Following on from the “which lenses are most popular” post, this post is about which are the most popular Nikon cameras among FoCal users from May 2012 through to October 2014. The Data Since 2012, users of FoCal have had the opportunity to upload their results data back to our servers. We’re really excited about being able to …
Since about mid 2012, users of Reikan FoCal have had the chance to upload results data, and it’s allowed us to build a pretty good picture of the behaviour of a lot of lenses and camera body combinations. When FoCal 2 is released, we’ll be giving this data back to the FoCal users, and in …
This page gives the month-by-month top 10 lists of lenses on Nikon cameras as shown by the user data uploads from Reikan FoCal users. Each month shows the top 10 lenses. The Month Percentage column shows the percentage made up by this lens (of the total Nikon lenses used during this month). The Percentage Change column shows the difference from the …
When FoCal was first launched, it supported the Canon EOS 5D Mark II and 7D and could run a complete calibration with absolutely no user interaction. We added further Canon cameras, and then when we added support for Nikon cameras we hit a stumbling block which meant that the software couldn’t control one particular setting. With …
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 …
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’re pleased to announce the release of a new FoCal for Mac 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 Mac: Addition of the …
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 …
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) …
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 …