Wild Alaska's How to find focal distance in Lightroom

[Redbeard the Cameraguy]

Hello Everyone,

Happy Holiday's. I recently watch a youtube by Scott West "Wild Alaska" where he was talking about Lightroom's library module being able to read the focal distance to your subject.
This seems interesting enough to dig into. I customized Lightroom as he talked about and for my older Canon files sure enough all that info is right there. However now shooting the Nikon Z8 the focus distance section in the EXIF data is blank. He addresses this in the comment section saying to turn on EXIF focal distance on a Z9, navigate to the camera menu then go to Photo Shooting Menu and check to see if Extended Menu Banks is turned on. This was on in my case on the Z8 and that Focus distance is still not showing up. Does anyone have a solve for this?

Here is a link to that video if anyone is interested.

 

[Hooligans Imagery]

Curious what you will do with that information when it's not in the field and you are back at home. Maybe form some perspective on how far is too far, but then how do you use in the field. Just curious on what to do with this information.

 

[JAJohnson]

I saw Scott West’s video a couple of days ago. I checked some of my images and the only ones with focus distance are those I processed through DxO Pure Raw. I have no idea how Pure Raw establishes the focus distance and whether it’s even correct.

Since focus distance isn’t in the Nikon RAW metadata (I’ve always had extended menu banks enabled), I’ve decided it’s not important and not to be concerned about it.