We’re really excited to announce the first public alpha release of the next version of our automatic camera/lens focus calibration and analysis package – FoCal 2020! FoCal 2020 is the start of a new naming convention for FoCal releases. We wanted a way to make it clear this is very different to the existing FoCal …
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 …
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 …
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 …
We’re delighted to announce the release of Reikan FoCal 1.9.5 for Windows and Mac, bringing Nikon Df support, brand new RGB Analysis, and lots of bug fixes and improvements! Fixes and Improvements The following is a list of the major improvements across nearly 200 internal revisions of the FoCal software since the release of FoCal …
Reikan FoCal 1.9.5 introduces a brand new analysis method called RGB Analysis. This post is intended to give an overview of the benefits of this new analysis method – it’s quite technical so if you like getting into the details then read on! History of FoCal’s Analysis To start with, I’ll give a little …