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FoCal “QuickCal” Test Preview
There’s a new tool coming to FoCal! It’s called the QuickCal Test, and it speeds up calibration for all cameras, especially with cameras that you have to manually change the AF Microadjustment/Fine Tune values (those that run in MSC mode). What’s different? The QuickCal test has been made possible due to the accuracy of the …
EF 24-70 vs EF 24-70 II FoCal Results Comparison
For quite a few months now, FoCal has had a Data Upload feature which has meant that people who use FoCal can optionally upload their data back to us at Reikan so we can analyse the results. The plan has been to use this data to both improve the analysis and guidance in FoCal, and also …
New FoCal for Windows release with lots of improvements
We released a new Mac version of FoCal on Monday after some intensive testing, and this week have seen the same testing on the Windows version. As we use the same underlying test control and analysis code, all the internal improvements in the Mac version are now available for Windows and we updated all the …
FoCal for Mac – a new release is available!
After the best part of 3 weeks we’ve got the next release of FoCal for Mac available for you! This is the result of a huge amount of work, quite a lot “behind the scenes” in improving the test operation, the image handling on OS X, memory management improvement and general reliability work. But we’ve …
FoCal for Mac – Latest Update Preview
This started as a quick post to explain how things are coming on with the latest FoCal release (which is very, very nearly ready!), but it turns out there are loads of improvements and additions and the post has got a bit long! We had planned to get the new release out yesterday (Friday), but …
FoCal 1.7 Beta 5 – Much improved Nikon support, D600 added and lots more!
We’re pleased to announce the release of FoCal 1.7.0.224 Beta (note 1.7.0.234 is functionally identical) which should bring reliable Nikon operation on OS X and adds support for the D600 as well as lots of other fixes and improvements. What’s new in this version? The following is the overview list of fixes since 1.7.0.220 (Windows) …
FoCal 1.7 Beta 4 – Snow Leopard, Nikon on OSX and more!
What a week or two! As explained here, we decided to start work on the Nikon support for FoCal Mac early as the general operation of the software on OS X was working nicely. It actually went considerably quicker than we expected until it came to ironing out a little issue we noticed with connecting …
FoCal Nikon support update
This is a brief post about how things are coming along with adding Nikon support to Mac version Reikan FoCal AF Calibration Software. Our original intention was to fully release the OSX version of FoCal with only Canon support, then once released we would work on the Nikon support. But as the beta feedback from …
Reikan FoCal for Mac – New release for OS X 10.7.5/10.8 support
A new version of Reikan FoCal for Mac has just been released which includes a workaround to get most Canon cameras working on OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) and OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). The purpose of this release is entirely to include a method of getting FoCal working on OS X 10.7.5 and OS X …