One area that has received a lot of attention is how cameras are controlled. When you connect to a camera, FoCal now obtains much more information about the camera and shows this to you in the Camera/Lens Info panel Camera control improvementsĭuring the development of FoCal 2.9, we have reworked almost every aspect of the software. Things are now far more consistent between platforms, making development easier with even less room for errors or bugs to creep in. The old framework was becoming fragile and development was held up with internal differences between Windows and Mac code.
One of the key drivers for this new step is providing a native 64-bit architecture release of FoCal on macOS, the older framework just wouldn’t have allowed it (more on this below!). This change will allow future development to be quicker, easier, more flexible and more exciting, with new features and improvements added far more easily.
The new framework is designed with portability and flexibility in mind and we’ve taken this opportunity to update a huge amount of the internal workings of FoCal.
We’ve moved to a shiny new software development framework that offers much better long term support.
This means you will have access to use FoCal 2.9 if you purchased FoCal or an Included Updates Period extension on or after 1st October 2017. We felt it was more fair to users if we back-date this release all the way back to 1st October 2018.
It’s taken longer than we hoped to get this release fully ready and we’ve gone ahead and “back-dated” the license requirement. If you’re interested in the details of the pre-release versions, the release posts are all on the blog from here to here. Since the first public release in late 2011, we’ve added support for over 40 cameras and helped calibrate millions of cameras and lenses!įoCal 2.9 is the latest and greatest release of what is still the only automatic autofocus calibration solution for DSLRs. Your feedback and comments and testing have hugely helped improve FoCal 2.9 and made sure we have something users will enjoy! Some HistoryįoCal came into existence 10 years ago, way back in 2009. Huge thank you to all users who have tried out the alpha and beta releases of FoCal 2.9 over the past few months. The culmination of over a year of development, bringing improvements to every aspect of Reikan FoCal. For tests run on older versions of FoCal, you will see only the chart/numeric information and not the captured images.Welcome to FoCal 2.9! This is the full, production ready and public release of FoCal 2.9. From FoCal 2.9, crops of tests run are saved locally on your computer so for these tests you will be able to fully review the information. Test DetailsĮither double click on an entry in the list, or choose one and click Show Details to review the test results. Any tests that can be displayed are shown in the big list view in the window – this will include the time the test was run, the version of FoCal used and some extra information about the test (this will depend on the test that was run). This will show the window below:įrom here, you can use the drop-down lists to choose the camera, lens and test that you want to see results for. To see the history on your computer, you can select the History button from the Tools tab of the main FoCal window. This applies to tests run with all versions of FoCal, so from the first time you ran FoCal you should find you have a populated history already on your computer. With FoCal Pro, you have the ability to review the results of previous tests run on your computer.