdaee8a101fdfe37bd6
SHA1 = 4fac30eb3e2cc380ce6e54cf14175377159954dc

Thanks

John

P.S. The Chrome download didn't upset VirusTotal at all.

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Guy Parsons said:

Jon555 said:

Guy Parsons said:

Thanks for the FastRawViewer heads up.

I learn something every day.

Or at least I learn to RTFM, I must never have read as far as page 107.... :-( Simply cycle through the looks via pressing the "P" key, what could be easier?

Long time user of that program but mostly looking for saturated channels etc via the companion RawDigger.

I have the cheapest Exposure edition and be warned, the 25% discount finishes on the 15th June, it's already that today here in Oz.

https://www.rawdigger.com/purchase and look for FastRawViewer Plus Exposure edition of RawDigger for a very useful pair of programs.

If only wanting FastRawViewer alone then the same 25% discount finishes on the 15th June.

https://www.fastrawviewer.com/purchase

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Can I ask for a small favour, if you have them can you calculate the SHA1 hashes for:

RawDigger-1.4.1.683-x64-Setup.exe
FastRawViewer-1.5.7.1636-x64-Setup.exe

E.g. using https://www.slavasoft.com/hashcalc/

As when I download RawDigger in Chrome it says it can't be downloaded securely and I get a different file (of the same length) as I get in IE/Edge:

RawDigger-1.4.1.683-x64-Setup.exe

Chrome:
MD5 = 789ab308a15b63b68640419023457de6
SHA1 = c3d466e061eb37d0614f850022a8c8aa92dc67e5

IE and Edge (also an old version of Opera pre-Chrome):
MD5 = 789ab308a15b63b68640419023457de6
SHA1 = c3d466e061eb37d0614f850022a8c8aa92dc67e5

FastRawViewer-1.5.7.1636-x64-Setup.exe

Everything:
MD5 = 88c410ccf519bcdaee8a101fdfe37bd6
SHA1 = 4fac30eb3e2cc380ce6e54cf14175377159954dc

Thanks

John

P.S. The Chrome download didn't upset VirusTotal at all.

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Good grief, that's too complicated for me. I need to read some more.

I simply download and install, I always use Firefox, no problems ever, no need ever for me to muck about with hash totals in the umpteen years of my computing.

A few minutes later, what I found....

RawDigger

MD5 789ab308a15b63b68640419023457de6

SHA1 c3d466e061eb37d0614f850022a8c8aa92dc67e5

FastRawViewer

MD5 88c410ccf519bcdaee8a101fdfe37bd6

SHA1 4fac30eb3e2cc380ce6e54cf14175377159954dc

Now I can go back to watching endless repeats of rubbish TV.....

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