Is there a way to get the actual focus green square to appear on PC?

I can see it in the playback IN the camera, but is there anyway to see it on a PC??

I know nothing about tethering, but I am guessing it is there? Or in the Olympus Workspace (which I haven't downloaded yet...)?

If you can in Oly Workspace, I don't know how....

I used to see it in OV3 but it wasn’t consistent. I never determined why it showed up some times.

janeenadamsmartin said:

I can see it in the playback IN the camera, but is there anyway to see it on a PC??
I know nothing about tethering, but I am guessing it is there? Or in the Olympus Workspace (which I haven't downloaded yet...)?

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EXIF App by Softmatic for the Mac shows the focus point. Perhaps there is a similar app for the PC?

/Bill

Oooh, thank you, that was enough of a clue that I have a bunch of things to look through now for external apps!

For the focus point to work your screen would have to be "touch" enabled or be able to use the cursor.

Photome may show the focus point, however, when I downloaded the exe from the Photome site (safe according to Norton) and then clicked the install, the installation was blocked by Norton.





Norton sometimes finds things that are not Trojan horses, but the dell.xps...exe looks like it may be a real Trojan.

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drj3

I don't want to set the focus point, I want to see the focus point that the camera ultimately used, just on a bigger screen than my camera LCD. I don't have a touch screen on my desktop, but since it is a static image, I think it should work... I hope so... but I could always use an excuse for a bigger monitor, lol..

https://github.com/musselwhizzle/Focus-Points

@WGHalvorsen gave me the clue to look for "focus point" and I found threads on it which mentioned this LR plug-in. I just installed it and it works!

janeenadamsmartin said:

https://github.com/musselwhizzle/Focus-Points@WGHalvorsen gave me the clue to look for "focus point" and I found threads on it which mentioned this LR plug-in. I just installed it and it works!

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Thanks, it works for RAW files and DXO exported DNG files to LR. It doesn't appear to work with Tiff files.

If you regularly use tiff files, you probably don't need to see where your focus point was... lol.

janeenadamsmartin said:

If you regularly use tiff files, you probably don't need to see where your focus point was... lol.

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I hope I don't need software to tell where I focused. I hope it is obvious from the image. I just included the information about Tiff files and the DNG files for anyone who might download the software.

I always shoot RAW, but for typical files I export 16 bit Tiff files from Olympus WS, since I much prefer the Olympus RAW converter to the Adobe converter for my E-M1.2.

I have LR 6.14 which was the last computer based LR which will not open my E-M1.3 RAW files so I checked a Tiff file to see if it worked.

If the file has a high ISO or high dynamic range, I open it in PhotoLab 4 and I can export that file with Deep Prime denoise and Lens Correction Only as a DXO - DNG file to LR and it can read the focus point on these files, so I checked the software for DNG files.

Olympus Tiff files EXIF contain the AF Points Selected data from the RAW file, but do not contain the AF Areas from the RAW and that information is needed for this software to indicate the focus point.

The problem with Photome might be because it hasn't been updated since 2009.

It's a shame nobody has written a program to do this - all the info is available from Exiftool.