IMO, the software needs to be rewritten to accept and analyze typical field files. I pretty much never shoot like that in the field, yet I get very sharp usable images. For a camera as detailed as a D800 and an $8000 lens, the program should not be having the slightest amount of difficulty getting reliable sharp detailed files.

In other words, you have done everything humanly possible to ensure razor sharp detailed images, yet they are not good enough for the program. you have VR turned off, the lens is locked down on a solid tripod, and you are using ISO 100 with reasonable shutter speeds.

By the end of it all, and after running it many dozens of times now, I have no faith whatsoever in the final results. I also always get messages that say the results have not been reliable and it needs to take a bunch more test images.

It will start out with it being 'EXCELLENT' but by the end of running it, it ends up 'POOR'. I don't get 'crashes' per say on my Win 7 PC, but I cannot get consistent results at all with this software (and after hundreds of times, yes I am doing it right!) It seems to me that FoCal have designed the software to be too picky about sharpness and it just keeps saying the Result Confidence is 'POOR'.

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