Focus Mask not Displaying

Amy Marshall

• December 20, 2022 16:20

I'm new to Capture one. I just imported my first set of photos and I have the focus mask toggled on and none of my images show any green highlights. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I've checked the Focus Mask preferences and all of the images that I've imported and no light green highlight is found. I am an inexperienced photographer but I have a hard time believing that there's not a focus point on any of my images.

What can I do or check to get this working?

Thank you!

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  Ian Wilson

  Moderator

  • December 20, 2022 20:41

  

  Are you working with raw files? I believe it only works with raws.

  Ian

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  HGL

  • December 21, 2022 00:08

  The focus mask is only displayed for RAW images. Focus mask is not displayed for JPG images

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  Propheticus

  • December 21, 2022 13:41

  In my experience the focus mask is pretty hit and miss. The functionality seems to work on the basis of detecting contrasting edges (which makes sense when you no longer can apply phase detection). This means out of focus but contrasting/fine detail subjects like grass, leaves, hair or rocks show up as 'sharp' and sharp but evenly coloured surfaces without micro contrast do not. The issue becomes really obvious when you have both in the same focal plane and one turns green while the other does not.

  In edit > preferences > Focus  you can lower the threshold  which helps a bit. The bar is a bit high by default... or my (travel) zoom is simply not up to C1's high standards :)

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