Larate Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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PCKit wrote:
Karl, I gave up on Focal too. I bought it a couple of years ago and had nothing but trouble using it in the way of buggy software, if I remember correctly, and the same complaint on support. It took days to get a response. I keep thinking I should try to upgrade to a newer version if they have one and give it another try. From your post, maybe not.
I already said it and I will go on until my last breath : Focal is a piece of crap from software engineering point of view (bad practices, most of the effort put in the crappy protection), a gyp from buyer point of view (no trial version, reuse of free/gratis third party libs in an expensive software).
Moreover it is completely useless for the end-user, because either your lense has a constant focus shift (whatever the focal length, the subject distance and the repeatability) but that would be easily solved with dotTune. Or your lense has a "random" focus shift (most of the time depending on the subject distance) and thus you have to check it in the field and recheck it when the context has changed significantly. And Focal requires you to take a laptop with you (with enough battery!). Again, dotTune is more efficient.
Yep, definitely one of the worst software I'd bought!
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