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    Quote Originally Posted by HDNitehawk View Post
    Used all of your options.
    FoCal will be the quicker method and you will be able to see your mistakes in testing faster.
    I-Pad, unless I missed something, will not work. Maybe get a cart and roll your computer to a location that will work?
    No Mac support? Drag. Didn't think of that.

    Ha. I can just see the neighbors looking out the window like I'm crazy with a camera and 70-200 on a tripod, a target on a light stand 50 feet away, and a big Dell desktop & monitor chugging away in my wheelbarrow on an extension cord.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Stephen View Post
    No Mac support? Drag. Didn't think of that.

    Ha. I can just see the neighbors looking out the window like I'm crazy with a camera and 70-200 on a tripod, a target on a light stand 50 feet away, and a big Dell desktop & monitor chugging away in my wheelbarrow on an extension cord.
    Hey, you have to do what you have to do

    I had straight enough shot in my house to get up to 200mm (32.8'). No farther.

    They show a Mac Beta version on the site. I never could get it to download so I used the Windows version and Boot Camp.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Stephen View Post
    No Mac support? Drag. Didn't think of that.

    Ha. I can just see the neighbors looking out the window like I'm crazy with a camera and 70-200 on a tripod, a target on a light stand 50 feet away, and a big Dell desktop & monitor chugging away in my wheelbarrow on an extension cord.
    To do my 100-400mm at 400mm, I put the target on the house and went down our long drive way with my truck. I used an inverter to plug in my laptop. It was a windy day so I opened up the back door and front door to the truck and set up the tripod between them and rolled down the front window to shot through it. Worked great... however, unlike you I have no neighbors. So I did not have that to worry about what I looked like shotting pictures at my house with a long lens. It is nice to live out in the middle of nowhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scott Stephen View Post
    No Mac support? Drag.
    The MAC version does work although they say it is a beta version. You can find it on the license management page at FoCal I think.

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