Change focus points in viewfinder

How do I change the focus points while looking through the view finder and not the live view? I have a rebel T5.
Thanks!

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John Hoffman
Conway, NH
1D Mark IV, Rebel T5i, Pixma PRO-100, MX472

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Dim focus points in viewfinder

Is it possible to brighten the focus point(s) in the viewfinder.
Using the Canon 3Ti.
Wearing tri-focal glasses it's hard to see them at times (depends on lighting, background, etc.).
Canon 3Ti, EF 50mm f/1.4 USM, EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II, EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS II, 320EX Speedlite
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Welcome to the site, iClick.
You can't brighten the points, but you could try this solution:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/820968-REG/Hoodman_HEYEC18G_Glasses_Model_Hoodeye_Eyecup.html
Or
http://www.adorama.com/HNHEYEC18LG.html
I am told these work, and the investment is small...
Scott
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Focus point grouping for 6D with firmware change possible?

Does anyone know if it is possible with a firmware update to create an option to use just the center 9 focus points? This would make it similar to the 7D center group. I think this would be useful for some action shots. This might be one feature that may help me commit to Canon for my next camera. I am currently looking to upgrade to fullframe, but Canon seems to have taken out one feature too many in the 6D and leaves me stuck in the middle. I don't know whether to jump ship and and hassle with selling my beautiful 70-200 II zoom and the rest of the gear. As a consumer, I still like the option of a flash in certain bright background situations. Thanks.

I'm afraid you'll have to go to 7D or 5DIII to get Zone Focus or Expansion Points such as you want to use. 6D doesn't have it and I really doubt it ever will... that would be a pretty radical change to try to do via firmware... might not even be possible. But, hey, I'm no expert on writing firmware and some people manage to do some interesting camera hacks (search for Magic Lantern, for example).
But frankly, I shoot subjects like you want to shoot with just a Single Point most of the time with my 7Ds. Before that I did pretty much the same with 50D, 30D, and 10D. It takes some practice, but is the best way to insure focus is right where you want it as consistently as possible. Some days I take a couple thousand images and, with 7D and it's very quick AF, typically 97 or 98 percent are correctly focused, and I figure most of the missed focus shots are my fault, not the camera's. I had a few more missed focus with 50D and earlier, but still managed upward of 90 percent most of the time (when I was in practice).
I only use the Zone and Expansion modes occasionally on 7D. Mostly when the subject is large or is against a plain or very distant background. Otherwise the camera still might choose to focus using the wrong point.
The 5D Mark II has a form of expansion points, but it's done with 6 "hidden" Assist Points that aren'tt shown in the viewfinder, are clustered right around the center point, and only work in AI Servo mode. It's sort of as if the entire Spot Metering circle is one bid AF point. Unfortunately, this only moderately helps the 5DII with AI Servo/moving subjects. Tracking moving subjects just isn't the 5DII's forté. Only three of it's AF points are the "better" dual axis type (the visible center one and two of the hidden ones). The rest (8 visible and four more hidden ones) are single axis... some horizontal, some vertical. Heck, all nine of your 50D's AF points are dual axis type, so to some extent it has a better sports/action focus system than the 5DII. I'm not knocking the 5DII, it's a great camera for other things.... just not so much for sports/action shooting.
On 7D, 5DIII the difference between Zone Focus and Expansion is that in Zone any of the points or even multiple points can be the "starting point" for focusing. In other words, it's like one large focusing point that will pick up on whatever object covered by any of the points is closest (like a smaller version of All Points/Auto Selection). In Expansion you choose a single "starting point", but the camera can switch to using one of the adjacent points if you don't keep the starting point on the subject.
I'd recommend 7D... there are some other advantages to using a crop camera for sports, as well. It's sort of like having a "free" 1.6X teleconverter and, since a lot of sports photography is done with telephoto lenses, a cropper helps leverage your longer lenses for all they're worth. For example, I use a 300/4 IS on 7D a lot for sports, easily handheld. If I were using any of the full frame models, to fill the viewfinder the same way I'd have to get out the 500/4 iS and a solid tripod to put it on (or at least a monopod).
Yes, it's got higher frame rate, too... Though to be honest I try to avoid using it too much... 8fps fills up memory cards and hard drives fast... and can mean a lot more time spent sitting at a computer editing the results. I found 7D an excellent upgrade from 50D. The 7D has very fast AF, ideal for AI Servo work... It's got a discrete chip handling AF, much like the 1D series have. AFAIK, 6D and 5DIII don't have that.
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Looking at FOCUS POINTS changes Time and Date

