FoCal and Canon 6D support – update We’ve been getting reports that some (not all) Canon EOS 6D cameras can give erratic results using FoCal. The symptoms manifest as FoCal reporting that it needs to take more shots because of inconsistent results and the resultant graph has shots that are as sharp across all AFMA …
The first (and hopefully last!) Release Candidate of FoCal 1.8 is now available, but this version is only available for FoCal Pro users at present. It brings lots of exciting new features which should be available to everyone by the end of February. Updates and Fixes With the last major issues with the Mac version …
We’re pleased to announce the first beta release of FoCal 1.8 for both Windows and Mac, which brings a completely new way of communicating with Nikon cameras on Mac computers, a huge improvement to the licensing system and several general use bug fixes. Updates and Fixes The following is a list of the additions and …
We’ve just launched the first version of our Camera/Lens Information tool which takes our database of uploaded FoCal results and lets you easily visualise the combined results of various FoCal tests from thousands of FoCal users! You can find the tool on the front page of the website in the new Online Tools menu option, …
We’re pleased to announce the release of FoCal for Windows 1.7 – this is a General Availability release (no longer a beta) so represents a stable upgrade from FoCal 1.6. There are so many changes from FoCal 1.6 it’s difficult to know where to start! This post presents a few key highlights just below, and …
We’re pleased to announce the release of a new FoCal for Mac build. The headline feature of this build is support for the Canon 6D, but there are several other improvements too. Updates and Fixes The following is a list of the additions and fixes in this version of FoCal for Mac: Canon 6D support …
The last post about our HyperDoF refocusable image builder was our first about some of the research and development projects we do here at Reikan, but I wanted to tell you about another idea that we’ve been playing around with in the background – FoCal over WiFi! The Raspberry Pi If you don’t know about …
At Reikan, we like to tinker around with research and development projects in order to break new ground in the areas of camera control and image processing. HyperDoF is the result of some research we did back in February 2012 based on FoCal, and is a utility which allows you to create images you can …
Reikan FoCal software has the ability to run AF Consistency tests, and during the development of some new features in FoCal I noticed something about contrast detect autofocus that didn’t quite go with my expectations, so I’ve run a few tests and captured some quite interesting data. This all stems from my belief that contrast-detect …
We’re pleased to announce the release of a new Reikan FoCal for Windows build. The headline feature of this build is the new QuickCal test, but there are lots of other improvements too. Updates and Fixes The following is a list of the additions and fixes in this version of FoCal for Windows: Addition of …