This page provides information on the Physical camera attributes.
Overview
The V-Ray Physical Camera uses real-world camera settings such as f-stop, focal length, and shutter speed to set up the virtual CG camera. It also makes it easier to use light sources with real-world illumination, such as V-Ray lights with physical units or V-Ray Sun and Sky.
General
Still cam – Simulates a still photo camera with a regular shutter.
Movie cam – Simulates a motion-picture camera with a circular shutter.
Video cam – Simulates a shutter-less video camera with a CCD matrix.
Sensor and Lens
Specify Field of View – When enabled, sets the field of view directly without having to set up the film gate and focal length.
Field of View – Specifies the field of view in degrees.
Film Gate (mm) – Specifies the horizontal size of the film gate in millimeters. Note that this setting takes into account the system units configuration to produce the correct result. Vertical film gate size is calculated by accounting image aspect ratio (vertical film size = horizontal film size / aspect ratio).
Focal Length (mm) – Specifies the equivalent focal length of the camera lens. This setting takes into account the system units configuration to produce the correct result.
Zoom Factor – Specifies a zoom factor. Values greater than 1.0 zoom into the image; values smaller than 1.0 zoom out. This is similar to a blow-up rendering of the image.
Aperture
Film Speed (ISO) – Determines the film power (i.e. sensitivity). Smaller values make the image darker, while larger values make it brighter.
F-Number – Determines the width of the camera aperture and, indirectly, exposure. If the Exposure option is checked, changing the f-number will affect the image brightness.
Shutter Speed (s^-1) – Specifies the shutter speed, in inverse seconds, for the still photographic camera. For example, shutter speed of 1/30 s corresponds to a value of 30 for this parameter.
Shutter Angle – Specifies the shutter angle (in degrees) for the movie camera.
Shutter Offset – Specifies the shutter offset (in degrees) for the movie camera.
Latency (s) – Specifies the CCD matrix latency (in seconds) when the camera mode is set to Video cam.
Depth of Field
Enabled – Enables the depth of field effect. Note that depth of field depends on the Focus distance and F-Number parameters.
Specify Focus – Enables manual set up of the focus distance.
Focus Distance – If enabled, specifies the distance at which objects are in focus.
Bokeh Effects
Aperture Shape – Defines the shape of the camera aperture. When disabled, a perfectly circular aperture is simulated. When enabled, a polygonal aperture is simulated, with the specified number of blades.
Blades Number – Specifies the number of blades of the aperture.
Rotation – Rotates the blades (value in degrees).
Center Bias – Defines a bias shape for the bokeh effects. Positive values make the outer edge of the bokeh effects brighter; negative values make the center of the effect brighter.
Anisotropy – Allows stretching of the bokeh effect horizontally or vertically to simulate anamorphic lenses. If you want the ratio of height to width of the bokeh to be k:1, then the value for anisotropy should be sqrt(1/k)-1. For example, for anamorphic bokeh, which is 2.39:1, the anisotropy value should be -0.353.
Optical Vignetting – Controls the strength of the optical vignetting, also known as and cat's eye vignetting. This effect is due to the fact that the shape of the bokeh highlights resembles the shape of the aperture. As the distance to the optical axis increases, the bokeh highlights are progressively narrowed and begin to resemble the shape of a cat's eye. The larger the distance from the image center, the narrower the cat's eye becomes. Optical vignetting tends to be stronger in wide angle lenses and large aperture lenses, but the effect can be noticed with most photographic lenses.
Optical vignetting is currently very slow to calculate; it may introduce noise in the image that is difficult to clean.
Bitmap Aperture
Enabled – Enables the use of an image (specified in the field below) to control the aperture shape as well as any dirt or scratches that may affect the bokeh. White signifies transparent areas and black signifies opaque areas.
File – Specifies the image file.
Bitmap Resolution – Specifies the sampling texture resolution when calculating the bokeh effects.
Affect Exposure – When enabled, the bokeh effects affect the overall exposure of the image.