We’re delighted to announce the release of Reikan FoCal 1.9 for Windows and Mac, bringing with it a whole host of improvements! What does FoCal 1.9 bring? The main focus of FoCal 1.9 has been to address reliability and stability issues with the software. As FoCal has grown from version 1.0, a lot of functionality …
Quantifying Lens Focus Shift with Reikan FoCal
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? …
Second FoCal 1.9 Beta Available for Windows and Mac
We’re pleased to announce the second beta release of FoCal 1.9 for both Windows and Mac. The headline feature of this release is support for the Nikon D7100, but it also brings several fixes over the first beta. Updates and Fixes This version incorporates all the fixes in the first beta detailed on this page, …
FoCal 1.9 Beta Available for Windows and Mac
We’re pleased to announce the first beta release of FoCal 1.9 for both Windows and Mac. Updates and Fixes It’s been a long time coming because it’s been a huge amount of work, but we got there in the end! The focus of FoCal 1.9 has been on stability, reliability and consistency across both Windows …
Nikon Firmware Bug ( doesn’t affect ANY automatic FoCal Testing)
During the development of FoCal 1.9, we’ve found a bug in the firmware of all Nikon cameras we’ve tested with which will affect the procedure used for running the FoCal Manual Mode test and other situations where the AF Fine Tune value in the image metadata is of importance. **PLEASE NOTE THIS DOES NOT AFFECT …
Calibrating at Both Ends of a Zoom Lens
This is just a quick post to show early development of a new feature in FoCal – the ability to test at both ends of a zoom lens and have the results interpreted for the best single result (or best dual results for cameras capable of accepting these): FoCal 1.9 is mainly focused on stability …
Looking Back: A Brief History of FoCal
FoCal 1.0 was launched on 2nd January 2012, and since then there has been 8 major updates (free of charge), bringing the automated support from 2 to 20 cameras (and growing!), further operating system support and new tests and improvements to the overall software. We wanted to show how things have progressed over the last …
FoCal 1.8.1 Released for Windows and Mac
We’re pleased to announce the release of FoCal 1.8.1 for both Windows and Mac computers. This is an interim bug-fix release with the following updates: Updates and Fixes This new version brings the following updates: Fixed issue which stopped FoCal being able to work with the Canon EOS-1D Mark III Fix to stop occasional crash …
FoCal 1.8 Released for Windows and Mac
We’re proud to announce the release of FoCal 1.8 for both Windows and Mac computers. This is the first non-beta release for Mac users, and the upgrade from FoCal 1.7 for Windows users. Updates and Fixes This new version brings the following updates: Extra tests available in FoCal Standard RAW analysis – RAW sensor data …
FoCal for Mac – Installation Information
FoCal for Mac is now available and if you ‘re a new user (i.e. haven’t been trying the beta versions) we wanted to make sure that you understand the installation procedure as there are a couple of important steps that need to be done for this first Mac version (in future versions there will be …