Camera and White Balance questions

[zaar]

Hi!

Am I getting this right? Corona ignores WB setting of PhysCamera? IR starts over as if there was a change, but nothing changes. If it's not supported could we please have an option in Tone Mapping like Photographic Exposure, to also use WB settings from the Camera? I have cameras in different places :)

BTW, I noticed Corona Camera doesn't have focus breathing? (or I can't find it)
It also doesn't let you enter or see exposure in EVs which is a con for me. I don't think I'll ever convince anyone here how useful it is. But trust me, I've worked as a photographer professionally on the side of 3d for over 15 years - it's not that I don't know how to set a camera in manual mode. Mine is parked in manual mode.

[James Vella]

You can use it if you enable Physical Camera Exposure in Environment & Effects (hotkey is 8).

Then you can set exposure and white balance per camera.

[zaar]

That didn't work for me at first. And this is way I'm so confused, because I though this was always possible.
Turns out that in my Tone Mapping stack, I had a tint operator, but it was "old" or something (from a template file that predates corona 8 probably and definitely 9-10), and didn't even look like yours. Reset tone mapping, added photographic and tint and now it works! So a huge thanks!!!!

[James Vella]

Glad to hear it! Have fun.

[maru]

We generally advise to use the Corona Camera rather than the 3ds Max native Physical Camera.
Please see: https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/12702743993745-Rendering-from-Max-Physical-Camera-with-Exposure-control

[pokoy]

You can use it if you enable Physical Camera Exposure in Environment & Effects (hotkey is 8).

Then you can set exposure and white balance per camera.

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Do NOT use the exposure setting form that dialog, depending on what you use there it can seriously limit the dynamic range of your image. If you need to use it for the viewport preview, that's ok but don't enable these for rendering with Corona. All you need is within either the Corona Cam object or the Corona VFB.

[James Vella]

I personally use the VFB, I just gave the OP a suggestion so he can use the workflow he prefers. Each to his own