With the introduction of Update Channels, you can now choose to get notifications about pre-release software versions. If you want to take a look now, the index page is here. We want it to be driven by you, so it gives the clearest and best information and helps you get the very best from FoCal. The online help system is continuously evolving - if you find it helpful or can think of improvements to areas then let us know.

Within the tests, use the Chart Help link to dig into the details about the information you’re seeing. Hit the “?” key from lots of places in FoCal to get information about what you’re looking at. So we’ve brought the information to where it’s needed, with context sensitive online help. Nikon’s exciting new mirrorless cameras - the Z6 and Z7 - have been supported in the beta builds of FoCal 2.9 for a while, but we now bring them to everyone with this general availability release of FoCal 2.9! Online Context-Sensitive HelpįoCal is a complex product, and up until this version it camera with a complex manual - 150 pages of details! We realised this can be a bit intimidating… and so it isn’t usually read, leading to lots of questions. Support for the Nikon Z6/Z7 Mirrorless Cameras Not only will the app run faster and be more compact on macOS, but the code is far more common between Windows and Mac, leading to improved reliability as we pick up more issues during release testing.

Over the past few versions, macOS has been periodically letting you know.įrom our point of view, this necessitated the change to a new, far more modern software framework for FoCal which brings a whole host of benefits. One of the primary drivers for the rework in FoCal 2.9 was Apple’s requirement that all macOS apps should be 64-bit. Improvements to both Canon and Nikon control mean that going forward we’ll be bringing some exciting new features! 64 bit macOS This means faster, more reliable communications with more flexibility of what we can do with the cameras. With FoCal 2.6.5 on Mac we completely changed the communication with Canon cameras, and now we bring this change to Windows too. One area that has received a lot of attention is how the 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 panelĭuring the development of FoCal 2.9, we have reworked almost every aspect of the software. For more information you can also see the release blog post. General “headline” features since the last release are shown below, with more details available in the changelog. Welcome to FoCal 2.9! This is the General Availability release of FoCal 2.9 for all users, and represents the culmination of over 18 months of development work bringing improvements to every aspect of Reikan FoCal.

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