Solve Hard-to-Diagnose Temperature Related Problems

With the Temperature Plugin, you can:

1. Check and Test Key Sensors; on the Shutter, CMOS, Main PCB, and TFT Display and Top Cover.
2. Eliminate guesswork when diagnosing temperature sensor issues.
3. Quickly identify the source of temperature-related problems.
4. Save time and minimize frustration during repairs.

Here are a few temperature-related issues

• Soft focus on hot days – Caused by changes in Lens Flange/CMOS distance.
• Random overexposure or underexposure – Due to fluctuations in AE current.
• Dark images at high shutter speeds – Resulting from Shutter temperature changes.
• Flash malfunctions – Triggered by temperature shifts in the EF unit.

Solve Hard-to-Diagnose Temperature Related Problems

With the Temperature Plugin, you can:

1. Check and Test Key Sensors; on the EF Unit, CMOS Unit, and TFT Display.
2. Eliminate guesswork when diagnosing temperature sensor issues.
3. Quickly identify the source of temperature-related problems.
4. Save time and minimize frustration during repairs.

Here are a few temperature-related issues

• Soft focus on hot days – Caused by changes in Lens Flange/CMOS distance.
• Random overexposure or underexposure – Due to fluctuations in AE current.
• Dark images at high shutter speeds – Resulting from Shutter temperature changes.
• Flash malfunctions – Triggered by temperature shifts in the EF unit.

Before and After Service Reports for your Customers

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The Advanced Camera FAX includes the data from Essential and Professional plugins.

Professional Reporting & Revenue Growth

• Create New Income: Offer the Camera FAX as a fast, standalone diagnostic service to generate extra revenue.

• Build Customer Trust: Provide professional "Before and After" reports to prove your work and justify your repair costs.

• Verify Market Origin: Instantly identify "Grey Market" imports to avoid warranty issues and illegal Wi-Fi frequencies.

• Faster Estimates: Quickly access shutter counts and internal error logs for more accurate and profitable repair quotes.

Before and After Service Reports for your Customers

Promote your business with your custom Headers and Footers

The Advanced Camera FAX includes the data from Essential, Professional and Advanced plugins.

Professional Reporting & Revenue Growth

• Create New Income: Offer the Camera FAX as a fast, standalone diagnostic service to generate extra revenue.

• Build Customer Trust: Provide professional "Before and After" reports to prove your work and justify your repair costs.

• Verify Market Origin: Instantly identify "Grey Market" imports to avoid warranty issues and illegal Wi-Fi frequencies.

• Faster Estimates: Quickly access shutter counts and internal error logs for more accurate and profitable repair quotes.

Backup and Restore Your Customer’s Settings Quickly

With the User Settings Tab, you can:

• Save time by saving the owner's custom modes and video preset settings. No User Setting is overlooked.
• Quickly restore the camera to the owner’s preferences using the saved User files, with only the date excluded.
• For Professional Advanced owners, this feature also helps prevent calibration conflicts when combined with the Standard Defaults Tab (included in the Defaults and Geographical Plugin).

⚠️ Important:  User Settings  must be saved and restored separately. User Settings are NOT part of Calibration Data or Backup Calibration.  

This feature streamlines repairs, helping you work more efficiently while boosting your productivity and profitability. 

Save & Restore Camera Calibration Settings

⚠️ Tip:  Save your Camera Data using this Calibration Tab first, even if you are planning to use the Main Board Replacement plugin.  Here’s why …

With the Calibration Data Tab, you can:

1. Replace the Main Board with a reliable Used board, if you were able to save the original Calibration data.
2. Save the calibration data before making adjustments, so you can quickly restore the camera’s original settings if needed.

⚠️  If you CAN NOT save the Original Camera Data or are installing a New Main Board, you will need to use the more extensive Main Board Replacement Plugin.

⚠️ Important:  User Settings must be saved separately. User Settings are NOT part of  Calibration Data or Backup Calibration .

The process may be complex, but using the software is simple … just follow the directions and prompts

The Fast and Simple Way to Troubleshoot

Both Static and Intermittent Problems

With Internal Error Code, you can Troubleshoot using the following tools:

1. The Last 8 Internal Error Code – The specific code for each error.
2. The Probable Cause – A likely explanation for the error.
3. The Lens on the Camera – Which lens was attached when the error occurred.
4. The Date of the Error – When the problem happened.
5. The Release Count at the Time of the Error – The camera’s usage count when the error occurred.
6. Clear the Error Codes - after you complete your repair. 

