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Understanding camera sensor and optics parameters

Understanding camera sensor and optics parameters - Maxwell Render Tutorial

From the course: Maxwell Render Essential Training

Understanding camera sensor and optics parameters

- [Instructor] Picking up where we left off in the previous lesson, we'll now look at the camera's sensor and optics parameters. From the camera's parameters, go ahead and collapse the coordinates section. We'll start by looking at the camera sensor parameters. The film back of a camera is the physical width and height of a digital camera's sensor, or, if you are still using a film camera, the width and height of the film. You have available to you a film back dropdown, providing a list of common camera presets. Selecting a camera from this list will change the film back parameters to correspond to the physical size of the digital sensor or the film in that specific camera model. A good time to make use of this is if you intended to composite your render into a photo that you have taken with that specific camera model. Of course, if you know the camera's sensor or film size, you could set those manually as well. The resolution is the final resolution that you want to render your scene…

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