The camera is an object which defines a point of view in 3D space for the context of rendering. The camera also has settings for depth of field (DoF) and other effects/settings real cameras have.
Camera documentation on the Blender Manual
Questions tagged [camera]
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How can I make a camera the active one?
I have multiple cameras in a scene. What I want to do is to change which one is active. This way I can view the scene from different angles. How would I do this?
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Rendered aspect ratio different from the viewport's camera view
Why would there be a difference in aspect ratio between a rendered image, and the camera perspective in the viewport? My render is getting squashed to fit a different aspect ratio.
Here is a scene with a circle and emission shader.
Camera…
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How to change the camera from Landscape to Portrait
I need a way to render a picture that is longer heighth-wise than width-wise.
Changing the scale of the camera does nothing. I've been told to look in the scene focus settings, and I didn't see anything.
Is there a way to change the shape of the…
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Why were default camera settings changed in Blender 2.8?
Default settings:
v2.79:
Lens 35mm, Sensor 32mm
v2.8:
Lens 50mm, Sensor 36mm
Just out of curiousity what is the reason for that change?
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No camera found in blender
When I open Blender, I usually see a lamp and a cube, but when I opened a minecraft rig .blend, it wasn't there. I tried using Alt+H, but it didn't do anything.
I clicked something that I can't remember, and it said no camera found.
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Relationship between the sensor size and focal length
When i go to the camera values in the datablocks, I can change all the camera parameters:
Horizontal/Vertical FOV and the Focal Length and Sensor Size.
When I update the Horizontal or Vertical FOV, the Focal Length gets updated correctly.
When I…
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How do I achieve the traditional 3/4 perspective of JRPGs using the camera?
first a bit of background. I am primarily a pixel artist, and I tend to work in the 3/4 perspective usually seen in old SNES-era games, like so:
That's something I pixeled up. Now, I'm trying to achieve a similar effect in Blender, to create a…
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camera settings to imitate my camera
Well, I want to imitate the same camera settings in blender as in photograph that I have taken, in order to edit rendered stills into the same picture I have captured. However I'm having trouble setting up the camera in blender to simulate my…
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Can you change the color of camera composition lines?
Sometimes, its hard to see the composition lines with white objects in the background. I know it is probably in the themes in the settings I just can't find it.
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Precision of Z-coordinate
Setup (reworked):
Camera position: (0, -6, 6);
Camera angles: (45, 0, 0) (zyx rotation sequence);
Camera resolution: X=64 [px]; Y=64[px];
Sensor sizes: 32 [mm] x 32 [mm];
=> px_per_mm: 2 [px/mm];
Focal length: 35…
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Understanding Fisheye
I set up a basic scene with a fisheye camera aimed at a sphere, with another sphere vertically above the camera, and another to the right (all three at the same distance):
(Note: Need that top pulldown on "Cycles Render")
Result is:
Now, I'm…
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What are the units for camera shift?
I'm having trouble making sense of the units of a camera lens shift. It ranges from -2,2, defaulting to 0, but it doesn't seem to be in scene units, nor does it seem to be in radians.
Anyone have an idea what the values represent?
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Each camera may always keep the same resolution?
I have an object with different cameras that these have different resolutions, but every time I make a render, the camera has changed the resolution of the previous camera, is it possible that this does not change the resolution?
thanks
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Blender rendering only one frame, not whole animation
I am trying to render a short animation. It plays as it should in the render preview, but when I render it the only thing displayed is a single frame. I am not using multiple cameras (only one), and I have my only camera set as the active camera.…
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How to make fisheye lens for camera
I recently started using blender 2.82. I'm able to tweak and modify the settings of shading and modeling for material. I'm thinking of animating a scene using the vision of fisheye lens, can anyone help me with the camera settings for this case.
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