The Internal Error Code Tab is a powerful tool that will save you time and frustration, even with hard-to-pin-down intermittent problems. 

When paired with Camera FAX, the Before and After Report becomes a powerful sales tool, highlighting the results of your work and building customer trust.

The Fast and Simple Way to Troubleshoot

Both Static and Intermittent Problems

With Internal Error Code, you can Troubleshoot using the following tools:

1. The Last 8 Internal Error Code – The specific code for each error.
2. The Probable Cause – A likely explanation for the error.
3. The Lens on the Camera – Which lens was attached when the error occurred.
4. The Date of the Error – When the problem happened.
5. The Release Count at the Time of the Error – The camera’s usage count when the error occurred.
6. Clear the Error Codes - after you complete your repair. 

The Internal Error Code Tab is a powerful tool that will save you time and frustration, even with hard-to-pin-down intermittent problems. 

When paired with Camera FAX, the Before and After Report becomes a powerful sales tool, highlighting the results of your work and building customer trust.

A Quick Information Check

&

Print the Camera FAX Report

With the General Tab, you can:

1. View key camera details at a glance.
2. Read the Shutter and Release Counts.
3. Match the camera's electronic serial numbers to the case number if necessary.
4. Print the Before and After Camera FAX Report

⚠️ Important: Always use a valid Canon serial number. Entering an invalid number may cause serious issues with your camera.

Your compatible camera serves as a Test Body for your Lens Professional Software!

• You only need one Test Body to calibrate all your Canon lenses.
• The only requirement is that the Test Body has accurate and reliable autofocus.
• Lens adjustments made using the Test Body applies to all camera bodies.
• The software also lets you specify the autofocus (AF) system used by each lens.

Comparable Camera List

• EOS  1DX
• EOS  1DX Mark II
• EOS  5D Mark III
• EOS  6D
• EOS  6D Mark II
• EOS  7D Mark II
• EOS  70D
• EOS  77D, 9000D
• EOS  80D
• EOS  100D, Rebel SL1, Kiss X7
• EOS  200D, Rebel SL2, Kiss X9
• EOS  650D, Rebel T4i, Kiss X6i
• EOS  700D, Rebel T5i, Kiss X8i
• EOS  760D, Rebel T6s, 8000D
• EOS  800D, Rebel T7i, Kiss X9i

Solve Hard-to-Diagnose Temperature Related Problems

With the Temperature Plugin, you can:

1. Check and Test Key Sensors; on the Shutter, CMOS Unit and Main PCB.
2. Eliminate guesswork when diagnosing temperature sensor issues.
3. Quickly identify the source of temperature-related problems.
4. Save time and minimize frustration during repairs.

Here are a few temperature-related issues

• Soft focus on hot days – Caused by changes in Lens Flange/CMOS distance.
• Random overexposure or underexposure – Due to fluctuations in AE current.
• Dark images at high shutter speeds – Resulting from Shutter temperature changes.
• Flash malfunctions – Triggered by temperature shifts in the EF unit.

Before and After Service Reports for your Customers

Promote your business with your custom Headers and Footers

Advanced FAX adds reports from Essential and all Plugins

New Feature: Integrated Manufacture Details

Our Camera FAX now includes a comprehensive Manufacture Details section. By analyzing the serial number, the software instantly identifies:

• Production Data: Manufacturing Date, Factory, and Age.
• Market Specifics: Destination Region and Quality Class.

Why this matters:

The Destination Region is a critical tool for any professional shop. It allows you to immediately identify "Grey Market" imports. Because these units often operate on Wi-Fi frequencies that are restricted or illegal in certain countries, providing this data protects both you and your customer from legal and compatibility issues.

Professional Reporting & Revenue Growth

• Create New Income: Offer the Camera FAX as a fast, standalone diagnostic service to generate extra revenue.

• Build Customer Trust: Provide professional "Before and After" reports to prove your work and justify your repair costs.

• Verify Market Origin: Instantly identify "Grey Market" imports to avoid warranty issues and illegal Wi-Fi frequencies.

• Faster Estimates: Quickly access shutter counts and internal error logs for more accurate and profitable repair quotes.

Before and After Service Reports for your Customers

Promote your business with your custom Headers and Footers

New Feature: Integrated Manufacture Details

Our Camera FAX now includes a comprehensive Manufacture Details section. By analyzing the serial number, the software instantly identifies:

• Production Data: Manufacturing Date, Factory, and Age.
• Market Specifics: Destination Region and Quality Class.