When I select VIEW FOCUS POINTS it changes the Time and Date information in the Metadata. I have seen it happen twice now. The images were taken with a Nikon D90 while in Australia. The first time that I noticed this I was in Hawaii and just looking at the FOCUS POINTS changed the Date and Time to Hawaii time. It happened again in Maryland and the time zone was changed to Eastern Daylight Time. To put the images back in the proper place I have had to change the DATE and TIME.
Has anyone seen this?
Roger

Thanks Tony,
Did you try this:
Shoot a photo with your camera set to your local time.
Import into your Mac set to the same local time.
Quit Aperture
Restart
Set the time on your Mac to another time zone.
Open Aperture.
Open the photo.
View the Focus Points
Then see if the time metadata is changed.
Mine changes and the place of the photo in the line-up of my folder changes.
It still does it after I updated to Aperture 3.0.3 from the 3.0
I know this is a lot of steps in the test process, but this is how it happens for me.
If this doesn't work I'll have to look into a new Nikon for you and a flight to Hawaii.
Cheers,
Roger

TS2518 I have Aperture 3.1.2 running on os 10.6.8. Aperture does not show focus points on my Nikon D7100, nor does it recognize the RAW files. Will upgrading Aperture allow me to see the focus points and RAW files again? Also, do I need to upgrade my os f

I have aperture 3.1.2 running on os 10.6.8 mac book pro. Lost some features in aperature when I upgraded my camera (no longer shows focus points, does not recognize RAW files) Would like to upgrade to aperture 3.5, but do not want to loose any pictures in my extensive library. Do I have to upgrade one vesion at a time, or can I jump? I believe I also need to upgrade my os, but not sure which to do first? Any help would be appreciated...

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Nope, you need 10.7.
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No, you set that up yourself.
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You can convert them to be used in iCloud.
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Show focus points in lightroom

I have Canon DSLRs and the EXIF metadata clearly contains the focal points that the camera focused on (I can see it with Canon Digital Photo Profiessional)
I'd like to have the same view in Lightroom, i.e. Lightroom gives me a "viewfinder-like" overlay that shows the focal points which the camera was using.

That query shows no results (for me).
This one shows other messages with focus points in their text:
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Is there any way of aesthetically changing the points that display non-focus areas to a light grey instead of red. Or better yet increase the intensity of the points that are in focus.
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Well you should obviously see that the photo was recomposed, because you see the photo :-P
I'm thinking of the situation where you're importing older archived shots from several years ago - I've just recently finished importing shots dating back to 2001. I'm pretty certain there could easily be shots in which it might not be obvious that that you'e recomposed after setting the focus.
If the AF point is a selected point and is off in the sky but your subject is in focus, you could probably draw the conclusion.
Agreed - that would be an easy one to judge. But your landscape shot might be composed of the near foreground through to distant rolling hills - and little or no sky. So if the focus point appears in the middle, was the shot focussed on the the boulders 10' ahead to the left or the bushes 30' off to the right - or in the middle?
But what you're asking isn't really possible
I wasn't asking for it - I realised long ago the impossibility of dependably recording this info in every situation. I was merely pointing out that the possibility existed.
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Metadata - Canon Focus Points : can LR show them ?

I shoot using Canon 400D and also have Canon's Zoombrowser software. One thing that Zoombrowser does that I use occasionally is to show the auto-focus points active for a given shot.
Is there anyway to get Lightroom to show the focus points in a similar manner ?
I'm guessing there probably isn't, I can't see that info' anywhere in the metadata using Exiftool so I presume it's in a private Canon data area. Just thought I'd check that there's not a switch I'm missing somewhere.
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The QCC wrote:
Just for the record, the AF point is stored in the EXIF data area for Canon EOS cameras.
And over there for Nikon, and over there for Pentax, except that the Pentax bodies also have to change this based on the lens mounted, so the metadata is in at least two places...

