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V3.0.3, April 6, 2025

New features and changes:

  • Bugfixes
    • Update check results in internal error when remote version.txt file cannot be accessed #245

V3.0.2, April 4, 2025

New features and changes:

  • Bugfixes
    • ExifTool unable to read metadata on MAC #235
    • Evaluation of System display scale factor (call to REG.EXE) should not be done on MAC #240

V3.0, March 31, 2025

New features and changes:

  • Improved user interface

    • Multi-image processing: select multiple images in Lightroom before starting the plugin #210
    • Side-by-side presentation of focus point display and camera settings / focus information to support assessment of focus results #214
      • Focus information implemented for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Panasonic, Olympus, Apple
      • Pentax pending
    • User can choose focus box color and for 'focus pixel' points also box size #215
    • Improved logging to assist the user in understanding why for certain images no focus points can be displayed #217
    • Automatic sizing of plugin dialog windows according to Windows Display Scale setting #216
    • Automatic check for updates #224
    • Metadata Viewer: filtering of both tags and values columns supported #221

  • Camera specific improvements to focus point detection and display

    • Nikon: added full support of Mirrorless and all DSLRs with 39 or more autofocus points #203, #208, #209, #211, #212.
    • Sony: unified implementation for Sony Alpha and RX10M4 #213. Fixed coordinates of phase detection focus points #176. Fixed incorrect position of focus point display of in-camera cropped images (1:1, 4:3, 16:9) #228
    • Face detection frames added for Sony #222, Panasonic #223, Olympus #219, Apple #218.
    • Face and subjection detection frames added for Fuji #165.
    • Pentax: Fixed a problem that prevented the plugin from recognizing K-3, K-1 and K-1 Mark II #206.

  • Includes ExifTool 13.25 (Mar. 11, 2025)

  • Comprehensive user documentation

Supported cameras:

  • Canon

    • Mirrorless: entire R-series
    • DSLR: all EOS models after 2004 (starting with EOS-1D Mark II)
    • Compact: Powershot models after 2004

  • Nikon

    • Mirrorless: entire Z-series
    • DSLR: all D models with 39 or more autofocus points (from D3/D300 in 2007 to D6/D780 in 2020)
    • Compact: CoolPix models not supported

  • Sony

    • Full-frame: α7, α9, α1 bodies beginning 2018 (with α7 III / α7R III)
    • APS-C: α6100, α6300, α6400, α6500, α6600, α6700, ..
    • Compact: RX series, beginning 2015 (with RX10 II and RX100 IV)
    • Face detection frames

  • Fuji

    • X-series (from X100 in 2011 up to X-H2S today)
    • GFX-series
    • Face and subject detection frames

  • Olympus / OM System

    • DSLR: E-5, E-420, E-520, E-620
    • Mirrorless: entire E-M series, OM-1, OM-3, OM-5
    • Face detection frames

  • Panasonic

    • Mirrorless: entire LUMIX G and S series
    • Compact: FZ, TZ/ZS, LX series - all models after 2008
    • Face detection frames

  • Apple

    • iPhone (starting from at least iPhone 5)
    • Face/pet detection frames (visualizing "Person & Pets" information from Apple's Photos App)

  • Pentax

    • Display of focus points and supported models are unchanged with respect to previous plugin versions
    • Display of basic image information and camera settings
    • Pending (upcoming release): Review/revision of focus point logic. Display of advanced camera settings and focus information

V2.1.0, January 27, 2025

  • Full support of Nikon Z series (except Z50ii and Zf):
    • Z5, Z6, Z6ii, Z6iii (#198 ), Z7, Z7ii, Z8, Z9, Z30, Z50, Z fc - CAF and PDAF focus points
    • Z50ii, Z f - currently only CAF focus points (missing PDAF test files!)
  • Includes exiftool 13.15 (required for #198)
  • Windows: Fix an issue with blurry images / error message when launched in Develop module #199
    • When launched in Develop module the plugin switches to Library loupe view so that a preview can be generated if none exists.
    • Plugin returns to Develop after its window has been closed.

V2.0.0, January 6, 2025

  • Fix a problem on Windows, where the plug-in would stop with an error message on every first call of Show Focus Point for an image. (#189)
  • Olympus/OM-System: revert to display of center dot (#144)
    • Issue #144 and related fix was nonsense. For Olympus/OM cameras, the only useful EXIF information related to focus point is AFPointSelected. Drawing a box around this point has no added meaning in terms of focusing, but it helps to recognize / find the point more easily on the image.
  • Added support for Nikon Z30, Z fc, Z5, Z6 II, Z7 II (#192, based on existing implementation for Z50, Z6, Z7)
  • Improved log-file handling (#193): the plug-in log file now
    • can be accessed from Lightroom Plug-in Manager
    • will be deleted upon each start of Lightroom / plug-in reload
    • has been renamed from "LibraryLogger.log" to "FocusPoints.log"
  • Includes exiftool 13.10 (#188)
  • Plug-in updates and releases now follow a numbering scheme to keep track of versions and changes (#190). The plug-in version number can be found on the plug-in page in Lightroom's Plug-in Manager. Numbering starts with V2.0.0