Why this matters:

The Destination Region is a critical tool for any professional shop. It allows you to immediately identify "Grey Market" imports. Because these units often operate on Wi-Fi frequencies that are restricted or illegal in certain countries, providing this data protects both you and your customer from legal and compatibility issues.

Professional Reporting & Revenue Growth

• Create New Income: Offer the Camera FAX as a fast, standalone diagnostic service to generate extra revenue.

• Build Customer Trust: Provide professional "Before and After" reports to prove your work and justify your repair costs.

• Verify Market Origin: Instantly identify "Grey Market" imports to avoid warranty issues and illegal Wi-Fi frequencies.

• Faster Estimates: Quickly access shutter counts and internal error logs for more accurate and profitable repair quotes.

The Original Email

Dear SPT team,

I came across your software online, while searching for a solution to an autofocus problem that I have with my Canon R7 camera. When used with my Canon EF100-400 f4.5-5.6 lens (version I, not version II), it front focuses significantly. I see this in the bird photography that I do, and I confirmed it with tripod-mounted photos of a focus calibration standard. I don’t understand why this is happening, as the mirrorless cameras shouldn’t be prone to this problem. Anyway, I saw that your software allows one to adjust the autofocus of a given camera/lens combination, to ensure that the autofocus works as intended.

I am keen to find someone locally who can provide this service, but the shops that I have approached so far do not seem to be able to do so. Would you be able to advise of any camera repair shops in Australia (in Brisbane, Queensland would be ideal, but I can mail it interstate if need be) that have purchased this software from you?

If there aren’t any shops using your software locally that I can take or send this to, is the process simple enough for an intelligent person without hardware repair experience to manage? I don’t want to pull the camera apart, but if it is a software solution, potentially with an iterative process to get the optimal focus using a calibration chart, I could probably manage that.

OK, I hope you can help me out here. Manually focusing to take sharp images is becoming very annoying. 

Cheers,

Jamie Riches

The Follow Up

Hi Chuck,

By all means use the information as a testimonial. I'm happy that it worked out and I'd like others to know that it can do this as well.

So much of what I read when trying to diagnose this problem said that it was impossible, that it couldn't happen with mirrorless systems, that it was something I was doing wrong, and that companies that claimed it could happen were just trying to sell their software (that one was about Reikan).

I wish I had gotten the focus target set up earlier and just demonstrated it to my own satisfaction. The 10X increase in keepers sounds like a lot, but the lens autofocus was quite precise before - so the images were grouped nicely but almost all were too far front focussed to be good. In the end I just switched to manually focusing. I still miss some now after the adjustment, but this is for normal reasons, like focusing on a twig in front of the object. 

OK, thanks again for the software. I'm not sure if I'll need to use it again, but it was well worth purchasing just to solve this problem. 

"The autofocus calibration process was, as you said, pretty straightforward to follow."

Cheers,

Jamie

The Professional Standard

SPT JIS Screwdrivers for Lenses and Cameras:

Precision camera repair requires more than just a small screwdriver; it requires the JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) crosspoint geometry. While they look like Phillips heads at a glance, using a standard Phillips 00 or 000 on a Japanese camera is a recipe for disaster. Phillips bits are designed to "cam out" (slip out) under pressure, which leads to stripped heads and hours of frustration.

SPT JIS blades are engineered to seat deeply and securely, protecting your equipment and ensuring a perfect fit every time.

Available Precision Sizes

• 2.5mm: The heavy-duty choice for external body screws, tripod mounts, and high-torque internal chassis fasteners.
• 2.0mm: The "industry workhorse" that fits the majority of Japanese camera and lens screws perfectly.
• 1.7mm: A specialized precision bit for delicate components, such as Nikon L-series focusing lens screws.

See for yourself in these illustrations

The SPT Difference: Temper and Heritage

For decades, NIWA was the gold standard for camera tools. Since their departure from the market, technicians have struggled with rigid, "off-the-shelf" drivers that snap or chew through screw heads.

SPT has filled that gap for over 25 years. Our blades aren't just the right shape; they possess the critical temper required for camera work. They are hard enough for daily professional durability, yet specifically tempered to provide the "give" needed when encountering overtightened or factory-sealed screws.

