It think Reikan had some if the best customer service and they update and work in new features almost every week. So what if it's semi automatic, are you incapable of touching a button without moving the camera three inches forward? The software needs 10 ev to work optimally and I found that the flickering lights if fluorescent makes the results front focus. Bulbs I haven't tried, I used daylight and it works absolutely flawless.

I have spent so many hours tryi g to afma my lenses with other remedies and found it to be pretty much useless for consistency. All my lenses and two cameras done in an hour or so and never worry about it again makes completely worth it. It is to my broad experience with this, THE tool to use. FoCal will not solve AFMA issues if you have a bad lens or camera.

It has various levels of accuracy, those who want the best accuracy need to set it to take 10 shots or so at each AFMA setting. Some use a quick and dirty setting of 2 or 3 shots, and lens variations from shot to shot may not give the best setting.

A big potential improvement is now in beta testing, it does not close the shutter for each shot, and sounds like a major improvement. I posted a article about it, but no one has responded.

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Also note that Focal 2 is in the pipeline, and may be out in several months. A upgrade fee will almost certainly be levied, so buy it now and get some use out of it before the price goes up. There is no solution for fully automatic AFMA for the 5D MK III or 1D X, and Canon is not upgrading the SDK. This is one of those things where a lot of users making their wishes known to Canon would help. Mt Spokane, thanks for the link, actually I have read your input in FoCal threads before, aren't you a Beta tester or something?

Anyway it was the Mac compatibility issues that stopped me buying it last time I looked, if I do get it I suspect I'll wait until v2. Also, do you know if they do a club license type arrangement? I am pretty active in a club and have talked about the club getting a license and then having a calibration day, but that wouldn't work with the current body serial number based setup.

'So what if it's semi automatic, are you incapable of touching a button without moving the camera three inches forward?' No, are you incapable of answering a simple question without belittling people? I mentioned a specific point because, when I have looked on their site, although it says my cameras are not fully automatic, I don't know, and they didn't clearly lay out (though they might now) what, exactly, that means.

It would be nice if a user could actually take the time to explain that rather than belittle me. My own personal experience with AFMA on my bodies and my lenses in actual real world shooting, well it hasn't made a blind bit of difference. I have taken the time to push the buttons, all of them, myself, to get the optimum settings manually using Northern Lights interference pattern technique, but if I then switch off AFMA I see no difference in actual output. Maybe I am lucky, I'd happily try FoCal, but my impressions for my gear so far have been I don't need to.

Mt Spokane, thanks for the link, actually I have read your input in FoCal threads before, aren't you a Beta tester or something? Anyway it was the Mac compatibility issues that stopped me buying it last time I looked, if I do get it I suspect I'll wait until v2.

Also, do you know if they do a club license type arrangement? I am pretty active in a club and have talked about the club getting a license and then having a calibration day, but that wouldn't work with the current body serial number based setup. Take focal with a grain of salt. I have two bodies a mark ii and mark iii 5d. I went through all of my lenses and noticed a pattern of 2 afma between the bodies. So i expected that difference between all the lenses. It worked on the 70-200 ii, the 85mm ii, the 24mm ii.

It did not work well on the 50mm L or the 16-35 mm ii. For those lenses i used a moire pattern chart with zooming in. That technique worked and produced again the expected 2 afma difference between the bodies. I spent a lot of time and care on the focal setups but for some lenses it did not work properly. Seeing as how Canon requires any USB communication to run through their SDK, your opinion of 'screw you, we don't give a crap' seems rather obtuse. If the SDK (from Canon) doesn't support certain functionality, and there is no other method of communication with the camera, how is this Reikan's fault?

I thought it would be a great idea to write an iOS app which would allow you to tether your phone (via connector port USB) to your Canon SLR (who really wants to lug a laptop with them for tethered shooting in the field?). That is, until I realized Canon doesn't offer an iOS SDK, and trying to reverse engineer their API would be a nightmare. So yeah, I can't blame Reikan at all for not being able to support functions that aren't included in Canon's SDK. 'So what if it's semi automatic, are you incapable of touching a button without moving the camera three inches forward?' No, are you incapable of answering a simple question without belittling people? I mentioned a specific point because, when I have looked on their site, although it says my cameras are not fully automatic, I don't know, and they didn't clearly lay out (though they might now) what, exactly, that means. It would be nice if a user could actually take the time to explain that rather than belittle me.

My own personal experience with AFMA on my bodies and my lenses in actual real world shooting, well it hasn't made a blind bit of difference. I have taken the time to push the buttons, all of them, myself, to get the optimum settings manually using Northern Lights interference pattern technique, but if I then switch off AFMA I see no difference in actual output. Maybe I am lucky, I'd happily try FoCal, but my impressions for my gear so far have been I don't need to. Mt Spokane, thanks for the link, actually I have read your input in FoCal threads before, aren't you a Beta tester or something? Anyway it was the Mac compatibility issues that stopped me buying it last time I looked, if I do get it I suspect I'll wait until v2.

Also, do you know if they do a club license type arrangement? I am pretty active in a club and have talked about the club getting a license and then having a calibration day, but that wouldn't work with the current body serial number based setup. I like FoCal very much. It has helped me with various cameras and lenses. Yesterday I made some pics with my 50/1.4 on a 6D body (before adjustment) and they were not sharp. Today I ran that body and lens through FoCal and discovered that the lens needed a +17 adjustment.

What a difference! It's like having a new lens.

However, FoCal is still in development and seems a bit unstable. I've had it shut down unexpectedly a number of times. Also, it is supposed to support the 6D but I could not get it to work in the fully automatic mode without forcing the Manual Settings Change (MSC). Before I set it to MSC, FoCal would run through the whole test automatically, but it seems it wasn't actually adjusting the AFMA setting. The analysis graph showed pretty much the same results from -20 to +20, which made no sense at all. After setting it to MSC, I ran through the automatic test but with manual AFMA adjustments and the graph showed the proper curve with a peak around +17.

It took some effort, but now I have a good result and it really makes a difference in the pics. That said, I do wish that Canon would update the old design of the 50/1.4 to one that is more precise & consistent in focusing. The older designs seem to be the least consistent.