Camera Settings

In this article we will explore various Zivid camera settings. This includes settings to control exposure and light patterns, various correction and removal filters, and color image settings.

To learn more about how to use the camera settings please follow the tutorial Capturing High Quality Point Clouds.

If you are unfamiliar with the concept of stops, or how a camera measures light, we recommend that you read these articles first:

• Introduction to Stops

• Detectable Light Intensity in a Camera Capture

More information about the settings are found in the following sections:

• Vision Engine
  • Introduction
  • Phase Engine
  • Stripe Engine
  • Further reading
  • Version History
• Acquisition Settings
  • Exposure Time
  • Aperture
  • Projector Brightness
  • Gain

• Processing Settings
  • Removal filters
    • Noise Filter
    • Outlier Filter
    • Reflection Filter
    • Contrast Distortion Filter
  • Correction filters
    • Gaussian Smoothing
    • Contrast Distortion Filter
  • Color settings
    • Color Balance
    • Gamma
    • Tone Mapping

• Diagnostics

Further reading

You may want to check the Default Settings for your Zivid camera.

If you are using Zivid Two camera, you may want to check Standard Acquisition Settings for Zivid Two to see Settings presets that provide good 3D point clouds for different scenes.

To learn more about the Zivid camera settings, continue to Vision Engine.