Pro-Tip: How to Identify a JIS Screw

Before you put a driver to a fastener, look for the "Identification Mark." Most authentic JIS screws feature a single tiny dot or dimple stamped into one quadrant of the crosspoint head. If you see that dot, a standard Phillips driver will likely damage the screw. Only a JIS blade will provide the 100% surface contact required for a safe removal.

Technical Summary for Professionals

• Engineered for Canon, Nikon, Sony, and all Japanese-manufactured gear.
• Compatible with Industry Standard Niwa handles and our improved PD30 handle.
• Proven by over two decades of use in professional repair facilities worldwide.

Protect your cameras and lenses. Invest in JIS blades built for professionals.

Back to Screwdriver Blades and Handles

Solve Hard-to-Diagnose Temperature Related Problems

With the Temperature Plugin, you can:

1. Check and Test Key Sensors; the Main Temperature and CMOS Unit sensors.
2. Eliminate guesswork when diagnosing temperature sensor issues.
3. Quickly identify the source of temperature-related problems.
4. Save time and minimize frustration during repairs.

Here are a few temperature-related issues

• Soft focus on hot days – Caused by changes in Lens Flange/CMOS distance.
• Random overexposure or underexposure – Due to fluctuations in AE current.
• Dark images at high shutter speeds – Resulting from Shutter temperature changes.
• Flash malfunctions – Triggered by temperature shifts in the EF unit.

A Quick Information Check

&

Print the Camera FAX Report

With the General Tab, you can:

1. View key camera details at a glance.
2. Read the Shutter and Release Counts.
3. Match the camera's electronic serial numbers to the case number if necessary.
4. Print the Before and After Camera FAX Report

⚠️ Important: Always use a valid Canon serial number. Entering an invalid number may cause serious issues with your camera.

Solve Hard-to-Diagnose Temperature Related Problems

With the Temperature Plugin, you can:

1. Check and Test Key Sensors; on the Shutter, CMOS, Main PCB, and TFT Display Cover.
2. Eliminate guesswork when diagnosing temperature sensor issues.
3. Quickly identify the source of temperature-related problems.
4. Save time and minimize frustration during repairs.

Here are a few temperature-related issues

• Soft focus on hot days – Caused by changes in Lens Flange/CMOS distance.
• Random overexposure or underexposure – Due to fluctuations in AE current.
• Dark images at high shutter speeds – Resulting from Shutter temperature changes.
• Flash malfunctions – Triggered by temperature shifts in the EF unit.

Mirrorless AF Realities: A Photographer’s Unedited Review

From .. “I was told it was Impossible”  … “How glad I am that I purchased the software”

Adjusts both Lens and Lens + Extender

With the Lens Focus Calibration Plugin, you can:

1. Offer a standalone Auto Focus Adjustment Service to address common autofocus issues.
2. Pair your customers lens to their camera body for optimized autofocus.
3. Adjust both Prime (fixed focal length) and Zoom lenses for precision performance.
4. Adjust both Wide and Telephoto settings on Zoom lenses.
5. Adjust AF for Lenses used with Extenders
6. Register up to 7 lenses to the camera body for streamlined operation.
7. Add or remove lenses as needed, allowing for flexible customization.
8. View a color-coded list of lenses, including those that are Registered but not attached, Attached but not yet Registered, and Currently attached and Registered for quick and efficient management.

Sharper Auto Focus

Soft autofocus is a common complaint among mirrorless camera owners. Many photographers find that while some lenses focus perfectly, others may front- or back-focus on the same camera body, producing soft images.

This isn’t a flaw in the camera or the lens — it’s the result of that specific lens–body combination.

With the Auto Focus Calibration Plugin, you can easily fine-tune each lens to the customer’s camera body, restoring sharp, accurate focus. The process is simple and efficient — just the camera, lens, and the standard 3D target included with the software.

This plugin offers a fast, effective way to expand your service capabilities and deliver precision results that customers can see.

New: Many users noticed that images were perfectly sharp without an extender but softened when one was attached. The latest Pro Advanced upgrade now solves this by allowing separate AF adjustments for each setup — with and without extenders.

A Quick Information Check

&

Print the Camera FAX Report

With the General Tab, you can:

1. View key camera details at a glance.
2. Read the Shutter and Release Counts.
3. Match the camera's electronic serial numbers to the case number if necessary.
4. Print the Before and After Camera FAX Report

⚠️ Important: Always use a valid Canon serial number. Entering an invalid number may cause serious issues with your camera.