DNG Converter no longer converts focusing points from Canon CR2 files

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Up until some time between July 2010 and September 2010, the focusing points embedded in the original Canon CR2 files were also converted and containded in the DNG-file. Hence up until this point in time the focusing points were shown in Apple's Aperture. Since September 2010 this is no longer the case.
I had hoped for the DNG Converter 6.7 Beta to have corrected this truncation of the files.
I am using af Canon EOS 1D Mark III. I am running OS X Lion 10.7.3
1. Has anybody else experienced the same change in behavor of the DNG Converter?
2. Can anybody still see the focus points in Aperture or equal Imaging program?
3. Does anybody have an idea, how to contact Adobe for such a feature request?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Kind regards,
Allan

Hi MadManChan2000,
Thank you for your answer. So what you are saying is that for some reason Apple's Aperture is no longer reading these MarkerNote metadata correctly?
Kind regards,
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Aperture 3 and focus points

I uncovered something with Apple’s Aperture 3 that I can’t find documented anywhere: namely that using the “Show Focus Points” feature changes how it displays the information depending on the focusing mode the camera is in. At least with my Nikon D2H anyway.
Here’s the deal. If I set the camera to either single-area AF or dynamic-area AF, Aperture displays the focus point is a red triangle. If I set the camera to either group dynamic-AF or dynamic area AF with closest subject priority, Aperture displays the focus point as a bold white rectangle.
A minor point, sure, but having the color change for no apparent (or documented!) reason was disorienting.

Hi and welcome to the list.
Is the lack of focus points only happening on the pictures your friend is taking in burst mode? Knowing that would at least narrow down the search for a solution.
I'm not sure if burst mode would effect this, it may also be a camera specific thing. Does your friend have the cannon software? if so you could import into that and see what the results are.
In the mean time I would suggest you do a test. Take a series of shots normally and then take a series in burst mode. See what happens. Report back.
good luck

Canon Focus Point

I see posts dated 2010 asking this question but nothing recent.
Can LR 4 or LR 5 display the focus point used by the camera? It is in the metadata but did Adobe dig it out and create a nice display for it?
If "no" -- has anyone else created a plugin? I see one guy started but his web page seems to have requests but not updates.
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Perry Smith wrote:
Can LR 4 or LR 5 display the focus point used by the camera? It is in the metadata but did Adobe dig it out and create a nice display for it?
No,
Perry Smith wrote:
If "no" -- has anyone else created a plugin?
ExifMeta will decode and display the points as text. Recent version supports custom formatting, but it's still text (you can see example for Nikon's 51-pt auto-focus system, and I'll do a Canon version for you if you send me raw file).
Luc Renambot started a nice plugin for graphical display, but never finished it - maybe he just needs more prodding :
http://luc.lakephoto.org/journal/viewfinder-plugin/
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Problem with showing focus points in 3.5.1 & 10.9

I cannot always display the focus points either by using Option + F or View > Show Focus Points on my MBP, late 2012.
Prior to 3.5.1 & 10.9, either one of these commands would always display or remove, the focus points.
At times I can restore the focus point display by either closing and opening Aperture or by rebooting OS X. Today, nothing restores this function.
Anyone else with this problem or hopefully know of a solution?
Thanks, Bill
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Clem
There is some data in Console.ap, the latest being about 45 minutes ago. With a filter set for APERTURE there are several references to :
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and a 13 inch screen full of generally single items. I do not know how to read / use this info.
After your message, I went to Aperture and used Option + F, View > Show Focus Points and moused over the small icon representing focal points in the upper right hand corner of the inspector with the info tab selected (just under the JPEG icon) several times but that did not generate any new data in Console.ap.
Hope this is what you were refering to.
Bill

Focus points are clustered in the center causing constant "focus & recompose"

It would be helpful is there were some outer focus points, I am constantly focusing and recomposing. Not so much an issue when handheld but a major obstacle when on a tripod.

First point: this is just a forum hosted by Canon, they don't actually read these posts with any intent on gathering user feedback. The forum is mostly supported by Canon users.
As your post: while ‘more’ is always better, there has to be reasonable allowance for advancement of technology. The 1Dx and 5D3 have a significantly larger portion of coverage compared to other Canon models. And even the lower end models are slowly increasing in coverage. While I have no doubt that Canon limits this technology somewhat to encourage higher-end sales, they still are no doubt evolving their AF technology. I would prefer to have more coverage across the horizon of the image to cover moving objects, as is done in the 1Dx and 5D3, than the upper and lower parts where I rarely have my subject. If it was simply an option of having more, then sure add them in, but I’d expect that these AF systems become increasingly more complex, and thus expensive, as they increase the number of sensor points.

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