As Reikan approaches 10 years since the very first FoCal release, we’re excited to announce the development of a new product which brings wireless control to all FoCal supported cameras.
A few days ago, Nikon issued a service advisory for a fault with the VR (Vibration Reduction) system built into the Z6 and Z7 cameras, and it got me thinking about how you would test the performance of the VR system (or really the image stabilisation system in any camera or lens, not just Nikon’s …
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ll be aware of the release of Nikon’s first full-frame mirrorless cameras – the Nikon Z6 and Nikon Z7. Our Nikon Z7 arrived at FoCal HQ last Thursday in the form of the “24-70 + FTZ Kit”. The documentation isn’t available from Nikon yet to control the camera …
With the release of the D5 and D500, Nikon have introduced an “automatic AF Fine Tune” feature into their range of dSLR cameras. We’ve spent a couple of days with our D500 in the Reikan lab running tests to get an idea of how Nikon’s new feature performs. *The D5 and D500 are not yet …
FoCal 2 is coming! It’s been a bit delayed because of some resourcing issues, but we’ve resolved that now and we’re full steam ahead on the FoCal 2 project. One of the new tests that we’ll be bringing in FoCal 2 is the Focus Shift test, and this post gives some idea of what it …
Focus Shift is a phenomenon which affects certain lenses and causes the point of focus to shift with a change in aperture. This post takes a look at why that matters, and some results from development testing of Reikan FoCal which allows the effect of focus shift to be quantified. Why does Focus Shift matter? …
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 …