FoCal 2.4 is here! Lots of work with Canon’s 5D Mark IV camera, Dual Pixel Raw functionality is now part of FoCal. In addition, we’ve totally re-designed and re-written target setup, it’s much easier and faster to use and guides the user through the process. We’ve been busy working on Sierra support, it’s not a …
With the introduction of the EOS 5D Mark IV, Canon opened up some new possibilities for image processing with the introduction of Dual Pixel Raw files. Following on from our previous post on the subject, we’ve been investigating how these files can help with autofocus calibration and general camera analysis. The answer is… quite a …
FoCal 2.3 is ready! Canon’s newest dSLR camera is now fully supported within FoCal. In addition we’ve improved some key areas within FoCal, liveview will start faster on Canon cameras, we’ve been able to reinstate shutter count information for some of the older Canon cameras and laid the framework for upcoming support of FoCal on …
Canon’s new 5D Mark IV has been announced and includes a feature that’s got our attention. The Dual Pixel Raw format allows for new types of post capture analysis, it’s early days but so far looks very interesting! Dual Pixel Raw Apart from the usual incremental improvements on the 5D line of cameras, Canon have …
FoCal 2.2 is here! Following hotly after last months 2.1 Nikon release it’s the turn of Canon. Full support for the two new Canon EOS-1D X Mark II and EOS 80D cameras. Really useful FoCal Comparison Data has been added to key FoCal graphs and improvements to speed and reliability in some key areas.
This release adds full support for Nikon D5 and Nikon D500 cameras on all platforms and adds the ability to calibrate using pre-captured files from Canon 1DX Mark II and Canon 80D (full support for these two new Canon cameras coming soon!). A lot of changes, many internal as well as the introduction of FoCal …
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 …
We’re delighted to announce the release of Reikan FoCal 2.0 Maintenance Release 2 (MR2) for Mac. This release improves Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) support, specifically for Nikon D800, D810 and D7100 cameras. This release builds upon earlier 2.0 releases, dedicated blog entries below: Reikan FoCal 2.0 Final Released! Reikan FoCal 2.0 Mac MR1.5 …
Very exciting news, especially for our US based FoCal users, it’s now possible to buy Reikan FoCal products direct in the USA! New US Based Stockist We have a new stockist, perhaps one of the largest and most well known photography stores in the US, B&H Photo. If you’re already a FoCal user and prefer …
If you are a Canon user and also running Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) you might have seen the infamous “Opening camera returned error 97” issue. This was a bug we introduced in to last weeks MR1 / El Capitan release as part of adding Nikon support, sorry!