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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 604328" data-attributes="member: 13090">Most likely I'm an outlier when it comes to using FoCal but my experience was not good. I really, REALLY wanted FoCal to work because I'm a *big* believer in fine-tuning the auto-focus on my lenses. I started working with FoCal at home but I kept getting horrible results and wild variations in suggested auto-focus adjustments. All of my lenses had been manually adjusted prior to using FoCal so went in having some idea of what was needed. My biggest issue was that FoCal would not give consistent results. After getting fed up with such piss-poor results I packed up my laptop and camera kit and hauled everything to the college campus where I work and have arguably ideal conditions to do this sort of testing: huge interior spaces with concrete floors, lots and lots of natural light, no shortage of 500-watt daylight-balanced lamps (should additional light be required) and a proven-reliable tripod.After spending the better part of a precious weekend trying to make FoCal work as it should, I threw in the towel. When, and IF, the software would fully cooperate, which was about half the time, the resultant reports still gave values that were all over the map and clearly out of whack. After numerous emails with pics of the studio setup where I was testing and attaching FoCal-generated reports to the FoCal people, even they had to admit something was clearly not right. They never did figure out what the problem was, but after numerous attempts at troubleshooting they (grudgingly) refunded me the purchase price.All that being said, I still encourage fine-tuning the auto-focus on your lenses, big time; I just wish FoCal had worked out for me....</blockquote>

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