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Hi,

On 06/30/2015 02:07 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
>>>
>>> I expect he thinks that DT will tell you if it's focused because that is
>>> what the linked article tells us and pressing ctrl-z does indeed zoom
>>> the image and over lays it with a grid of red dashed rectangles, which,
>>> according to the article, indicate infocus areas. I would like to add
>>> that there is no option "indicate focus regions" in gui settings so this
>>> may be the problem.Or perhaps the feature has been removed.
>>
>> Have you had a look at the provided screenshot, linked below? It shows
>> the red rectangles, indicating a good focus, all over the image.
>> The keyboard shortcuts can be looked up or modified in the settings >
>> shortcuts > views > lighttable. There are 4 options:
>> [sticky] preview [with focus detection]
>
> iianm, the red rectangles indicate the areas the camera *uses* to achieve
> focus and except for displaying them as provided by the camera image info,
> have nothing to do with the program editing or indicating anything else.

Do you have a source for that?
Citing the dt blog at
https://www.darktable.org/2013/11/determining-focus-in-lighttable/
> we do a two-scale decimated cdf 2,2 wavelet transform and use a
> threshold on the detail coefficients. the second scale is only computed
> if the first scale (the sharper one) doesn't yield any results.
> visually, these are displayed as red clusters (first scale, very sharp)
> and blue clusters (second scale, not quite as sharp).

Sebastian

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