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 2.x stream of releases and FoCal 2020 fits the bill!

This release brings a brand new look, easier operation, more help, new tools and much more.

A brief history of FoCal

FoCal began life in a back room sometime in 2008, with the first official public release toward the end of 2011. Initially supporting just the Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 7D on Windows, FoCal quickly grew to support lots more Canon cameras, Nikon camera support was added along with FoCal on Mac and additional tests like Aperture Sharpness and Autofocus Consistency.

The macOS Mojave was the fifteenth release from Apple for their macOS family and was made available to the public on the 24th of September in 2018. The macOS Mojave 10.14.1 (the updated version) was released on the 30th of October of the same year with a couple of new updates. While your AkaiPro hardware and software are ready for macOS Mojave, that doesn't mean everybody is. If you use one of our products with a third-party software title like Ableton or Cubase, be sure to check with the developer to confirm support for the new OS before updating. MacOS Mojave Class-Compliant Supported Hardware. On March 31, 2011, X-Rite is holding a free online seminar: “Beyond Monitor Calibration — Get Prints That Match Your Display!” While they say it’s aimed at photographers, the principles should still apply to other creative professionals concerned about outputting colors that match their display. Hardware Colorimeters vs Software Calibration. Now let’s get one thing straight – as a photographer, you do not want to even try to self-calibrate a monitor without proper hardware and software. Your eyes and your brain’s perception of colors is pretty horrible, so trying to use software tools to calibrate a monitor will potentially make.

A complete rework of the user interface and core code followed to bring FoCal 2.0, and then came the FoCal Comparison Database – a feature that allows performance comparison between your camera and lens with other real-world FoCal users of the same equipment to find out how it really performs.

We jumped from FoCal 2.6 to FoCal 2.9 a while ago after a massive rework of the internals, moving our development tools along by a decade and providing support for 64-bit macOS FoCal. https://newplace487.weebly.com/blog/download-game-pro-evolution-soccer-2015.

Which brings us to today, FoCal 2020 is nearing completion! We wanted to share it with you to get feedback, hear about what you love and areas that can be tweaked.

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FoCal 2020 Alpha 1

This is an Alpha release, which means it’s not yet finished. The look may change a bit, some features are missing, yet to be completed, and while we have shared with a small test group it’s not had extensive testing outside of Reikan (the release notes contain a bit more information).

There has been a LOT of testing, based on in-house testing so far this is the most reliable and consistent version of FoCal to date. The software is quite different from before, so we wanted to release the first version as an Alpha, indicating that it’s a pretty early release.

We would LOVE you to download this release, have a play and give us feedback. Any feedback – good or bad – will help us tune the software and get it ready for final release.

What’s New?

It would be easier to ask what isn’t new!

[If you’re not interested in the details and just want to grab the release details are here]

Brand New Look

FoCal has a brand new look, consistent across Windows and Mac (and, er… more platforms soon…). We think this new user interface is more intuitive, easier to use, more consistent, cleaner and gets you to the information you need faster.

The Camera and File mode tests have been separated out, reviewing historical information is easier and more useful, navigation around the user interface should be pretty simple and you can even review old tests at the same time a new test is running.

Oh, and you can resize the window too… something that’s been missing from FoCal for almost 10 years (sorry about that!).

This post is intended as a fairly quick overview of FoCal 2020, so I won’t go into too much detail about all the user interface features. We’re working on all the online help for this release at the moment and that’s linked within the software, if you get stuck you should be able to find help quickly.

Improved Interface

The screenshot above shows the Camera Status page. There’s several key differences in behaviour from FoCal 2.x:

Camera serial number and license state is recognised before opening (the green tick in the Available Cameras panel above shows this camera is licensed)
New cameras are automatically licensed as required.
There’s an indication if any settings need to be restored to the camera (that’s the little orange marker in the Available Cameras panel)

When you open a camera, you can review loads of information, with highlights if there’s things to note (e.g. below the camera clock is out by 59 minutes), if there’s new camera firmware available etc.

Underneath the camera/lens information are the available tests (can you spot a couple of new ones?):

If the tests aren’t available for any reason (e.g. the camera doesn’t support the right features), you’ll get a decent explanation.

And each test has a Learn More… page which gives you an overview of what the test does and help on how to use it:

Calibration Check

One of the new tools we’ve introduced in FoCal 2020 is Calibration Check.

You’ve probably already guessed, it checks how well your camera and lens are focusing together, giving you an idea of whether you need to run a complete focus calibration.

Two key things to note:

There’s NO user interaction in this test, even with User Assisted Mode cameras. Just hit the button and a short time later you’ll know whether you need to calibrate.
This test will work with cameras that don’t even support any form of focus adjustment (coming to FoCal soon in a future release)

Here’s the new Calibration Check tool: Dmg dnd.

As for most tests, you just need to put your camera on a sturdy tripod in a well lit room, run Target Setup to confirm everything is in the set up correctly and hit Start.

Tests in FoCal 2020

This screenshot has introduced a few more features of the FoCal 2020 interface. A few things to highlight:

The mode (Camera, File or History) is shown at the top, along with details of the connected camera if there is one. Hitting the camera icon on the top right will jump to you the Camera Status page.
The bottom bar is shown in test pages and lets you know what state the test is in (Idle, Running with progress indications etc).
There’s a set of buttons on the bottom right – these are for adjusting test settings, saving reports, jumping to Target Setup and starting/stopping the test.
The view of crops has changed – they’re now shown with a slider to transition between the crops.
The cards can be hidden (with the up arrow on the title bar), or made to take up the full window (with the square icon) – particularly useful to have a detailed, zoomed look at the crops.

The Summary tab (shown above) is designed to show you useful information without being overwhelming.

The above screen shows that the lens is in need of focus calibration:

the marker in the Calibration State card is right against the left end of the gauge,
the text indicates that the lens needs calibrating,
the chart shows the results are right down in the red area,
and the crops show that the contrast detect one is much clearer than the phase detect one.

Here’s the lens after focus calibration:

The Summary tab is designed to show you everything you need to know for the test to be useful – in this case, whether you need to calibrate your lens or not. Virtual dj skins for mac. But as ea