Camera calibration

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More articles will be added to this section over time.

If you are looking for guidance the official Metashape user manual already covers well, please consult that first — see the official documentation.

Articles

• EXIF focal length: which tags Metashape reads, and the no-crop-factor rule
• sensor.calibration vs sensor.user_calib
• Fisheye and spherical sensors: the five projection types
• Metashape's distortion model and converting to OpenCV / Colmap
• Rolling-shutter compensation: Regularized vs Full
• Calibration groups: programmatic management in Python
• Programmatic calibration import / export
• Declaring a fixed-geometry multi-camera rig in Python
• Choosing the master sensor in a multi-camera layout
• The slave-sensor transform: composition rule, axis convention, and recipes
• Multispectral imaging: per-file band declaration and master-band change
• Transferring camera orientation between modalities (RGB → thermal)